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Wil 54
By Wil 54
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Hello,

 

I wasn’t sure where to post this but I need a bit of help on setting up my workstation. Ever since working from home started, I’ve been having trouble getting my workstation into a convenient setup. Right now, I’ve been plugging and unplugging my monitor and peripherals every time I switch between computers and after two months it has gotten really old. So long story short, I have a work laptop, a personal laptop and a personal desktop that all link to the same 27 in monitor. I have a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. I want to set it up so that I can switch between each of my computers with a push of a button. Does anyone have any recommendations on how I can get this working the way I want it to and what I would need?

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15 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

The search term you are looking for it HDMI switcher. You would still have to plug KB and mouse in manually tho.

or the better that does that automatically is a KVM.

what display connector are you using?

 

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9 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

or the better that does that automatically is a KVM.

what display connector are you using?

 

HDMI for the laptops. DisplayPort for the desktop. 

 

Edit: Any product recommendations? A lot of the ones I’m coming across appear to be VGA and/or only controls 2 computers.

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9 hours ago, BlueScope819 said:

The search term you are looking for it HDMI switcher. You would still have to plug KB and mouse in manually tho.

A usb kvm would work tho

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