No broadcast software ideas for multiboxing

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I have been multiboxing a team of 5, warrior/priest/mage/mage/warlock for about a year in Classic and have cleared every 5-man with it including some raids with my guild, just to fill up the lack of people.

I do use hotkeynet to broadcast only hotkeys, not mouse, I use a lot of ingame macro's and addons (leatirix), most hotkeys having overlapping abilities or macro's on the characters. I play fullscreen on the warrior and don't see the others at all, i assisgned hotkeys to quickly bring each character's screen as the active screen.

The way i play, bloodthirst or a heroic strike would also do a fireball from the mage, and shadowbolt from the warlock, these are bound to the same hotkey ingame. When i started out, this would also cast a heal on the tank, this resulted in me running out of mana too fast and way too many unnecessary heals. So separate hotkeys for the healing were born.

However the better I got, the more i got to lean to 1 action per keystroke when doing the rotation for dps as well. There are so many cases I don't want my characters to cast the things that I bound to the keys doing the overlapping spells. For example, mages are out of mana and need to evocate, while the warlock can still cast shadowbolts. Or the warlock has to lifetap and the mages need to keep shooting. So these all got their own keybinds as well.

So I really wouldn't mind doing the same with all spells from each character on a seperate keybind, it would even add flexibility, i'd need to do just a bit more typing though. So i would send part of my keyboard to WoW1, another few keys will always go to WoW2 etcetera.

I know how to configure this in Hotkeynet, and would not be using any broadcasting at all anymore, however, it appears the entire program is blacklisted.
- Is there any other way to basically split your keyboard over the wow instances?
- Is there any alternative for the following hotkeynet script: (it eliminates the alt-tabbing)
<Hotkey F8>
<SendPC local>
<TargetWin WoW1>
<SetActiveWin>


<Hotkey F9>
<SendPC local>
<TargetWin WoW2>
<SetActiveWin>
etc
I read that windowskey-1 works, but i really need it to be one key dediced to each character.

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I have been multiboxing a team of 5, warrior/priest/mage/mage/warlock for about a year in Classic and have cleared every 5-man with it including some raids with my guild, just to fill up the lack of people.

I do use hotkeynet to broadcast only hotkeys, not mouse, ...

However the better I got, the more i got to lean to 1 action per keystroke when doing the rotation for dps as well. ...

So I really wouldn't mind doing the same with all spells from each character on a seperate keybind, it would even add flexibility, i'd need to do just a bit more typing though. So i would send part of my keyboard to WoW1, another few keys will always go to WoW2 etcetera.

I know how to configure this in Hotkeynet, and would not be using any broadcasting at all anymore, however, it appears the entire program is blacklisted.
- Is there any other way to basically split your keyboard over the wow instances?
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The only ways I can think of are as follows:

5 numberkeypads (without the wooden dowels) with each one connecting via USB to a single WoW client in a dedicated PC or VM (but these would give you a limited number of keybinds):

https://i.gyazo.com/79ec17ce563426d0...55ea1547d3.png

If you needed more keybinds than can fit on the 10keypads you could do something like 5 of these (each mapped to a PC/VM):

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B074SGZ6Z4
https://smile.amazon.com/Koolertron-.../dp/B076LRJ528

(you could velcro multiple of these or the 10keypads to a single lapboard)

If you wanted to try to do it all from one keyboard you will likely have to use some software based routing like depicted here using something like a Launchpad or an Elgato:

Diagram of a Launchpad approach (with rtpMIDI and Bomes Midi Translator) and VMs:

https://i.gyazo.com/ab172a7a596229d8...02fe12a6a5.png

Lastly you could maybe build a hardware based single-frankenstein-keyboard via Arduinos that outputs specific keys to specific destinations.