Comment on cheap remote kvm
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 day ago
Here’s the secret that KVM makers Don’t Want You To Know: Nowadays KVMs are almost always redundant if you have a monitor with multiple inputs. A simple USB KM switch plus a script that can call https://www.ddcutil.com/ will take care of almost all use cases.
toor@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You’re thinking of a desktop KVM for connecting multiple computers to one set of devices. This post is asking about network attached KVMs for providing remote access to virtually a keyboard, monitor, mouse plugged directly into a machine. This allows out of band access to things outside of the operating system - e.g. bios/efi, entering full disk encryption passwords, even pressing power/reset buttons via jumpers to motherboard headers. This type of KVM is equivalent to Lights Out Managers like LOM/DRAC in the server world.
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Ahh, I see. I missed that part and was thinking of a KVM that could be controlled via a remote or ssh. Cary on then.