Is it me, or is there a dearth of useable USB-C KVMs out there? I want to hook up a MacBook and an EliteBook to the same HDMI Monitor, ErgoDox, Mouse setup... but the only ones I can find are unpowered with a serious lack of even USB-2 ports. Is there something special (or just expensive) about USB-C, that's holding things back?
I asked the same question and then I bought a new monitor...<p>My kvm, is in my monitor, a Dell U3419w.<p>One usb-c connection from my monitor charges / powers the laptop and provides usb connections to all my input devices, other devices, video, and etc.<p>Just one cable and I'm up and running.<p>My desktop is also connected to the monitor (display port and another usb connection) and I can switch back and forth as I need to. No cable moving or anything like that.
USB-C (Type C) is just the connector type which you can work around with adapters. I guess you're looking for USB-3, but I don't think it should matter if the KVM ports are Type A or Type C.
Have you considered investing in a few low cost adapters?<p>Keyboard and mouse are low speed devices that have little to gain from moving to USB-2 or USB-C. I'm sure they will eventually but there is no urgent rush.<p>Things like KVM switches tend to be low margin and target the lowest common/practical denominator in the marketplace. The manufacturers won't retool on a whim.
Went down this road a year or 2 ago. My pc is always on so I use Barrier with my PC as the host and laptop as the client. <a href="https://github.com/debauchee/barrier" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/debauchee/barrier</a> it works really well