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Suggestions for docking station kvm switch
January 1, 2025 at
07:16 AM
At work we use a VDI (virtual desktop). When I'm at work I connect to it using a company laptop. At home I use a personal desktop.
The VDI is going to be decommissioned soon so I will have to use the work laptop at home.
At work the laptop connects to monitors/keyboard/mouse using a single USB thunderbolt connection.
At home my pc has the usual monitor (DP port daisy chained to to two monitors), keyboard/mouse connections.
I'm looking for a solution which will allow me to switch between the laptop and desktop.
The VDI is going to be decommissioned soon so I will have to use the work laptop at home.
At work the laptop connects to monitors/keyboard/mouse using a single USB thunderbolt connection.
At home my pc has the usual monitor (DP port daisy chained to to two monitors), keyboard/mouse connections.
I'm looking for a solution which will allow me to switch between the laptop and desktop.
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is a lot of money you will need to make a few changed to get it all working but the monitor part will be very difficult.
Assuming you can do this as well, then you could plug your laptop into the second input of your monitor and you'd have dual-screens with the laptop screen and one monitor...
Assuming you can do this as well, then you could plug your laptop into the second input of your monitor and you'd have dual-screens with the laptop screen and one monitor...
You connect this monitor (Monitor 1) to the DP output of the computer/laptop.
Then use the DP Out port on Monitor 1 to the DP In port of Monitor 2.
You can chain several, but I forget where it caps out at.
I have not tried this 1st hand, but we looked into this option at work for a project a year or so ago.
I think the other constraints for this to work was that the source had to support the function and that the cables had to meet the spec for it as well.
You connect this monitor (Monitor 1) to the DP output of the computer/laptop.
Then use the DP Out port on Monitor 1 to the DP In port of Monitor 2.
You can chain several, but I forget where it caps out at.
I have not tried this 1st hand, but we looked into this option at work for a project a year or so ago.
I think the other constraints for this to work was that the source had to support the function and that the cables had to meet the spec for it as well.
Does a DP out port for daisy chaining also double as a DP in port? If so, maybe OP can utilize it with his laptop...
Does a DP out port for daisy chaining also double as a DP in port? If so, maybe OP can utilize it with his laptop...
I think they are direction specific...but you never know.