Laymans guide to wendell's difficulty scale: Configuring this is really easy = 2-3 weekends of tinkering. This basically configures it self /comes preconfigured = 1+ weekends of tinkering. This works straight out of the box = it works straight out of the box.

FINALLY someone covers this project instead of that project profiting off the back of this one that has done all the work.

This is an amazing project, I have been using it for accessing my DVR camera system remotely for 1-1.5 years now. I know it has a security vulnerability, so this keeps it "air gaped"

You should consider partnering with him and integrate one of those into your KVM line.

IPMI sometimes provides more than just remote access: things like sensors readings, system log (ecc errors, etc), but don't think it's even possible to read those things without motherboard cooperation. But for a small home server on a desktop-ish board this box is definitely very useful.

Only tech youtube channel where I actually learn and get excited about actual technology, not only the consumer side...

This was pretty much the final thing that made it possible for me to move beyond the arctic circle! The thing is that my mum needs her computer(s), but she once-in-a-while has trouble that I need to go troubleshoot for her. I can give her one of these and take care of her things even from the middle of nowhere with my phone and/or a tablet! Excellent.

I have a few home made versions and I've been supporting the project. I work on equipment where the operator console is a distance away. I just hook Pi-KVM up to the console and run it all from my laptop from the same area I'm doing my repairs.

Very cool, and thanks as always Amber! Feels like the output is more now. Could also be just my perception or YT doing things.

YES! Best person for the review :D Thanks Level1Techs for all the great content.

I have been using the Pi-KVM for some time now and i gotta say its a must for anybody who needs off-site monitoring

I did a "build your own one" version about a month ago and I'm using it with my homeserver. I think Pi-KVM is one of the the best Pi projects I've ever seen.

The cool thing for me on this is that i can finally use off-the-shelf components and build a true server with remote KVM management, specifically with my Unraid Machine. and not have to worry about BIOS issues or managing it in person.

I use a Pi Zero with Pi-KVM on it as a remotely-reprogrammable flash drive. Don't even use the keyboard/mouse functions half the time, it's just an awesome ISO selector.

Maniac promoting this with the Level1 KVM being a thing.. Cannot provide enough props for this Wendell.

Once it goes up for sale hopefully I will be able to pick one up. A very handy device for when there is no built in BMC.

This is on my list, epic use of the raspberry pi

I'm super happy you were able to get one, been refreshing the US and worldwide sites to buy them since they got listed. have been out of stock with no change since the announcement

I just got mine and got it set up really quickly for sure a great Kickstarter projekt for once!

I'm happy I supported the project.

I love how ip-kvm is just one swapped letter away from PI-kvm

I love hearing really knowledgeable people say things like "dramatically way better" makes me feel dramatically less dumber 👍

FYI: A Kickstarter for the PiKVM V4 has just begun.

FINALLY an IPMI that's secure enough to be accessible from the internet!!!

This is quite powerful! Don't want your infrastructure docker containers (DNS/VPN) to stay down while you reboot your server? Just migrate them to your new shiny IPMI!

Seems very useful!

Lots of cool stuff to see today. Although if your not up to speed on all things Pi you could be lost very quickly. This is definitely Frankenstein‘s tool box! Thanks for sharing.

Agreed! So cool!

I really enjoyed your video. I have seen other videos on these type devices. So far I like yours the best. If I could add one suggestion it would be to call all devices by their proper names instead of 'things'. Educate and inform us. Great video. Keep up the great work.

This thing is AMAZING!

Just ordered mine today. Canada so it was $230 CDN with shipping but pretty excited to get to testing it. Likely will wonder over to the forum to figure out a few things.

Use it for some weeks. Really nice.

Wendell you are TRULY an absolute gem we're blessed to have lmao

2:35 That's exactly what I have! You magician! 🎩

Ah hello IPMI ... I didn't know I needed you until work from home ended and now I'm back at work ;)

Was hoping you'd make a video on this! I've got one sat in front of me now, one of the most exciting projects I've seen in years. What I'd love to know is if I can interface an Arduino with this for power button control, so I can control multiple devices rather than just one (also using a kvm with hotkey support). I want to remotely support four servers with this :)

Thanks Asrock!

Lmao 5:20 that's me, I have an old buggy bios server one I've controlled with a pi for like 10 years.

Thanks. I looking for something like that. I wrote little script for my RPi3 to be able to power on and off remotely, but don't have keyboard emulation and screen. So, I definitely go buy one of this.

Cool stuff.

What would be really interesting is an add-on PCIe PiKVM solution that's internal to the rack mounted system. I would love to see that.

this is why i have internet , all hail our saviour wendell

A bit ago I built my dream 486 however I always wanted to add remote management and any other modernity I could to it. Suspected RPi to be the path but didn't have a clue where to start. Im guessing that this is essentially the system Id imagined.

Have been using this for the past year, breaking all sorts of IT security mandates in the process lol.

I wonder if there is some splitter for DisplayPort 1.4 with DisplayPort passthrough and HDMI out as well so I can connect it between my PC and gaming monitor, and have an HDMI cable to to the streaming PC. I use 1440p and use a 240 Hz monitor. Not sure that would even be possible 🤔

Nice video one small question can i hear the audio from the source pc?

Sick!

The kit does not include the case and the lcd display. Where can I get the case?

I got the latest PiKVM v3 preassembled but it's lacking the USB A next to the fan wonder where did they change that case...

I would of liked a portion of the mobo header pins. i.e power off

I now know what I will spend my money on, when I soon work again :D

NEAT!

So where do you find all the (ALL) components to complete this project as per instructions? Or is this a case of 'See what I can do and you can't.) I would like a unit as demonstrated in video.

L1 is always over my head, but I keep finding solutions for things that annoy me. Keep making content.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 like always any thingy that Wendell gives his stamp of approval, by the time video is set to public it out of stock 😁👌

Word of warning. I noticed the CSI cable appeared to have a conductive tape/film on the outside layers. If this has been added to a standard FFC cable, beware! It totally screws up the cable impedance!! If you do this to a longer cable it will completely stop a CSI camera from functioning due to impedance mismatch!

Two concerns. Is this easy to update and maintain? I ask the the company I work for does vulnerability scans and would require the KVM to be patched. Seems like extra effort. I see the value and I like the power on and off functionality but it look like it doesn't scale well. If I could control 5 servers that would be amazing

I wonder if they have a POE over the network, hat for this kit.

Just curious, if you have 2 normal ethernet ports can you set one to ipmi.

Anyone knows where you can buy ATX ethernet brackets and modules? So you can use it with different pc's on the fly...

Hi! Does this NEED the fan? Is there a fanless version? And how loud is it?

How does the PiKVM shows itself to the target computer device manager?

Haven't been able to get a Pi4 yet. Can you use the POE hat also? 🤔

A couple of questions: 1) it seems like the term "KVM" is overloaded. In the 80s I got a KVM where I had to wire 4 sets of keyboard video and mice cables to the back of a switch and then run a 5th set of cables to my monitor, keyboard and mouse. Y then there was a mechanical switch in the front that I would have to physically turn to the system I wanted to run. Now I'm seeing KVM switches (like the one in this video) with just output and no inputs. What is the advantage of what you have in this video over a KVM like in the old days. 2) multi monitor support. I run 2 monitors, and would like to run 3 monitors. Virtually no KVMs that I've seen have dual monitor support, why? 3) how is what you show in the video superior to just SSHing into a machine?

The hardware bits you are getting don't really add up to $150 but if half is going to support an open source project, I'm fine with that.

Wendell, I do love the idea of combining this with a switchable KVM but only having ATX control over one machine is still killer for me and many others. We'd be better off buying many of the PiKVMs. Is it possible for Level1Techs to create a model of your single monitor x 4 machine KVM with the relevant relays to switch the physical pinouts for the ATX controls between each machine when active in the PiKVM? I'm sure I can hotrod something like this together myself but I think you can sell alot of them. Imagine the ethernet (ATX control) cable from the PiKVM to the Level1KVM then just has a extra ethernet cable for the same ATX controls for each of the downstream computers.

I have 3 people that want to connect to 3 laptops in my home, all need to be seperate(one person cannot have access to anothers laptop). If I buy 3 of these, can I connect 3 laptops to each over one network/router? Any issues with this?

Wendel, you are THE Linux GURU. And you know hardware. with all those audio options on motherboards including Optical and HDMI I was wondering if it was possible if you are ever in the future going to build a home audio system based on a Linux audio distribution? I've seen other people's builds in forms but they never actually go into detail on how they accomplished it and how the process actually worked out from the software configuration standpoint especially since many of these tools are in Linux. I really want to do a software d s p that could be used in mobile applications and I was wondering if you would possibly ever do something like this in the future and make a video you want it has it really would open up the options if someone experienced tried this and was able to get it to work properly with the configuration. with all these motherboards having really good prices and many of them basically being for under $100 and with most of the processing only being CPU bound, all those small mini PCS used in the corporate environment that usually run at around 12 volts would be a perfect addition to mini portable or car audio environments or a home environment for that matter.. would you do something with audio in the future I think that would be really cool thanks Wendell

Will there be hackintosh pi possible?

im sold

can this be a gaming kvm?

Hello, does it work on WAN ?

Wendell when are you getting that risc V soc that was supposed to run linux ?

wonder if you could use the pisugar2 to act as a ups pack to keep the ip-kvm online on a power out situation

As a tech that works for an MSP and works on some fucked up systems, I'm gonna build one of these into a Pelican case and have a built in monitor. Remotely accessible crash cart that I can plug into anything? Fuck yeah! I won't have to keep an LCD monitor and a mouse/keyboard in my truck anymore.

wish this was combined with a switch or something in order to have multiple connections to it. that'd be the dream versus the outdated Java/ActiveX IP KVMs

Does the Level1 KVM Support Logitech Lightningspeed Wireless Keyboard/Mice?

The dislikes are from TP owners who got ripped off

Another great PERC ('scuse the pun) of this is that it'll be easier to update the firmware on lmao... iDRAC is pure HELL to update and I ain't majorly sure about other RMIs because I only one server that has it, and that's a gen 11 DELL PowerEdge.

I'd definitely get one of these to play around with. Doesn't look like anyone with it offers shipping to Canada though.

Still not quite as good as a true BMC, but pretty crazy that it comes so very close in a platform-agnostic add-on manner. I almost want to get one just to fiddle with it... 😁

I feel like they designed this before the compute modules released because using the RPi4 CM would've shrunk the size requirements a ton and probably would've helped make routing all the connections way easier than a hat.

Can't send pictures if it doesn't exist as a pre-order yet. - -- a longtime backer of the project.

Where did you get the case?

This has definitely been a missing piece for my homelab

Whaaaat? An open source project is better than similar software from the "big players" in the arena? I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.

Ok so love the video but the overhead cam was a bit annoying. Heres my dumb suggestion. Draw a box on the table where the overhead cam is looking. Keep the product in the center of that box. Never pick up the product off the table so it doesnt go out of focus.

Coool

Hello Everyone, I need some information on how does this Pi KVM works on the work laptop. My work laptop is located in my house and I would like to travel out of the state without carrying a work laptop. But my office networking guys always monitor my location by checking my IP address and I cant use Team viewers or RDP or VPN routers to access my laptop due to security policies and VPN connection. So I would like to use the PI KVM to access my work laptop remotely But I am a little afraid to do that because of the office security policy configured in my laptop. 1. I would like to know, Does my office IT security know if I connect this Pi KVM to my offie laptop?. 2. How does my work laptop recognize the Pi KVM HDMI and USB when connected to the laptop?. 3.Does my office laptop recognize the Pi KVM as a suspicious device?. Could you please help me with my situation?

Is this for sale? The pishop offers one but the Pi-KVM has an option for pre-order. How does one get the full setup displayed on this video?

The link is only for the hat. Where is the kit?

Would be fantastic if you could power via PoE and rack mount a bunch of these bad boys

So the basic kit is $150? I don't see any options to get an upgraded kit and or the metal case. Am I missing something?

Sold out. :( At least there's a notify list though.

No VGA? You guys must be living in the future. All the servers I work with have VGA outputs.

Cheeto fingers!

It's amazing one/two persons can design an entire fucking service/hardware combo better than a billion dollar companies fleet of software developers. It's fucking sickening.

Will that tiny fan actually make any meaningful difference to thermals and performance?

cool

Dam you Wendel, It's out of stock !! did you buy everything !! xD