Multi-Room kvm?

[DragonJT]

Budget: $1000: 

Country: US

I plan to have a rack pc in a network room, i want to use this to game on or do work on in the office, my goal is to somehow be able to switch inputs and display depending on what room I am in

(Ex: working in office, then go to living room and use TV as display with seprate keyboard and mouse for gaming)

Ideally 1440p@144hz would be ideal

 

I know KVM and HDBaseT devices exist, but not sure what to look for or what I would need to accomplish this.

 

(First post, so thanks in advance for any help)

 

[manikyath]

KVM switch is not what you're looking for.

 

as for HDbaseT, that's essentially only usable for signage for latency reasons.

 

besides that, i'd just like to express that this is a very expensive endavour, and not necessarily a very smooth experience. if only one of the positions actually needs gaming performance, putting mini computers on each other spot might actually end up cheaper.

 

having defined that, there's essentially two ways to achieve this:

- have some sort of thunderbolt/USB4 type of cable with a dock at each position to provide USB, display, and audio.

- have "just long-ass cables", depending on exact length either something high quality, or active/fiber cables. running display to each position, and running USB for peripherals and an audio interface.

 

for all of this, ideally you have either identical display setups at each position, or use displayport displays that'll disconnect when turned off.

[adm0n]

A super cheap way of achieving this almost, is streaming your display signal. This would mean you need some form of client on the other end though. So either a laptop or some mini pc. Just a heads up, the more frames you are adding to the stream, the higher the latency becomes. So it depends on your encoding device if it actually makes sense to stream 144hz. I haven't experimented with this all that much though. So you'll have to research that on your own.