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PiKVM v3 HAT on Kickstarter right now. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mdevaev/pikvm-v3-hat

// I'm the author ;)

Thanks for sending me the prototype to test; besides the labeling issue, and the fact that I accidentally fried one of the fan power cables (thought I'd burnt up the whole unit!) when I first put it together, it's already a great product. I hope you sell many more thousands, and keep improving the experience!

No problem! I'm glad for constructive comments, it will help v3 to become better. I hope PiKVM will be useful to you.

Same here, I hope you sell a LOT of these, because it's still a bit expensive for my home lab stuff and I want you to benefit from economies of scale so I can buy a hat for around sixty dollars.

you can buy USB hdmi capture dongle for $10, its 1080@30 mjpeg, but nothing beats that price

I just backed your project because of this video. I can't wait to get my hands on it and give it a try.

Thanks! I'm sure you'll like it.

Did you consider a PCIe card form factor w/ a RPI4 compute module?

I have some cheap rackable server w/o KVM feature and I was ready to order an ASROCK Paul https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=P... but looks like I will definitely go for a PI KVMs

It says PiKVM has support to press power buttons etc. Does PC hardware also have means for health checks, to determine if this is needed? Could be a useful feature

This is done by reading the status of the power LED of the PC.

Are there schematics / gerber files / project files available for the Pi-KVM v3 HAT? I would be excited to support an open-hardware project.

It's open source, but not open hardware. All the code is completely free, so closed hardware is our way of monetization to continue development.

Would be awesome after you make some money back if you could open hardware it for those of us who require full trust!

What open-hardware Raspberry Pi alternative would you be using with this then?

After all, hardly any point of having a open-hardware HAT if you connect it to a closed-hardware Raspberry Pi. Even if the full schematics etc were available, the processor on the Pi is anything but open.

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