Hello all, I’m looking for a switch/kvm for my home setup. ive been through a few tries and none of them have worked for one reason or another.

I have two machines,

A windows 11 work laptop

  • USB-C out, both USB and display port.
  • HDMI out
  • USB 2.0 out

A Ubuntu based personal server

  • Displayport out
  • USB-C out (no Displayport)

For displays, I have a single double wide 4k monitor

Additionally I have a USB-C hub all my peripherals are connected to.

  • turtle@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 天前

    I picked up one of these ugreen displayport KVMs a couple months ago and so far have been happy with it:

    https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Displayport-Support-Monitor-Keyboard/dp/B0CFFFHFJT

    The only issue I have had is that if I’m switched to computer B and computer A goes to sleep, I cannot wake it up through the switch. This was not a deal breaker for me because I have easy access to the power button of both computers. I wonder if this issue may be resolved by powering the switch with a USB-C power plug, since it otherwise requires USB power from both computer connections.

    • zamithal@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      1 天前

      Awesome :) does the input support display port over usb-c or will i need an hdmi to displayport adapter for the windows laptop?

      • Nach [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 天前

        I’m using this as well and came in to recommend it. One machine is thunderbolt to DP. One is DP to DP. Both Windows machines and both work well. I used this cable https://a.co/d/diTREUK however I’d look for a higher DP/thunderbolt revision now.

      • turtle@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 天前

        I don’t believe that the USB-C ports can take video input, so you would most likely need to use either and HDMI to DP or USB-C to DP adapter.