Currently, I have SSH, VNC, and Cockpit setup on my home NAS, but I have run into situations where I lose remote access because I did something stupid to the network connection or some update broke the boot process, causing it to get stuck in the BIOS or bootloader.
I am looking for a separate device that will allow me to not only access the NAS as if I had another keyboard, mouse, and monitor present, but also let’s me power cycle in the case of extreme situations (hard freeze, etc.). Some googling has turned up the term KVM-over-IP, but I was wondering if any of you guys have any trustworthy recommendations.
Has pikvm ever been ported to PC architecture? Seems like it should be possible to get a PC server to act as a KVM switch if it has an HDMI capture card and an USB-C plug.
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There are cheaper knockoffs that run the same software. For example: https://geekworm.com/
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Has pikvm ever been ported to PC architecture? Seems like it should be possible to get a PC server to act as a KVM switch if it has an HDMI capture card and an USB-C plug.
You’d also need GPIO pins to be able to do the remote “button presses”.
I’m mainly interested in streaming the video output and generating keyboard and mouse events.