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DUO EXTENDER
5.7 Keyboard Control: Hotkey Commands
NOTE
On the basic KV6EXT-R2 Extender, or when the Duo-system CPU is
selected on the full KV6EXT-R2 Extender, you won’t use any of the
Extender’s own hotkey commands to switch to a different CPU in the
Duo system. Instead, you’ll use the Duo’s on-screen menu, or {Duo
Hotkeys} + [channel number]. See
Section 5.5
.
You can control several functions on the ServSwitch Duo Extender—including
CPU selection, screen blanking, locking, and entering configuration mode—from
the keyboard, using commands triggered with the Extender’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], but you can change to any of six other
combinations by setting positions 6 through 8 of the Extender’s DIP switch (see
Section 4.2.1
).
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 the other CPU” command; you can “tab
back and forth” between the CPUs 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 Extender will not recognize keypad numbers.
•
KV6EXT-R2 only:
Use {Hotkeys} + [1] to switch from the local CPU to
whichever CPU you most recently selected on your Duo system. You simply get
normal access (governed by the Duo’s inactivity timeout—see the “User
timeout” section in the Duo manual) if that CPU is available, or video or no
access if it isn’t.
•
KV6EXT-R2 only:
Use {Hotkeys} + [2] to select any local CPU (if you have one
directly attached to the Extender).
•
KV6EXT-R2 only:
Use {Hotkeys} + [Tab] to switch from the Duo-system CPU to
the local CPU or vice versa.
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