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February 22nd, 2016 06:00
U3415W, sharing between MacBook Pro and PC
Hi all,
bought the rather excellent U3415 recently and I am setting up my small music setup at home.
On my desk I have my macbook pro and my pc. What I would like to be able to do is to use one keyboard and mouse for both systems. Can I do this with the U3415? I am using a USB hub which is plugged into the macbook pro (I have about 7 usb devices for music) but I was wondering if I could plug the USB keyboard and mouse into the screen then somehow use just the one keyboard and mouse. I read the U3415 has a great KVM feature for upstream USB and wasn't sure if this was the same thing. I know I can plug in Display port AND HDMI so switching from pc/mac will be easy for the display side of things.
recoder7
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February 22nd, 2016 12:00
Ok nm, received a diagram, all clear.
DELL-Chris M
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February 22nd, 2016 12:00
In theory that should work. But we only tested the monitor and KVM on Windows operating systems.
The built in KVM is done via the Input Source selection you choose. Page 42 in the User's Guide.
* Connect the keyboard and mouse to the U3415W bottom USB downstream ports (Ports #9-1 in picture on page 10)
* Connect computer 1 to U3415W bottom USB upstream port 1 (Port #8-1 in picture on page 10)
* Connect computer 1 to one of the U3415W video in ports (HDMI/HDMI/DP/mDP)
* Connect computer 2 to U3415W bottom USB upstream port 2 (Port #8-2 in picture on page 10)
* Connect computer 2 to one of the U3415W video in ports (HDMI/HDMI/DP/mDP)
* Press the #4 Menu button to open the OSD (On Screen Display)
* Go to Input Source. Choose the applicable video port for computer 1 or computer 2
* Go to USB Selection
- change USB 1 to whatever video port computer 1 is using
- change USB 2 to whatever video port computer 2 is using