Sharing a Wireless keyboard/Mouse between two devices (e.g. PC and PS3)

comdw

I have a USB wireless keyboard mouse that I'd like to share between my PC and PS3.

Assume I need something like a KVM switch (don't really need the V bit though!) and I'd need it to switch using a key on the keyboard rather than a manual switch.

Ebuyer have a USB peripheral switch (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125962), but according to the review you need software running on each host to inititate the switch.

Any suggestions?

warmstrong

Perhaps this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-2x1-USB-Peripheral-Switch/dp/B000KRN1Q8 or this? http://www.blackbox.co.uk/solutions/display.asp?cs=dvh&id=1&doc=sw212a&tx=Server%20and%20Desktop%20Connectivity&sx=Electronic%20Switches

comdw

warmstrong wrote: »

Perhaps this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-2x1-USB-Peripheral-Switch/dp/B000KRN1Q8 or this? http://www.blackbox.co.uk/solutions/display.asp?cs=dvh&id=1&doc=sw212a&tx=Server%20and%20Desktop%20Connectivity&sx=Electronic%20Switches

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm under the impression these are designed to share something like a printer rather than a keyboard and as such the electronic switch requires special software to be running on both host PCs to pick up the hotkey. So I'm not really sure it would work trying to share the keyboard using this.

If anyone has one of these and knows if it will work please let me know.

warmstrong

I actually use on of these (Black Box two port unit with a four port hub on the common port) to switch my keyboard and peripherals(scanner, printer, usb modem ) between two computers. If you use a wireless keyboard and mouse I would connect the wireless tranmitters/receivers to the common port via a cheap hub.

The unit requires no software to run as the pc just sees it as another usb device and to change things over it requires the use of a finger to press a button!

I'm not sure the keyboard "hotkey" function would work as it needs the switching device to have intelligence to recognise when the key is pressed. -