User Control Interface (UCI) Design Overview

The Q-SYS UCI provides a means by which a user can control defined parts of a Q-SYS design via a networked device such as the Q-SYS touchscreen controller (TSC) panel, Windows-based PC, Apple iOS device, and others. The UCI is created in Q-SYS Designer, and has one or more pages that can contain controls, indicators, and graphic objects dragged in from the Schematic. Graphic objects and images can also be inserted directly into UCI pages by dragging and dropping, or copying and pasting from other applications (Not all applications support both methods.).

You can deploy and view a UCI on several device types and viewers, including Q-SYS touchscreen controllers, UCI Viewer App (Windows), Q-SYS Control App (iOS), and Status/Control (UCI Viewer) in Designer. See Deploying User Control Interfaces. You can control access to individual UCIs with Q-SYS Core Manager.

Note: The deployment of a UCI is a licensed feature on certain Cores manufactured with Q-SYS 7.0 and later. For more information, see Licensing.

UCI Customization

As UCIs are completely customizable, after adding a UCI to the design, you can then add controls, guidelines, images, navigation, layers, pages, graphics, and deploy your UCI design.

UCI Styles

UCI Styles make it easy to apply the same style to multiple UCI elements. It also allows for UCI design uniformity throughout an organization, since the same styles can be used for multiple designs.

Q-SYS CSS Class Reference

You can install available CSS classes and their intended uses for UCI styles provided by QSC.

Remap UCI Controls [BETA]

Remap UCI Controls tool to easily reassign the control IDs for multiple UCI controls in a single click.

Relink UCI Controls [BETA]

Relink UCI Controls tool to easily reassign the control IDs for multiple UCI controls in a single click.

Import and Export UCIs

Import and export UCIs to facilitate easy sharing between system designers.

Update UCI From Bundle

Use Update UCI from Bundle when you want to update an existing UCI with something you previously created and exported from another computer.

Media Display

The Media Display feature supports live video preview from Q-SYS cameras within a UCI on supported Q-SYS devices, as well as the display of JSON-encoded URL image content within a UCI.

UCI Controller [BETA]

UCI Controller is a UCI design feature that is an alternative method of building UCIs.

TSC Inventory Status Screen

The TSC Inventory Status details the functions available on the TSC hardware Inventory Status page.