kvm KVM over IP

[FryGuy]

I used to have my PC in my spare room/office on my desk. I recently placed it in my living room and bought a lapboard and some wireless peripherals to enjoy some gaming. Now there is a monitor, keyboard and mouse on my desk with no PC.

 

I am looking for a solution to be able to use those peripherals over IP to still control my living room PC, currently hardwired to my network via wall plate. I have wall plate's throughout my house and a rudimentary network put together with a wireless router(on office desk) and 8 port switch(in basement) leading to the wall plates. No racks. Yet. Maybe. My monitor is an ASUS PG278QR but I'm willing to under utilize its capabilities if an affordable solution can't be found. My desk has my laser scanner/copier as well so I do most of my home tasks at the desk.  I have seen rack mounted KVM over IP devices and other KVMs made for 2 PCs and 1 set of peripherals, but I can't seem to zero in one one for my situation.

 

Anybody have a similar situation?

 

P.S. Long time LTT viewer, first forum post. Keep up the great content.

[ramava]

KVMs are designed to work the other way round. One keyboard, monitor & mouse with multiple computers. I know there are some solutions for running display signal and USB through the walls, but they can be *really* expensive if you're going very far. But I also don't know of any convenient way to do that except as a second monitor that's always on. There are physical switches for different types of video signals, but you'd have to go hit it in the living room before using the computer in the office.

 

My first thought was maybe something with Remote Desktop, but that would require you to have some kind of minimal device there in the office. That may still be cheaper though, putting in a super cheap PC that's just intended to work with the better one remotely. That would also allow you to print for sure to the printer in the officer, but I haven't played with any of the Remote Desktop solutions recently enough to know if there's an easy way to make the scanner work, except only locally on the cheap PC in the office.

 

There may still be something out there, but that covers all the related solutions I'm familiar with.

[FryGuy]

@ramava I suppose if I'm willing to pay for a somewhat enterprise focused solution, I could just look into a daily driver laptop with a dock of some sort.