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I might buy one of these for remote family tech support. "Hey $relative, plug the remote support box into the USB port of the computer you're having trouble with so I can take a look"
(Not affiliated in any way, I paid for it fully!)
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There are really two types of KVMs... classic ones were used by consumers to plug multiple computers into one screen, keyboard, and mouse and flip back and forth between them. Networked KVMs let you remotely access a computer or server. It's like VNC except by physically plugging into the ports. This is useful because it allows you to have remote access to a server when its OS is offline, tweak bios settings, watch i…
Got it! So I could for example plug this into my mac mini at home and reboot it after a power failure or something while traveling?
I might buy one of these for remote family tech support. "Hey $relative, plug the remote support box into the USB port of the computer you're having trouble with so I can take a look"
I would suggest gl.inet Comet Q. It only uses a single USB-C cable to do everything (wifi only of course, and it does need a USB-C port that can transfer DisplayPort in alternative mode). It also has tailscale. (Not affiliated in any way, I paid for it fully!)
Personally, I also specifically do not use the vPro NIC on my Intel machine.
If you have an Intel CPU, there is a good chance you have a KVM built-in (whether you wanted one or not): Intel AMT. Its reputation was tarnished by Intel's dissimulation and opacity about the technology, and a streak of critical vulnerabilities disclosed in late 2017. I chose to take my chances with it anyway for my homelab server. It is secured with a password, mutual TLS (client has to provide a cert), and restric…
This would require a vPro CPU and compatible motherboard, right?
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Could you be more specific? I just skimmed through the reviews on the one I use, seems fine?
This one for example: https://www.amazon.com/portal/customer-reviews/srp/-/RCCFLFK...
How do you reboot the target machine and stay powered? I know some ipkvm can interface with the ATX header, but that's usually an extra addon. It also requires have some access to the ATC header during installation. I have a tiny "NAS" where the mobo is the size of credit card and very difficult to access. The power supply is external. The USB doesn't stay powered when turned off. I cobbled together a bare NanoKVM ru…
Does anyone know such a device, but for a CUPS/SANE server? It would allow tou to secure a printer/scanner (which often use out-of-date software stacks). I'm currently using a RPi for this, but require partly to use qemu to run this to emulate a x86-64 binary (Brother driver). How did we end up with this mess. TVs and STBs are same story.
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The only reason it had been difficult was video capture and compression. Even 32MB would be overkill if you didn't need remote screen.
....that's kinda the feature KVM is for, remote screen