Two peripherals (keyboard) connect to one PC with one connection established?

RE: Two peripherals (keyboard) connect to one PC with one connection established?

Susheel Nuguru — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 05:56:12 GMT

I think it is normal to have multiple HID keyboards for atleast Windows. In that sense, you can have your two left and right split keyboards connected to PC as HID devices. I am not sure if it is the same with other operating systems.
But yes, one device being central will consume more current.

Edit:

I did some more research and it seems like Linux and MacOS also allows multiple HID keyboards to one device. So yes, you can have two sides of your keyboard act as two separate keyboards with your own key mapping.

RE: Two peripherals (keyboard) connect to one PC with one connection established?

CTCNGH — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 01:07:25 GMT

Thank you for your reply.
But I concerning about the battery consumption for the part that work as central. It will drain more battery current due to listening. That why I think it's better to connect both of them to the PC.

RE: Two peripherals (keyboard) connect to one PC with one connection established?

Susheel Nuguru — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:30:35 GMT

This is possible.

You can have the right side be in the peripheral role connected to the PC as HID but also connect the right side as central to the left side (peripheral). This is because you have have multiple roles in your device simultaneously.

The left, peripheral part will send data to the right (central) and the right central will transmit the data received from the left to the PC HID connection.