Question: Can you chain / link Adder DDX switches?
Answer: Thank you for your inquiry,
Adder DDX range isn't really designed for linking / chaining of units. While this would be technically speaking possible by taking up 2 ports on each unit & with some software modifications (see below), for larger matrix based applications than DDX we would definitely recommend looking into the
Adder INFINITY solution instead which features the ability to create an unlimited end-point matrix.
Hardware Connections:
You can have a DDX-USR from one of the switches connected to a DDX-CAM from the other and vice versa. You won't be able to be directly connect one switch to the other but via this back to back method of USR to CAM module then you could achieve this.
Software Modifications:- You will need to set a different "OSD Hotkey Modifier" for each DDX switch to prevent clashes in the OSD. Hotkey Modifiers allow you to pull up the On-Screen-Display and switch sources by using different hot key combinations for each switch.
- You are also at a risk of creating a loop but you can configure the access permissions for each USR to prevent this.
Again to be honest though,
we would not recommend this setup, and Adder would not support this for technical support.
Infinity would be a much cleaner solution and will be a lot less of a headache for the end user to actually use as a system without having to remember several keyboard combinations and which switch a source is connected to.
Question: I have two pc's that are sharing 3 monitors. The pc's use DisplayPort out and the Monitors are DVI in. I need a KVM that will switch which pc is driving the 3 monitors. I'm having difficulty finding a setup for this. Can you please point me to the hardware that can switch in either DVI or DisplayPort (ideally DisplayPort).
Answer: Thank you for your inquiry,
You could use this Adder DDX KVM Switch Matrix, which features DVI user stations and DisplayPort source dongles, as a 2-Port Triple-monitor DVI to DisplayPort KVM:
*The Adder DDX Matrix allows you to group multiple KVM dongles (transmitters) & User stations (receivers) to form multi-display 'Computers' and 'Consoles', which automatically opens up all the relevant displays when connecting to a source pc.
Please let us know if there is anything else we can help you with!