Any Audio Switchers avaliable?

**HiJackZX1** · 05-11-2009, 04:11 PM

I am working on a project for my Car PC. Basically each passenger will get his/her own personal computer (a thin client PC). By use of a KVM they can toggle between the main PC, which hosts all the heavy stuff and TV based stuff, or they can switch to the thin client and browse the internet, music, or video. I wanted to have it so they can switch between PC and audio independently. So say they were browsing the internet on their thin client but wanted to hear music from the main PC, they can do it with a separate switch.

Thats the issue, I cant find anything like that. If I use mono audio then its simple, but I want to use stereo. Anyone know of a solution I can try? If not I can always get a KVM with audio capabilities built in also.

**HiJackZX1** · 05-11-2009, 04:32 PM

Well I quick look through Ebay gave me a solution. http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Tripp-Lite-B...ayphotohosting It supports audio, but also the ability to be on one PC but listen to the audio of the other.

One turn off is that the audio feature is software based, which may be an issue since I am using Windows XP, but then Windows CE on the otehr unit.

**HiJackZX1** · 05-12-2009, 04:22 PM

Well the previous switcher was no good because the audio side is software based. I decided to go with the D-Link KVM-221 which is all hardware based. I can not get a confirmation if it will work with a touchscreen, so I will have to buy it and try it. From Buy.com it runs 39.99, more then I wanted to spend because I need 6 of them, but Id rather pay more for a simple solution, rather then a confusing setup that will confuse everyone.

Also I decided on this unit because I took apart my door this morning and there isnt much room for other controls. There is literally only room for the PC on switch, PC1/PC2 switch and a headphone jack, nothing else :-(