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kvm-switch
Control hardware KVM/Matrix devices when your mouse moves to the edge of the screen (by timgws)
The schematics are available [0]. It looks to me like the MCU is doing some sideband control, but the DisplayPort signal itself is passed through unmodified.
[0] https://github.com/OSCARAdapter/OSCAR
https://github.com/intel/hdcp
Grab it now before Intel deletes it completely.
HDCP is really a very ugly protocol designed just for anti-copying, I wouldn't build anything relying on it, and everything is harder with HDCP from an AV integration perspective. If you have long links that you want to secure, use something like SDVoE with encryption and authentication (bits are easily flipped in HDCP).
I had the same issue with this device. I ended up writing some code that you could run on a machine to operate the switching via the RS232 port: https://github.com/timgws/kvm-switch/
Bonus for adding 'glide and switch' functionality, so you can move the mouse to the edge of the screen and it would jump the input to the next display in your layout. It's like a hardware version of Synergy.
Very finicky device, but if you don't touch it - and you don't use any of the shortcuts - it works.