I felt really dumb when I read vetra's post....didn't even think about that...but he's absolutely right about the y-keys, for my setup anyway.

I might be buying one of these....since I contacted the x-keys company about a mouse-only multi caster and said I would pay 400 or so dollars for one, but they never got back to me. (I currently have an 8 port KM and 8 port multicaster from vetra, which I love).

I might be wrong, but it seems like the VIP-808-KM-B-X would nicely take the place of my VIP-848-BC and VIP-808-KM-X at like half the price lol. So very nice for somone looking to switch to hardware. Conversely, sorta expensive for hardware people that are looking to extend their current setup to 10. But as i said above, I once said I'd pay 400 bucks to broadcast a mouse...LOL. Any sort of trade in deal would be extremely welcome, but at the same time, realistically, kinda unexpected.

Maybe I'm missing something about inversion...but I don't really see it being that useful unless you coupled it with a separate KM... That is, simply disabling broadcasting to one PC is useful, but you still need a way to control that particular keyboard. This could be done with a KM for 'main' control, and a 2nd keyboard for broadcast control, fi you want to have two input devices. Unless I'm missing some feature of the vetra device, you'd still need a separate KM to take real advantage of this feature. (I don't see why you couldnt have two input channels in the vetra device and swap them, I just don't see that feature currently). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

With regards to Vyndree's Pie in the Sky Round Robin Dreamage, I don't think the next pc feature really helps that...since (to be effective) it needs to be key based, not keyboard based. You are correct if you wanted to round robin everything, the 'next active' switch would work, but generally (i Think) most people want to round robin certain keys, while still (practically simultaneously) broadcasting Eg, this situation doesnt seem too unlikely:
Hit 4, have shaman 2 earth shock.
Hit 2, have all shamans LB
Hit 4, have shaman 3 earth shock.
HIt 2, have all shamans LB.

There'd be no way (that i see) to do that with the 'next active', since you'd go back to shaman 2, not shaman 3. And that would be a lot of hotkey hitting.

If your looking for a suggestion, well, the only way I see it happening is a piece of hardware that is configurable, and allows you to set any key as a 'round robin' key, where it internally squelches that key for the non selected output channels while in broadcast mode... There would almost have to be a software component to allow sanity while configuring it. Its pretty much wishful thinking.

It occurs to me that someone could write software that does this on each of the machines, while still relying on the hardware for the broadcast itself. Also, a cast sequence for wow that didn't halt on spell failure would accomplish the same thing. The former is probably more of a possibility. In the simplest case, it doesn't even have to communicate with other instances, just only pass every 3rd 4th 10th or whateverth key to wow.

Oh, and lastly, a disclaimer, I'm so NOT a hardware guy, was just seeking to clarify a bit and generally talking out my but.

Edit:
I don't really like the scroll lock hot keys either...but thats why I have a x-keys stick. Configurable hot keys would be nice, but probably a lot of work for little return. Tho that does lead me to something that'd be really cool...and kinda similar to what I was thinking above, but anyway, a multi caster that allowed programming for each output channel would be really cool. (By programming, I mean more along the lines of simple macros/changing what keys do/etc. ) Thats really really pie in the sky tho. Hmm. I don't see any reason why you have to have a special keypad to have programmable keys...why not just some box that takes keyboard input, modifies it, and then passes it on to the computer? Might be a potential product for general gaming applications...I dunno. Im sure theres a reason that everyone makes programmable keypads/keyboards/etc and not just The Magic Programmable Box that works with any ps2 keyboard...LOL. K, im gonna lay off the chocolate and go to bed. yeah. wheeeee.

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