DataPort Out
The DataPort component is the Q-SYS Designer virtual component representing the DataPort card. DataPort cards can be installed in a Core or an I/O Frame. (For more information, refer to the Core and I/O Frame User Guides.) The Q-SYS Designer design must match the physical hardware. The DataPort card provides control capability for connected amplifiers and loudspeakers. The controls for the amplifiers and loudspeakers are found in their corresponding control panels, not the DataPort control panel. The DataPort card:
- Works only with QSC DataPort amplifiers in a Q-SYS system.
- Converts the audio signal from digital to analog for the amplifier/loudspeakers, and analog to digital for audio monitoring.
- For QSC DataPort amplifiers, provides:
- Four audio channels, two from each connector,
- Telemetry (remote monitoring of critical parameters), including: status for protection, clipping, temperature, voltage, current, power, headroom, and open or shorted conditions on the outputs,
- Standby/normal power control and status,
- Gain and Mute functions,
- Input signal presence status.
- For QSC loudspeakers connected to QSC DataPort amplifiers, Q-SYS provides:
- Intrinsic Correction™
- Telemetry, including: temperature, voltage, current, impedance, peak level, limiter reduction, and power compression.
- Pilot Tone, including: enable for low and high and impedance for each.
Note: DataPorts on multi-port amplifiers must be wired to DataPorts on the same I/O Frame or Core. You cannot wire some of the amplifier's DataPorts to a Core and others, on the same amplifier, to an I/O Frame. You cannot wire some of the amplifier's DataPorts to one I/O Frame and others, on the same amplifier, to another I/O Frame.
Type 2 Hardware 
Type 2 hardware provides new cables and connectors between the I/O cards and main boards in Cores and I/O Frames. Due to this change, the Type 2 hardware is not physically compatible with the older hardware. You can still integrate the new I/O Frames and Cores in the same system with older hardware, but the I/O cards are not interchangeable. Type 2 hardware can be identified by a yellow label on the back of the Core and I/O Frame, and the bottom of the I/O cards.