Status (Core)

Name

Identifies the Core component in Q-SYS Designer, enabling the connection between the design and the physical Core. This name must be the same as the name (hostname Hostnames may contain ASCII letters 'a' through 'z' (case-insensitive), the digits '0' through '9', the hyphen, and the underscore. Hostname labels cannot begin or end with a hyphen. No other symbols, punctuation characters, or blank spaces are permitted.) in Q-SYS Core Manager > Network > Basic.

The name must follow standard naming conventions, restricted to the following:

ASCII characters a - z, A-Z (case insensitive)

Digits 0 - 9

Hyphen (cannot be at the beginning or end of the name)

Underscore (acceptable with a Q-SYS implementation)

No other characters, symbols, punctuation, or blank spaces.

When you have entered the Name, it displays next to the Core icon in the left-side pane.

Note: When you use Telnet or third-party external control you must enter the Name exactly as it is entered here.

Location

The Location is a means by which you can organize your virtual equipment to correspond to your physical equipment.

For example, the Core may be in Rack 1.

1. Click in the Location property; the " Default Location" is highlighted.
2. Type the name of the new location. Once you have entered the new Location name, it is available on the pull-down for the Location property for other Inventory devices.

When you have given the location a name, the Core is now displayed under the new location. Any other equipment you identify as being in that location display under that location.

Model

Select your Q-SYS Core processor model.

Is Redundant

If you have redundant Cores in the installation select Yes, otherwise, leave it as No.

Note: The NV-32-H (Core Capable) does not support Core Redundancy.

Backup Name

This property displays when you set Is Redundant to Yes. Same requirements as the primary Core Name.

Telephone Country

Select the country in which the telephone service resides.

I/O Slot

Identifies the type of I/O card installed in the physical Core.

After you make your selection, the I/O card displays under the Core in the Inventory list.

The number of I/O Slots varies depending on the Core Model.

SRC Disabled (AES3)

When an AES3 In / Out or AES3 16-channel In card is selected for the I/O Slot Property, you have the ability to disable or enable the AES3 Sample Rate Conversion.

Maximum DSP

When this is set to the default (Yes) the Core operates normally (same in earlier releases of Q-SYS).

When this is set to No, the Core has the following changes:

• ½ DSP Power
• Category 1 Signal Processing only
• No Category 2 Signal Processing
• No AEC/NFC
• 2x non-audio system processing
• 2x Media Stream Receivers. See the Media Stream Receiver topic to see the maximum allowed for your Core model.
• More overhead (unmeasured) for audio file players, etc.

Sample Rate

Selects the sample rate. Typically, 48kHz is used as the Sample Rate. In scenarios where Q-SYS is externally synchronized to a (video) house sync signal you would use 48kHz Pull Down as the Sample Rate.

Clock Source

The AES3-1 and AES3-2 options display when you have an AES3 In / Out card selected for the Core I/O slot. When you have an AES3 16-channel In card selected, only the AES3-1 option is available. Use these options to sync to an external AES3 signal. The AES3 selections require either regular AES3 or AES3 black. The clock should be connected to the AES3 card either connector Channel 1/2 In, or Channel 3/4 In.

The GPIO selections require an external TTL level word clock or a GPS connection: pin 3 is signal, pin 8 is ground. When you select GPIO A-1 or GPIO B-1 as the clock source, the respective GPIO 1 Property changes to "Input used as clock source". The clock source should be connected to pin 3 of the respective GPIO connector - either GPIO A or GPIO B.

Note: Typically, Internal is used as the clock source. Only if there is a need to synchronize the Q-SYS system to an external clock would you use GPIO or AES3. You would use GPIO if the external clock signal is a word clock or GPS. You would use AES3 if the external clock signal is an AES3 signal. Often an AES3 signal without audio is used to reduce the clock jitter. This signal is called AES3 black.

Clock Source

The GPIO selection requires an external TTL level word clock or a GPS connection: pin 1 is signal, ground in is indicated by the ground symbol on either end of the connector. When you select GPIO In Pin 1 as the clock source, GPIO Pin 1 is no longer displayed. The clock source should be connected to pin 1 of the GPIO connector.

Clock Type

When the Clock Source is set to a GPIO pin, the Clock Type field is available.

Baud Rate

If a GPS clock type is selected, you can specify the baud rate based on your connected clock's requirements.

• For 1PPS clocks, the default baud rate is 4800.
• For 5PPS clocks, the default baud rate is 19200.

ID

When the ID/Identify button, in the Q-SYS Designer Status component, or the Configurator's Network Configuration for the hardware, or on the physical hardware is pressed, the ID buttons in the Configurator and Status component flash, and the LCD on the physical Hardware flashes to indicate the association between the three.

The indicators will flash for 5 minutes unless you stop them by pressing any one of the buttons.

Status LED

This LED changes color to indicate the current status of the Core. See Status for the meanings of the various colors.

Status

Component status is conveyed with the Status LED and Status box, which uses both color and text to indicate the current condition:

• OK: The device is functioning normally.
• Initializing: The device is in the process of a firmware or configuration update, or the design is starting.
• Compromised: The device is functioning, but a non-fatal problem exists. Refer to the Status box for details.
• Missing: The device cannot be discovered.
• Fault: The device is malfunctioning or is not properly configured. Refer to the Status box for details.
• Unknown: This status appears during a Core reboot (for example, during a firmware update), or when a design is being uploaded to the Core and before it has started running.
• Not Present: If applicable to the device, this status appears when the device is not connected to the network and its Is Required component property is set to 'No'. This status also appears if the device component's Dynamically Paired property is set to 'Yes', pairing has not been assigned in Core Manager, and the device component's Is Required property is set to 'Yes'. See Dynamic Pairing.

External Clock

The Clock Source in the Core's Properties must NOT be set to Internal. The External Clock illuminates if the Core receives a valid external word clock or AES3 signal. (Not available on Core 5200)

External Frequency

The Clock Source in the Core's Properties must NOT be set to Internal. The frequency of the clock sync connected to GPIO. This is usually 48000 (+- a few samples). If you are using GPS sync it will be either 5 (for 5pps) or 1 (for 1pps) (Not available on Core 5200)

External Lock

The Clock Source in the Core's Properties must NOT be set to Internal. The External Lock illuminates if the Core is able to successfully synchronize to the external clock signal. (Not available on Core 5200)

Clock Master

LED indicating if the Core is the Master Clock for the Q-SYS system or not. The Core can be the Master Clock even if the clock is synchronized to an external clock.

Clock Offset

Indicates how much of an offset exists, in microseconds, between this Core and the Master Clock. If this Core is the Master Clock, the offset is zero.

Grandmaster

Displays either the Q-SYS Core processor name or the PTP Clock GUID. Note that:

• There can only be one Grandmaster for a Q-SYS design (for all LAN interfaces of the device). It is possible for Q-SYS to resolve to a PTP Grandmaster present on LAN B, if enabled and present.

• If available, the Core Name is displayed instead of the raw PTP clock GUID. (The Core Name is not available in some clocking topologies – for example, when a higher priority boundary clock between systems is present or with some Software Dante configurations, as when the Core syncs indirectly to another device via Software Dante’s boundary clock.)

• A PTP Clock GUID can look similar to a MAC address, but is not the same and may not be related to a device’s actual MAC address.

• If the PTP Clock GUID is derived from a MAC address (whether a Q-SYS Core processor or third-party device), it can be any MAC address on that device (any LAN interface, including those without a network connection).

Parent Port

The device and interface name that this device is syncing to when it's not the clock master. Usually it is the same as the Grandmaster name.

Processor Temp

The current temperature, in Celsius, of the Core processor.

Processor Fan

The current speed of the processor fan in RPM. The speed varies based on the temperature. Not all Cores have this field.

Chassis Temp

The current temperature, in Celsius, of the Core chassis.

Chassis Fan

The current speed of the chassis fan in RPM. The speed varies based on the temperature.

Memory Usage

The percentage of memory used.

Compute Usage [BETA]

Indicates the percentage of processor CPU usage devoted to a particular category:

• Control Compute Usage [BETA]: The percentage of non-DSP, control-only CPU usage.

• Network Compute Usage [BETA]: The percentage of CPU usage for processing network traffic.

• Process Compute Usage [BETA]: The percentage of CPU usage for DSP, both Category 1 and Category 2 processing.

• Lua Compute Usage [BETA]: The percentage of CPU usage for script processing.

Note: These are BETA controls. Though functional, they are not feature complete and must not be relied upon in production environments.

Audio File Sync

Text field indicating whether or not the audio files on the inactive Core, of a redundant pair, are in sync with the active Core.

Details

You must set Verbose to Yes in the Properties for this field to display.

Text indicating the Details of any errors occurring with the Core. The information in this field is updated regularly and is cumulative. None of the items listed below display unless there is a value associated with it. If there are values associated with these, call Support.

Active

Identifies which Core is currently Active

Standby

Lights if the Core is in Standby mode. When the Core is booting, this LED is lit.

Go Active

Click this button to force the inactive Core to become Active. ¹

Audio 1 and Audio 2

(audio processing time – microseconds)

Contains the following information when the count is not zero:

• current
• minimum
• average
• maximum
• lat_current
• lat_minimum
• lat_average
• periods
• overruns
• timeouts

Reset

Resets the statistics in the Audio and Network fields.

While the Reset button resets all entries in both fields, the average, periods, and overruns are the most noticeable.

Connection

Green LED indicating that the USB Out component is connected to a computer.

USB Speed

Speed of the USB Connection. For example: High (2.0)

Active

Green LED indicating that signal is streaming.

More button

Click to show or hide the details listed below. (Samples, SRC+, SRC-)

Samples

Total number of samples since the audio started, or since the count has been reset.

SRC+

The number of samples added in order to match the USB clock with the Q-SYS PTP clock

SRC-

The number of samples removed in order to match the USB clock with the Q-SYS PTP clock

Aux Power Active

0

1

false

true

0

1

Core Status

0

1

2

3

4

5

OK (Green)

Compromised (Orange)

Fault (Red)

Not Present (Gray)

Missing (Red)

Initializing (Blue)

-

CPU Temperature

n.n

Fan 1, 2 RPM

n

n

-

I/O Temperature

n.n

Identify

0

1

false

true

0

1

Network Clock Grandmaster Name

(text)

Network Clock Master

0

1

false

true

0

1

Network Clock Offset from Master

Network Clock Parent Port Name

(text)

PoE < 90w

0

1

false

true

0

1

PoE = 90w

0

1

false

true

0

1

VPU Temperature

Active

0

1

false

true

0

1

Go Active

0

1

false

true

0

1

Standby

0

1

false

true

0

1

RPM

4-digit number

text

N/ A

Audio 1

Text box with statistics on the audio on network 1

Audio 2

Text box with statistics on the audio on network 2

Reset

trigger

Audio File Sync

Text box with information regarding syncing audio files between redundant Cores

Chassis Temperature

Text box displaying the internal temperature of the Core in Centigrade.

Core Status

0

1

2

3

4

OK (green)

Compromised (orange)

Fault (red)

Unknown (red)

Updating (blue)

0

0.250

0.500

0.750

1.00

External Clock

(clock must not be internal)

0

1

false

true

0

1

External Clock Frequency

(clock must not be internal)

External Lock

(clock must not be internal)

0

1

false

true

0

1

Identify

0

1

false

true

0

1

Text

0 to 100%

Text box indicating the network name of the Network Clock Grandmaster

Network Clock Master

0

1

false

true

0

1

Network Clock Offset From Master

–

0 ms to n ms

–

Network Clock Parent Port Name

Text box indicating the network name of the Parent port, usually the same as the Network Clock Grandmaster with the LAN appended.

Processor Fan RPM

4-digit number

text

N/ A

Processor Temperature

Text box displaying the temperature of the Core's processor in Centigrade.