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Apologies if this type of question isn't fit for the community, I'll delete if so.

I'm going to start working from home again soon, and my desk setup is going to get very messy. I'm hoping to find a device that will let me easily manage 3 monitors between my personal laptop, my PS5, and my work computer.

I'd ideally like to set up "scenes", like a work scene where monitors 2 and 3 are using my work computer and monitor 1 is acting as extended display for my laptop off to the left, or a gaming scene where my work computer isn't displaying anything and my PS5 uses monitor 3 while monitors 1 and 2 are extending my laptop's display, etc.

Are there any devices that would allow one to easily manage this sort of setup? I'd really rather not have to rewire all my HDMI cables every time I want to switch from working to gaming.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There are KVMs that support signal switching. Probably about $3k USD.

They are largely employed in the camming industry, which is what I assume you are subtly mentioning you're going back to.

Not cheap. Have lots of problems, require an external remote to "switch scenes", and they fail...like a lot.

I couldn't suggest them unless you're fine throwing that kind of money away.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OP could do it with two or three cheap KVMs if they could live with flipping three switches instead of one. Some cheap China KVMs have pedals for switching input and could probably be wired together with a microcontroller for a fraction of the cost but some soldering and programming to get it working.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, you need the ones that do actual signal switching in DP or HDMI to let the display know what's going on.

The people who make these know who their target audience is, and it's not people "working from home".

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Well, OP is not the target audience but is the people working from home. Maybe OP is wealthy though.