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Re:Synergy-core: Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard a... by dperfect on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:54PM (#17357825)
That's been my experience also. It's kind of surprising given that I was able to replicate 90% of the functionality (that I normally use) for a Raspberry Pi project using only netevent[1] and netcat. Obviously cross-platform and international support (+ handling edge cases) would complicate things, but even in the most basic scenarios, Synergy has been terribly unreliable for me lately.

[1] https://github.com/Blub/netevent

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Re:Synergy-core: Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard a... by megous on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:17PM (#17359347)
I thought of using something like this for switching input devices between 4 of my computers that have some kind of desktop interface. Out of desire for much better robustness I opted for a 4-way physical USB switch instead. Extremely cheap, and works even in u-boot, during early boot for FDE password entry, etc. Also has a clear visual indication of apushed in button of where the input is connected atm.
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