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Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by mikyopii@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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KVMs are unreasonably expensive and my work was about to throw this one in the dumpster. I just need to order some console cables first but I'm really pleased.

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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

PiKVM?

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

350USD? Yeah not that cheap either...

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Roll your own 😎 lots of folks have a pi 2 that's not doing much

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

...How? Yeah I have a Pi3 and a Pi4 lying around without much use at the moment. But how do I handle the inputs/outputs etc?

[–] Menteros@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago

HDMI to CSI Camera Adapter. Then you hook it up with PiKVM. https://docs.pikvm.org/v2/#required-parts

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have IPMI and web interfaces for most gear, I just don't want to have to carry a laptop in every-time I need to tinker.

I also have a bunch of AV switchgear and it would be handy to adapt a multiviewer to one of the VGA ports for monitoring that side of things too.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you're comfortable with it, an analog (non-networked) kvm switch can have its button connected to a single input Pikvm via the GPIO. You visit the PiKVM's webpage, hit a button and you're now connected to a different machine.

If you have a raspberry pi 1 or 2, this isn't very expensive, but nets you an open source IP KVM.