How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k monitors

Re:How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k m... by adrianpike on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:46PM (#24358540)

It can be, eBay has HDMI physical switches for like $8. Your computers will see it as a monitor unplug, though, and do fun things with adjusting windows/icons/resolutions, and then have to re-handshake on every switch. Not a blocker, just a pain.

I'm also not 100% sure if it'll freak HDCP out.

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Re:How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k m... by 8ytecoder on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:04PM (#24359233)

I bought a HDMI switch and a USB switch. Total cost was under $30. I now have to press two buttons instead of one but that's about it. However, I don't know how to scale that for two monitors. I prefer a single monitor setup so it works for me.

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Re:How I built a keyboard/video/mouse switch for my two 4k m... by fock on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:19AM (#24362229)

iirc most of this switches (and cheap chinese capture cards) work around this problem by "breaking" HDCP. Problem solved.

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