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Dual Primaries controlling 1+ Secondary

July 25, 2012 1:52:59 PM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

I know this is a weird question but I have 2 desktop machines (1 work 1 personal) that are on a KVM. I also have 1 laptop I like to use as a secondary sometimes. What i want to do is have each primary be able to connect to it at the same time. So when I switch the KVM its a seemless transition to controlling the laptop.

 

Maybe it could be added as a feature to 2.0  

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Reply #1 July 25, 2012 4:34:36 PM
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If I understand correctly what you want, you can set both primaries to connect to the secondary and achieve what you want.  The KVM is immaterial.

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Reply #2 July 25, 2012 5:30:48 PM
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Yes i have two pcs that could be considered primary but due to the kvm the one keyboard controls both.

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Reply #3 July 26, 2012 9:03:54 AM
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Multiplicity only allows one primary in its setup, so I don't think this will be able to be implemented, especially because it would probably need to interact with the KVM switch in some way.

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Reply #4 July 26, 2012 10:19:04 AM
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Rosco I have an idea that could be implimented as an option that could solve my problem. 

If a disconnect happens for any reason (such as another primary connects or just a network issue) dont reconnect until mouse or keyboard input is detected. that way when I switch box i switch to will reconnect and the other will be thrown off but they wont fight over it like they do now. 

By the way I got my preorder in for 2.0 and it is nice but the audio features are not working correctly for me. but overall very nice and im glad ctl-alt-backspace seems to finally be working correctly. (Both are windows 7 x64 boxes)

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Reply #5 July 26, 2012 10:53:04 AM
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Wow i just installed 2 on the other machine and its allowing exactly what I asked for in the origional post. Both primarys are connected at the same time. This is awesome!!!

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Reply #6 July 26, 2012 11:44:35 AM
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What problems are you having with the audio features?

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Reply #7 July 26, 2012 11:46:55 AM
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Both primarys are connected at the same time.

I stand corrected, this was added in v2, and either the developers didn't tell me, or much more likely, I forgot... 

Glad you're happy, though!   Let me know if everything works well for you.

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Reply #8 July 26, 2012 1:07:56 PM
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No Problem Rosco just please make sure they dont patch it out As far as audio goes i get skipping audio on the source box so it is never passed to the primary pc. If i disable the audio feed my audio plays correctly on the source. 

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