TinyPilot KVM Over IP
Just been watching this review <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyEpshm16HY> of the TinyPilot KVM-over-IP box. It’s purchasable from the maker’s website for US$300-plus, which is a fraction of the price of most other KVM-over-IP products. It’s built around a Raspberry π 4, using the camera adapter for HDMI in (no use made of the GPIO connector at all). Of course this means it can only support a connection to a single server machine. The source code is on GitHub if you want to build that yourself. The base product offers insecure HTTP-only access; if you want HTTPS, you have to pay extra for the TinyPilot Pro software licence. For comparison, some reader comments mention an alternative “PiKVM” product -- has anyone heard of this?
Just been watching this review <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyEpshm16HY> of the TinyPilot KVM-over-IP box. It’s purchasable from the maker’s website for US$300-plus, which is a fraction of the price of most other KVM-over-IP products. It’s built around a Raspberry π 4, using the camera adapter for HDMI in (no use made of the GPIO connector at all). Of course this means it can only support a connection to a single server machine. The source code is on GitHub if you want to build that yourself. The base product offers insecure HTTP-only access; if you want HTTPS, you have to pay extra for the TinyPilot Pro software licence.
For comparison, some reader comments mention an alternative “PiKVM” product -- has anyone heard of this?
This one? https://pikvm.org/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 577-5304 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:20:50 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
This one? https://pikvm.org/
Found a review here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTchVKxx7Fo>. Besides being able to remotely access keyboard, video and mouse, it also has an OTG port which lets you connect an optical disc or USB stick image that you previously loaded onto the Pi KVM manager machine. So you can get into the remote managed machine’s BIOS/UEFI, change settings, and tell it to boot the image as though it were a real connected device. This lets you wipe drives and do full OS installs without having to be at the managed machine. For managing machines that cannot handle USB OTG, there is an additional “Advanced USB module” available.
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