Ability to Share Space Pilot across multiple computers

DERoberts · Post by **DERoberts** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:48 pm

Hello All,

In our environment, the technicans have 2-4 computers at their desk. They have one keyboard and one mouse, but have one monitor for each computer. We use a program called Input Director to allow them to direct the input from the mouse and keyboard to the desired computer. The user sets the focus by moving the mouse pointer off the edge of the screen, focus is then shifted to computer configured to be that edge of the screen.

I would like to do the same thing with the Space Pilot. Have it hooked to one computer and send the input to the different systems based on the focus.

Any existing solutions? Any ideas at how to implement?

Thanks

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:22 pm

Dear DERoberts,

I would contact your 'Input Director' Support. What do the mouse and keyboard plug into? We have no such products.

Sincerely,
Bryan

DERoberts · Post by **DERoberts** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:36 am

Thanks for the quick response.

The Input Director(see link in orginal post) is software that runs on all of the systems shared by one technician.

The mouse and keyboard plug into the system (usb ports) on the computer that is configured to be the master. I would plug the SpacePilot into a usb port on this system as well.

I didn't expect 3DConnexion to have a device (i.e. hardware). I am looking for a software solution for re-directing the input from the SpacePilot to a different computer.

Post by **jwick** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:48 am

That sounds like a terrific product. I'd ask them if there is a way to simply add other USB devices to the switching & forwarding they do for the mouse and keyboard. A hardware KVM works of course, but that's not as elegant as this solution, and it also switches the monitor.