Have 2 of these for my homelab with the power management extension and they’ve been great, would recommend
JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
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Re: JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
#32I know this might sound naive but for those of us who had to google kvm here mean keyboard video and mouse, not the linux kernel-based virtual machine kvm this device apparently is used to connect to machines remotely over IP
People familiar with KVM switches have the reverse issue with the Linux kernel thing. ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706866#45713054
Likewise with DRM.
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#33I wish there was a KVM out there that didn't need HDMI, where it sat on PCIe bus and presented a really dumb framebuffer/kb/mouse to the BIOS/OS, but sent it out over the network
or that just connected over usb and acted as a usb display adapter
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#34Why not combine the ATX board and the unit itself, and have a real HDMI port? This seems like a mess of cables and dongles.
Something like the NanoKVM-PCIe? I have both JetKVM and NanoKVM-PCIe, its nice to have options.
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#35I couldn't see if it could "press" the reset button.
there's this add on which allows it to do front panel/power stuff
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#36I wish there was a KVM out there that didn't need HDMI, where it sat on PCIe bus and presented a really dumb framebuffer/kb/mouse to the BIOS/OS, but sent it out over the network
or that just connected over usb and acted as a usb display adapter
afaik usb isn't an option for bios/preboot display. so only useful if the thing is booting up OK enough to run a usb display driver
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#37I've been satisfied with NanoKVM lite. Cheap and does what i want.
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#38Don't use these on your corporate devices or the infosec department will think you are a DPRK remote worker.
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#39No out of the box TailScale but it's 'easy to add.'
WebRTC is neat. It looks like it relies on CloudFlare WebRTC relay for STUN / TURN, but supposedly you can self-host the cloud api. https://jetkvm.com/docs/networking/remote-access
I'd also point out the gl.inet Comet Pro, which has some nice to haves like wifi 6, full sized HDMI ports, HDMI and USB pass through. https://www.gl-inet.com/campaign/gl-rm10/
The PiKVM approach of having a whole computer you can also use makes so much sense to me. Interesting seeing similar parallels in NAS space, where Ugreen for example is running Debian on their NAS.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
or that just connected over usb and acted as a usb display adapter
afaik usb isn't an option for bios/preboot display. so only useful if the thing is booting up OK enough to run a usb display driver
USB-C in DisplayPort Alt mode plus USB 2.0 signalling for the keyboard and mouse inputs is starting to be a pretty common option on consumer systems. Capturing that would allow remote control of a PC including the BIOS using a single cable (though a second cable would still be needed for connecting to a desktop motherboard's header for power and reset buttons).
I think there just aren't as many options for DisplayPort capture chips as for HDMI/DVI capture.