hey guys it's justin in today's video we're going to go through a step-by-step tutorial
on setting up TESmart's new A2U kvm we're going to show you guys how we set up the desktop a laptop
as well as the Xbox and Apple tv and teleconferencing like you can see here so
stay tuned we're going to start with an unboxing and then we're going to do the tutorial and then
we're going to show you how to do a headset with the Xbox at the end the video after
this is going to be the troubleshooting techniques all right let's jump into it
all right we're back for the unboxing let's go ahead and open this up and the top here we've
got a couple cards as well as the manual the card is going to help you find the setup information
another card here will have the frequently asked questions as well as some troubleshooting
techniques and then of course we have the manual let's go ahead and get everything out of the box
underneath the kvm you're going to find the rest of the components here
pull these out of here
now here we have a basic 5 volt adapter there's really nothing special here
and we've got our remote control
now what's interesting about the remote control is that it does not ship with a cr2025 battery
due to shipping limitations so if you want to use a remote you will need to pick one of those
up it's basic little four button remote and we have our two cables that come with a four port
now these are just hdmi and usb cables that are connected together by the jacket
you can see they're just fused together here it does only come with two cables for the four
port so if you want to connect more devices you can just use your regular hdmi and usb
cables that you have at home there's nothing proprietary about them in fact that's why it
only ships with two is because everybody has HDMI and UAB cables already let me open up our kvm here
now the kvm is a A2U 4 port unit you can tell it's an A2U because it has the mode light here
and then on the back we've got our output as well as our four inputs so we're going
to go ahead and set some things up and then we're going to come back and do the step-by-step guide
all right so we set up all of our components and now we're going to start by setting up our
computers and we're going to do the Xbox and then we're going to do the Apple tv so let's
go ahead and go to the back of the desk and let's start making those connections
now one of the things that's really important that you want to take into consideration
when you're thinking about how to set up the kvm is that if you have a desktop computer that has
graphics cards like we do here the graphics card is going to override the video output of
the motherboard so let's go ahead and connect the video connection here to the graphics card
and then we'll connect the USB to the motherboard now we'll run that cable over to
USB 1 and input one for the MacBook pro we're using the apple multi-port adapter which has
a power HDMI and USB we're not going to worry about the power because we have that connected
directly to the MacBook pro so let's just go ahead and connect the HDMI and the USB here
this is a Type c adapter so we connect it to the Type c port
and then we'll run the other side of the cable over to the kvm
going to USB 2
and input 2. for the Apple tv it does not have a USB port so we're just going to use a regular
HDMI cable and plug that into input 3. the Xbox on the other hand we do want to connect the USB
because we want to be able to use the mouse and keyboard for gaming so we go to USB4 input 4
connect the HDMI and the USB
now for the mouse and keyboard we're using Logitech wireless devices
we're going to plug that into the dedicated mouse and keyboard port it doesn't matter which goes in
which port and also if you have a unified device for one dongle for mouse and keyboard just plug
it in one of the two of those it'll be fine we've got our video output and then just to save time
we've already run power here so let's go to the front of the desk and let's turn this on
okay so our first step here is to turn the kvm on and you'll notice led 1 2 and 4 are
activated three is not because we did not make a USB connection to the Apple tv so our
windows computer came right up we got mouse and we've got keyboard let's switch over to
two which is a MacBook pro I think we need to turn this on
okay there we go so you can use the MacBook pro or any laptop device open or close it's
your choice a lot of people like to use them open that way they get two screens so let's log
in we're good here we actually got the mouse on both screens let's go over to our Apple tv
this is working okay and finally let's go over to our Xbox
let's grab this wake up the controller here so that's working and the keyboard is also
controlling the Xbox as well okay so that's it for the setup on this we're going to come back
in a second and we're going to connect the webcam as well as the headsets and the USB hub stay tuned
all right so we're back here to set up our teleconferencing and we have our
powered USB hub here now it's very important to use a powered USB hub if you're going to connect
more than one device to the USB 2.0 port if you don't you can draw too much power through that
port and the kvm will start to act erratic so the first thing you want to do is always connect power
to the hub first and then we're going to connect the webcam which is already above our monitor here
and then after that we're going to connect the receiver for our headset now this receiver is a
little bit different because it uses RF radio frequency instead of Bluetooth works better
with the kvm and it can also do Xbox as well as pc and we'll go over that in a second as well
so let's go ahead and connect the hub to the back of the kvm
and let's run the receiver here to the front because we're going to use that in a second
lastly we're going to connect the speakers to the audio output of the
kvm now we're going to go to the front of the device and see how everything is working
so the first step that we're going to want to do is turn the speakers on
and i find that zoom is one of the easiest ways to test everything so let's go ahead and load zoom
and come over to our settings go to our video and here we are on our video let's go to audio
now for the speakers you're going to want to choose the output that is the name of
your monitor so here we're using lg ultra gear let's select that and test the speakers
so we can hear the speakers they're working good and now let's go ahead and turn our headset on
all right now that's on we can find our
oh we actually have these set for Xbox mode so let's switch over here back to pc mode
and then now here we can find our headphones you can test them you can hear those defined
and now we can also see that we've got our microphone working here
as well now if we want to use the same headset with the Xbox it's really important you need to
switch this over to Xbox mode first before switching to the Xbox switch that over
and then let's go ahead and switch over to our Xbox with the kvm
and now that we're here we need to give it about 10 seconds or so and the receiver
will pair with the headphones which will match into the Xbox yep there we go headsets assigned
all right that's it for today's video we're actually going to do the troubleshooting segment
in another video coming up right after this so stay tuned for that thanks and have a good day