In case anyone is interested, one of the guys here with some electronics skills made a dual input adapter using a diode.

I can post more details when we finish it.

Did you ever make it?

https://github.com/BigNerd95/RouterOS-Backup-Tools

The above does not work for SWOS backup files.

Is there anyway to edit them?

MikroTik support told me to put a post here, so comment if you think you want this. I have a ton of switches, and I am provisioning all the time. When I provision I restore a backup from a switch that is the closest to what I would want. It reboots, and then I have a laptop that I use to direct conn...