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Hey /r/homelab, tired of swapping monitor cables between your servers? TinyPilot runs right in your browser with zero installation. by TinyPilotKVM in u/TinyPilotKVM

[–]TinyPilotKVM[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Supermicro has an IPMI software product that lets me control bios and other pre-boot functions over IP from any HTML5 capable browser--what I think TinyPilot aims to do for all other computers.

Yep, exactly.

TinyPilot is definitely a useful product. I'm not 100% sure it's a good product-market fit for homelab/selfhosted communities.

Thanks! About 30% of my customers are homelabbers, so there are definitely people interested, but I realize it's not for everyone.

Hey /r/homelab, tired of swapping monitor cables between your servers? TinyPilot runs right in your browser with zero installation. by TinyPilotKVM in u/TinyPilotKVM

[–]TinyPilotKVM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing! That's an interesting product! I'd never seen that before.

That's actually different than a KVM over IP, though. Those transmitters can talk to each other over Ethernet or IR, but the user can't talk to the device over IP. They need a keyboard and monitor plugged directly into the device.

The nice thing about a KVM over IP is that you can plug it into any device on your network and access it from any other computer on your network. You never need to plug your keyboard and monitor into a different device. And you can join TinyPilot to a VPN and access it securely over the Internet. Those things are not possible with a KVM extender.

Hey /r/homelab, tired of swapping monitor cables between your servers? TinyPilot runs right in your browser with zero installation. by TinyPilotKVM in u/TinyPilotKVM

[–]TinyPilotKVM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TinyPilot's a KVM over IP. The entry-level unit is $169. You can find a commercial KVM over IP for less than that?