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

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756 points mtlynch | 4 comments | 23 Jul 20 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.795s | source
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x87678r ◴[23 Jul 20 15:12 UTC] No.23928167[source]▶
This looks awesome. I was looking for a solution like this last year. I budgeted a few hundred bucks but couldn't find anything. Ideally would have a way to handle a few different boxes.

I did see something called Intel AMT, part of Intel vPro. https://www.howtogeek.com/56538/how-to-remotely-control-your... Does anyone have experience with this? (I have AMD box so doesn't help me) - actually looks like AMD has similar https://developer.amd.com/tools-for-dmtf-dash/

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1. Haemm0r ◴[23 Jul 20 15:49 UTC] No.23928596[source]▶
It works, however you need a non-free special client called VNC Viewer Plus [1]. Afaik it is Windows only. You can enable regular VNC protocol capabilities for AMT[2], but then you can't use the interesting stuff anymore.

[1] https://www.realvnc.com/en/products/viewerplus/ [2] https://blog.michael.kuron-germany.de/2011/10/using-intel-am...

//edit: link [2] added.

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2. tyingq ◴[23 Jul 20 16:01 UTC] No.23928761[source]▶
This seems to show a reasonable option from Linux: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/remotely-access-intel-amt-kvm-...
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3. vetinari ◴[23 Jul 20 19:11 UTC] No.23931087[source]▶
You can use meshcommander[1], which has a nodejs version that runs under linux and mac.

Then you just have to pay attention to your certs (if you are using https), because browser policy will apply.

[1] https://www.meshcommander.com/meshcommander

4. plett ◴[27 Jul 20 11:24 UTC] No.23964026[source]▶
I've used instructions similar to those to get AMT KVM working with a normal VNC client, it works fine. The only catch is that the AMT seems to intercept all traffic to port 5900 coming in through the NIC, not just that addressed to the IP of the AMT. It's only the "legacy" port 5900 VNC which is affected, the other ports such as 16992 for AMT's web admin are unaffected.