No broadcast software ideas for multiboxing

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I thought of a couple of approaches so far.

1. I wrote a python script that if a WoW client has focus and I press a key it will focus the next WoW client and so on.

This allows me to alt-tab without actually having to press alt-tab - though I'm not sure if this would qualify as automation so I want to shy away from it. This setup is tedious regardless since it means 1 physical key press per client so lots of spamming.

2. Use a USB synchronous switch - like THIS one.

This switch allows a keyboard and mouse to control 8 devices simultaneously. I also purchased THIS one hand gaming keyboard to use with the switch so my regular keyboard is freed up for other things. This offers a simple hardware based solution but the issue is of course you need 1 PC per WoW client which is not a small barrier to entry.

Lots of good thinking. The USB synchronous KM switch would obey the current "letter of the law" (by bypassing software) but may violate the "spirit of the law" by allowing 1 keypress to initiate an action in multiple clients...

A USB number keypad is kinda like the one-hand keyboard (or half keyboards) with even fewer keys... A low tech solution that combines multiple number keypads and allows them to be used like a synchronous switch would be something like:

https://i.gyazo.com/79ec17ce563426d0d4793655ea1547d3.png

Using that wooden dowel to link the devices may however also violate the "spirit of the law" so I would try to deliniate which solutions are using multi-client broadcasting (even if hardware based) versus which are not. Having just those four small 10keypads and manually clicking each one would likely not be a violation of neither the letter nor the spirit of the law...