Not sure anyone is interested, but, I recently stumbled the mouse/keyboard sharing app written by Synergy. Its like a software KVM switch without the M (monitor) bit. Works really well, worth a tenner ($15) It looks like its been around for an age, not sure how I’ve avoided it 
Steve B
Hi Steve,
this might be exactly what I’m looking for. I have a HP mini computer for Cantabile and the PC keyboard on my piano with Velcro tape. Might be a bit unusual, but works really nice. Now I have a Microsoft Surface Book, only the tablet part, for my sheet music. With this application I may be able to use the keyboard for both, i.e., at home. I guess it will not work on stage or at rehearsals. How do you resolve that?
Hi,
Hope your well. I can’t see why not. The only stipulation is that both devices are connected on the same network. I’ve not used this live as we I run cantabile on a single laptop.
At home I have the two laptops, one running W11 with cantabile and other running Ubuntu Linux. It was easy to install and configure on both laptops and has worked without issue for a few weeks now.
Hope your successful with it.
../Steve B
I’ve had Synergy for a zillion years… i first got it to allow me to use one mouse/keyboard for a Windows and Mac pair, continued to use it for the same thing in the next two jobs after that, and now I’m using it with my old Windows 10 machine and my new Windows 11 box. I was on board when it was only version 1. They’ve had a rough history - the version 2 rewrite was a disaster - but now v1 and v3 are both supported and feel nice and solid to me. The best thing about v3 is the auto-discovery feature.
Probably my ignorance:
At home I have a router and network, but on stage I do not. Can I set-up a small net-work between the 2 computers?
Yes, you can. Connect and Ethernet cable between the two machines (you may need a crossover cable depending on the age of the devcies) and You’ll need to set the IP addresses of both machines manually (i.e. NOT DHCP). For example: set device 1 to 192.168.1.1 and device 2 to 192.168.1.2 - You can use a standard /24 mask (255.255.255.0) or /30 (255.255.255.252). No need for a default gateway, should work without.
Verion 3 does seem reliable, not had any issues withit to date. I can’t beleive I missed this piece of software, been in the comms for years, this little gem passed me by 