[artemisbot]

If you actually sat and read it, you'd see that it's a piece of software that sits on each device connected to the USB switch and detects the USB disconnect/reconnect events which trigger when the USB switch is triggered and uses them to detect that the device should try to take control of the display devices.

[yesenadam]

> If you actually sat and read it, you'd see that

Without this phrase, your comment would be far friendlier and also not break the HN guidelines.

[tdeck]

I sat and read it and I had the same confusion. I've used a KVM before, but never knew that was some version of a KVM without the "V" called a USB switch. It seems like that peripheral must be less common than both USB hubs and real KVMs.

[numpad0]

The “$30 switch” part lead me into thinking it’ll be about controlling some specific hardware in undocumented ways.

A project about cooperatively switching display inputs to get rid of a video switcher should say so in the title.

[R0b0t1]

Not being able to figure out what it does is reasonable if they have no idea what KVM or a USB switch is.