Controllable USB Hub - does it exist?

[gapiro]

Is there such a thing as a controllable usb hub. IE i'm looking for something that I could have say 10 usb devices connected to a hub, which is then connected to 4 servers. An additional input connected to either one of the servers, or a master server can control which of the servers each of the USB ports are routed too.

 

[Lutfij]

That's a little too complex for even a USB port but have you tried looking through KVM switches? What are you exactly trying to achieve with the loop of USB's? Perhaps if you worded it well we'd be able to think of it on a realistic scale.

 

[gapiro]

Basically, I'm a test engineer working for a company that makes a device that is controlled by USB. We have something like 40 odd variants, split into 9 subclasses of the device, and was looking for a way to automate the testing - essentially so I could have just one of each device variant connected to a series of servers. (The idea then being that we dont have to each server connected to each subclass of device - the devices cost circa £10k on average)