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Written by rodti on 2025-01-09 at 11:38

New tech day! Just received my #JetKVM which I backed on Kickstarter a while ago.

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Written by calumn on 2025-01-09 at 11:41

@rodti pretty

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Written by 🌅Rí Rua🏔️ on 2025-01-09 at 11:45

@rodti what does it do? Not come across a KVM before

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Written by rodti on 2025-01-09 at 11:54

@ruari A KVM is traditionally used for plugging in a keyboard, display and mouse to multiple machines, so if you had a couple of desktop PCs you could control them both with one set of peripherals. This one is more for remote access, so it shows an IP address on its screen, and you can browse to that to control the computer remotely. I’m going to use it for my home server which is tucked away in a cupboard with no room for peripherals!

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Written by 🌅Rí Rua🏔️ on 2025-01-09 at 12:37

@rodti that sounds so incredibly useful!

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Written by John on 2025-01-09 at 13:07

@rodti Those look so neat. And cheaper than buying a licence for most iLO-type things for "proper" servers. Wild.

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Written by rodti on 2025-01-09 at 13:26

@semanticist And slightly less hacky than the BliKVM I had rattling around in there!

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Written by John on 2025-01-09 at 14:12

@rodti My recent hacky 'KVM' for building a refurb-desktop-turned-server was a keyboard+trackpad combo with a wireless dongle, and an HDMI cable plugged into a USB video capture dongle plugged into my Mac and pretending to be a camera.

Surprisingly, it actually worked quite well!

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Written by rodti on 2025-01-09 at 14:21

@semanticist So you were basically live-streaming your server 😎

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Written by John on 2025-01-09 at 15:39

@rodti I think that's basically how the early DIY-remote-KVM builds worked for importing the server video output!

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