Device guide
Which devices can switch?
It depends on how a device remembers your computers. Find yours below. AutoSwitch also tells you when you add a device.
Can't switch? AutoSwitch still shows whether the device is connected, and there's usually an easy fix.
AutoSwitch moves these for you
Switch automatically
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Hands off by pairing
One pairing at a time. AutoSwitch removes it on the computer you leave and pairs on the one you arrive at.
Setting: Manage pairing on
Why it works
The device holds one pairing. As soon as one computer lets go, the next can pair without you touching the device.
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Switches channel on request
A channel per computer. AutoSwitch tells the device to hop to the other computer's channel, and finds that channel itself.
Setting: Manage pairing off
Why it works
Logitech's Easy-Switch devices accept a "change host" command from the computer they're connected to. Pairings stay exactly as they are. AutoSwitch checks that your device supports it, and on the Mac it asks once for Input Monitoring.
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Joins whichever computer connects
Remembers several computers and goes to the one that asks. The Mac app connects and disconnects it with the KVM.
Mac: supported, being tested · Windows: not yet
Why not on Windows
Windows has no way for an app to disconnect a Bluetooth device without unpairing it, which would make you pair it again.
No app can move these
Can't be switched by an app
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Picks the computer itself
A pairing per computer, and a key on the device chooses one. Only the device can switch.
What to do: use its own switch key, or plug it into the KVM by USB. Manage pairing off.
Why not
No computer can change which profile the keyboard uses. Removing the pairing on one computer breaks that profile, and you'd pair it again from the keyboard.
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Re-pairs by hand
Remembers one Bluetooth computer. Moving it means pressing its pairing button.
What to do: keep it on one computer, use a cable through the KVM, or a USB adapter.
Why not
After a computer removes it, the controller still points at that computer, so the other one can't pair until you press the button.
No app needed
Make it follow the KVM like a wired device
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USB receiver? Plug it into the KVM
Logitech Unifying, Bolt and Lightspeed receivers follow the KVM on their own, and they're faster than Bluetooth. Use the KVM's plain USB port, not a "keyboard/mouse emulation" port.
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Bluetooth-to-USB adapter
Pair the device once with an adapter on the KVM. For controllers: the 8BitDo USB Wireless Adapter 2 (Windows and Mac). For keyboards and mice: DIY bridges like HID Remapper. Not for a Magic Trackpad's gestures.
Not sure?
Test your device in a minute
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Connect it to one computer
Make sure it works there.
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Remove it there
In Bluetooth settings, remove (forget) it.
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Pair it on the other one
Without pressing anything on the device.
- It pairs Hands off by pairing: AutoSwitch can switch it.
- Only after a button press Re-pairs by hand.
- It has a computer-switch key Picks the computer itself (or, Logitech, switches channel).
AutoSwitch guesses the kind from the device's maker and type, and marks a guess as likely. Found a device it gets wrong? Tell us.