[GTALUG] war story: keyboard failure leads to sustained mayhem

[James Knott]

On 07/06/2015 10:37 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> HDMI switches are quite cheap these days.  That would handle the V
> part of KVM.  Maybe the clutter of multiple keyboards and mice would
> be OK.  HDMI includes an ethernet signal now.  Someone should build a
> pair of dongles to ship K and M stuff over that channel.  USB over
> ethernet is probably already a thing.

I have a KVM that does HDMI and USB, so video, keyboard, mouse and even
audio are switched.  As I said, the one computer requires a keyboard
plugged in, but all work through the KVM.