Black Box KV6104SA manual Keyboard Control Hotkey Commands

SERVSWITCH DUO™

5.7 Keyboard Control: Hotkey Commands

You can control many functions on the ServSwitch Duo—such as CPU-channel selection, autoscanning, or locking—from the keyboard, using commands triggered with the Switch’s currently selected hotkey combination. All of the hotkey-control commands are invoked by holding down the one or two hotkeys and then pressing a command key. By default, the two hotkeys are [Ctrl] and [Alt], although other keystroke combinations can be selected (see Section 4.2.6).

Normally, when you send a hotkey command, you have to release the hotkeys and the command key before you can send another one. The one exception to this rule is {Hotkeys} + [Tab], the “switch to next CPU channel” command; you can “tab through” the channels by holding down the hotkeys and repeatedly pressing [Tab].

The hotkey commands are summarized below. Note that to generate the numeric digits in the commands that contain them, you need to press the number keys on the top row of the main section of the keyboard, not the number keys on the keypad; the Switch will not recognize keypad numbers.

•Use {Hotkeys} + [x], where x is a number from one to nine, to switch to the corresponding CPU channel. If you try to select a channel with a higher number than the Switch has ports, the Switch will ignore the command and pass it through to the currently selected computer.

•Use {Hotkeys} + [1] then [x], where x is a number from one to six, to switch to the corresponding CPU channel ([1][1] = channel 11, [1][2] = chanel 12, and so on). If you try to select a channel with a higher number than the Switch has ports, the Switch will ignore the command and pass it through to the currently selected computer. To make sure that the Switch doesn’t switch prematurely to channel 1, hold down the hotkeys until you enter the second digit, then release them.

•Use {Hotkeys} + [Tab] to switch to the next channel in numeric sequence.

•Use {Hotkeys} + [M] to get the Switch to display its on-screen menu for selecting computers by name.

•Use {Hotkeys} + [A] to have the Switch start autoscanning (briefly displaying the video from each CPU channel in turn). You can control whether or not it scans empty channels, and for how long it pauses at each channel, with the “L” and “T” configuration commands respectively (see Section 4.2.3). To stop autoscanning, simply select a fixed channel using the on-screen menu, the Switch’s SELECT button, the keyboard hotkeys, or the mouse.

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