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.
My understanding of your question makes me believe that you might be looking for a matrix switcher.
Basically, you have a bunch of inputs (devices) and a bunch of outputs (screens) and it allows you to select what goes where, eiyher one by one manually, or you can sace/load presets.
I’ve installed many of these on ships so that the skipper can easily select where he wants radar, autopilot, chart plotter, echosounder and whatnot, based on what he’s doing .
The ones I installed were usually from Kramer, as they are pretty durable. I’m sure you can find cheaper ones.