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Tag: KVM

Does Your Next Monitor Need a KVM Switch?

2023-12-072023-12-07 Danie
Man sitting at desk with his hands on a keyboard and on a mouse. The screen in front of him is an ultra-wide screen which shows a 50-5- split view with a desktop on the left side, whilst the right side shows a game being played on the same monitor.

I never thought about this before, really for a monitor. I’ve heard about them being used as standalone switches, and still think that may be more flexible. However, if you have one ultra-wide monitor, maybe […]

BlogKVM, KVMswitch, monitors, technology

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 mounted on a $100 BliKVM PCIe card inside a PC grants, with Pi-KVM software, grants remote KVM access

2022-09-212022-09-21 Danie
pci

Yes, one could manually map all the connections yourself to a Pi, but this board is actually quite a nice complete kit with everything needed. It’s interesting that the PCIe slot is really only used […]

BlogKVM, raspberrypi, remoteaccess, technology

PiKVM is a more community based, and fuller featured, remote Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) over IP management solution

2022-05-222022-05-22 Danie
PiKVM

I featured TinyPilot a few days back which is open source, but they exclude the remote USB mount from their open source version, and their focus is more towards a subscription model. It will however […]

Blog#pikvm, KVM, opensource, raspberrypi, technology
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