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1. iron2d+zY[view] [source] 2020-07-23 19:15:57
>>mtlync+(OP)
This is cool. Any chance this would scale for many machines? I have a ~15 machine lab with no KVM setup right now, and could really use something like this if it works for a large number of devices.
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2. jolmg+G21[view] [source] 2020-07-23 19:38:10
>>iron2d+zY
I'm not really into electronics, but I imagine it wouldn't be that difficult to control the switch of a cheap KVM-switch with the GPIO pins of the RPi. One might even control multiple KVM-switches and daisy-chain them.
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3. iron2d+L81[view] [source] 2020-07-23 20:16:22
>>jolmg+G21
Haha, I am kind of the opposite: I work on electronics, and am not much of a sys admin. One of the problems I've run into is that I haven't found a single switch solution with enough connections. I could build a multi-level multiplexer with many switches, but that's too much effort. If TinyPilot can support multiple KVM-over-IP connections, it would be a perfect fit for me.
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4. jolmg+7E1[view] [source] 2020-07-23 22:59:56
>>iron2d+L81
> If TinyPilot can support multiple KVM-over-IP connections, it would be a perfect fit for me.

RPis only have 1 OTG port, though. A device that could get it to handle more machines with that single port would functionally be a KVM-switch. I don't think there's a way around that, at least not one that'd be cheaper or more practical.

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5. tjoff+PL3[view] [source] 2020-07-24 17:05:44
>>jolmg+7E1
Couldn't you just connect a usb-hub?
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