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I have a 12th gen i5 Framework 13 running Windows 11 Home (licensed) and a no-name USB-C hub with two HDMI outputs (link below) - one to a monitor and one to a projector. They all work fine with excellent image quality, but when I switch one display off or turn another one on, the video won't switch over unless I unplug the hub and plug it back in. The audio channel is not switched over automatically either - I have to go into sound settings and manually switch from internal speakers to HDMI out.

This all worked fine on my 12 year old Elitebook running Windows 10 with it's OEM docking station. Would this be an issue with the hub, the Framework hardware or Windows 11? Does anyone use multiple HDMI outs on a generic hub and have no problems with sound and video switching nicely?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So you are talking about turning off the monitor with its own push-button?

This is complicated. HDMI and DP are designed differently. HDMI is far "dummer". So it really depends on how the monitor behaves when you turn it off (that can range from GPU cannot possibly tell its off to the monitor acts to the GPU like the HDMI cable was unplugged).

Since you have DP into your GPU, the USB-C hub needs to convert what it may be able to tell about the HDMI monitor into DP format.

I can tell you that default behavior for Windows is to switch to last active audio device and monitor configuration for the current set of attached monitors (I do not actually know what Windows ties audio devices to). So the first time you attach a new audio-sink, Windows will switch to that. If that was the active output when you disconnected it, it should switch to it, when you plug it back in. In fact, Intel and Nvidia drivers under Windows have a habit of declaring the same monitor as a new audio-device far too often, so it more often switches to that as output than it does not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ah...I used Display Port to HDMI adapters with the Elitebook, so I guess that is why it worked better. Thanks!