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Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

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756 points mtlynch | 3 comments | 23 Jul 20 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.604s | source
1. cmer ◴[23 Jul 20 15:05 UTC] No.23928077[source]▶
This is a game-changer! Thanks for all your work on this.

Do you have any plans to allow controlling more than 1 computer remotely? I'd love to implement this in my homelab.

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2. mtlynch ◴[23 Jul 20 15:20 UTC] No.23928251[source]▶
>This is a game-changer! Thanks for all your work on this.

Thanks for reading!

>Do you have any plans to allow controlling more than 1 computer remotely? I'd love to implement this in my homelab.

Right now, I can't think of a way to do this. The Pi only has one USB OTG port, so I don't know of a way to share that among multiple machines.

A friend suggested an interesting solution of chaining TinyPilot together with a "dumb" multi-machine KVM that supports switching via hotkey. So it would go:

TinyPilot -> legacy KVM -> server1, server 2, ...

You could still use a web interface and hop between servers using keyboard shortcuts that the legacy KVM understands.

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3. cmer ◴[23 Jul 20 18:28 UTC] No.23930541[source]▶
That's a really great and simple idea, actually. I might give this a try.