SDVoE system advice - routing without PC

AKC_Alois wrote:

The idea is: we have 1 big monitor (Output 1) connected over SDVoE Tx/Rx to a PC (Input 1). In the same room we also have a lamp camera and HDMI patches for laptops (Inputs 2). All this will be also connected over SDVoE Tx/Rx to 2x display and 4K capture card.

FWIW, I agree a diagram would be useful.

So really three outputs? ("big monitor", "2x display", and "4K capture card")?

I see 3+ inputs ("PC", "HDMI patches", "Lamp Camera") - how many HDMI patches are there?

I am guessing that the Lamp Camera is wifi-connected.  If so, how does the wifi stream reach the switch?

AKC_Alois wrote:

If you plug 2 or more cables to input X, switch must be able to handle this somehow and not cause any errors - ideally it should route the latter connected cable

This sounds like you are expecting the most recently connected input to be routed to all outputs????  So you always want one input connected to all outputs?  Never (for example) the PC displayed on the big monitor, but the lamp camera routed to the capture card?

Overall, this sounds like you are trying to create the equivalent of an HDMI switch.  Is that correct? 

I am thinking that using an HDMI switch would be a more cost effective solution. You can find decent 8x8 matrix switches for about $700 USD.  You could add an IP decoder to HDMI for about $200 USD, so less than $1000 USD total.

I do understand that SDVoE does include Matrix Switching as one of its use cases.  But it looks like it would be lot more expensive.