Does anyone have a solution for a cheap remote KVM? All the solutions I’ve found are around $100 and I don’t want to spend that much.

I might even settle for a portable KVM if it’s really cheap.

I have a laptop and an Android tablet that I could repurpose, if that helps at all.

  • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
    42·
    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.worldEnglish
      4·
      20 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.socialEnglish
        1·
        5 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.