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cheap remote kvm (lemmy.world)
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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.

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[–] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 12 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.

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