@@habutf yeah because “great” obviously means that he’s fat How is this offensive? And my Dutch opinion: Anthony, 10/10 personality, but please get an healthier lifestyle, in 2080 I would like to have your opinion to be still there
@@ixyzyxi i think you answered your own question. I'd personally just avoid the pitfall and call him awesome, because he is. Sorry for the comment, could not resist to see the 2 sides.
@@ixyzyxi or maybe he should live the lifestyle he actually wants as he's an adult. You aren't aware of his medical history either. Why can't people just enjoy the people they like without the critique.
@@jasong782 RDT will usually be faster because it uses the remote machine's hardware for video encoding, and that is usually superior to a Pi's performance. Where the PiKVM shines is the ability to do BIOS and OS work. Those are impossible with RDT.
Glad Anthony is back on the presenting game. COVID is no joke when it comes to people with a more huggable surface area, I'm glad it didn't turn out to be serious for him.
@@permacultureecuador2925 , he was stuck in the US and couldn't go back to Canada, thus hotel room. He wasn't locked in like earlier pandemic days, they just would let him through the border without a negative test.
That actually is pretty neat. I've had a server room in my house for over 10 years and still don't have any form of KVM as KVM rack consoles just cost too much and I don't have room for a separate monitor keyboard and mouse. This could be a suitable solution for me.
THANK YOU for the Discord comment. I’m tired of communities and companies using it as an information repository. It’s great for what it’s DESIGNED to do though. I think it’s that it’s free and easy to just spin up a server. So that’s what people do.
The year is 2031. Robots roam the desolate wastes hunting desperate enclaves of survivors. Less than 50,000 humans remain. Plus side, the Raspberry Pi is finally in stock.
Glad you guys are finally covering this, although I am sad It might send the Pi's into overpriced mode again. But I have a whole fleet of these, and love them!
I was just thinking to myself: "where did Anthony go? I hope he is okay" Glad to see you're doing better and happy to see you back in front of the camera
It's weird, I thought this morning "Hey, I wonder why Anthony hasn't been in any of LTT's videos" It's almost like You Tube read my mind hahaha...haha...ha. ummm 🧐🤔
I built the DIY zero 2w option. You don't even miss the ATX options mostly if you can use wake on lan on the host. I think the DIY option is a perfect beginner project as well, while you can save a lot of cash.
I'm hoping that folks get more software support for things like the Radxa Rock 4. They're an extra tenner per unit, but at least you can still buy one, the GPIO is pin compatible and they are slightly more powerful. Don't get me wrong, I love Raspberry Pis, but there's no point if you can't buy one.
Gosh, I’m always blown away with how good of a host Anthony is. Like I know he’s a good host, but every time he hosts, I’m always blown away with how easy his voice is to listen to, and how his delivery is always on point.
This product would be great as an actual PCIe card. You know, mounted and cable managed within the PC case itself, close to all of the connectors it needs, leaving no external box to hide away.
I think it's also worth mentioning the option of buying a motherboard with IPMI integrated on the board. These are more expensive than typical boards but could end up being cheaper than adding this after the fact. There are obvious drawbacks to this approach too but it is an option.
IPMI would never be cheaper as you can't take it to a next motherboard if you upgrade. PiKVM will have the same interface and functionality regardless of motherboard you use while being a one time purchase. And you can use PiKVM with multiple machines as it supports managing several common KVM switches.
Or you could just develop your environment in a way that you don't have to click through crap like it's 2004 and your services are highly available. This is really only useful when stuff breaks and you don't understand proper infra management or hardware breaks and you want confirmation through watching post, which is also dumb. The learning curve for this makes it not worth it. Just write some infrastructure as code so you aren't coupled to any individual install and learn actually useful skills along the way.
@@PinkFZeppelin And what happens if you are managing said infrastructure at a datacenter halfway across the world and a machine craps out? Your options are pretty much to fly out an employee (or yourself) to fix the problem, hire some external remote hands to troubleshoot the problem, or pray to god that your datacenter's remote hands technicians aren't total monkeys and can help you get the information you need to fix the problem (which is almost never possible). Literally every other solution is more expensive than a $250 device you can very easily instruct a remote hands tech to attach to a server in 15 minutes. Alternatively, most server motherboards come with IPMI installed, but these boards are commonly out of stock or are priced far higher than equivalent consumer boards (the only difference being a lack of on-motherboard IPMI).
@@KevinRaneri If you're maintaining a service in a data center and you're bound to particular install/hardware, you got issues. Individual bare metal and os layer should be able to die and not create impact. I mean we've had clustering forever and there's way better approaches today. The data center tech will get to it within SLA. Or they machine just stays dead in the rack forever. Not uncommon with modular data centers. You don't even need it for deployments. The best argument for bmc like ilo or idrac is hardware troubleshooting, but someone on site is going to have to touch it at that point to replace the part. That's the whole point of "infrastructure as code"
@@PinkFZeppelin "Infrastructure as Code" is great, but it handwaves away the fact that somebody, somewhere, has to maintain the actual physical hardware your VMs are running on. For those people, IPMI is a necessity. There are also many other reasons why you'd want to run bare metal over using VMs or even a provider like equinix metal, cost being a HUGE one (spend $2000/m for a single machine, or spend $2000/m plus a bit of upfront capex for an entire rack, plus network and power). Some applications actually require bare metal access to hardware, think things like eBPF/XDP, DPDK, etc). Imagine you're running a DDoS mitigation service. You just can't do that without having racks in datacenters, cross connects with T1 ISPs, and managing all of the bare metal mitigation systems yourself (because they have to be bare metal, because virtualizing it is ridiculously inefficient and makes no sense from a technical perspective because everything is physically connected anyways). And if one machine shits the bed, that's fine, but at best, your mitigation capacity is reduced until you can get the machine back online. This is just one example, but there are many, many more good reasons to not use these sorts of cloud providers and own your hardware.
KVMs are underappreciated. I used to have an a remote app that allowed turning off and rebooting on our servers from off site when I was an IT admin. Can't think of the name atm. I can relate to trying to talk someone through diagnostics and fixes over a phone. It's almost impossible to do so. Used to tell friends that would call me, "I'm not even going to try and help you over the phone. Let me come to you or bring the computer to me."
Yeah KVMs seem like a lifesaver, too bad they're so expensive.... I suppose they're technically a 'nice to have' and not a 'need to have' so most companies wouldn't prioritize getting them, but man it sure beats spending time in the loud server room
VNC server can be run in client mode. I had it packaged up so someone on the other end could download an executable zip and it would unpack itself and automatically connect to the VNC client running in server mode on my (and others') computers. As long as the remote user could boot and had internet access, it worked great.
With you on the Discord servers Anthony! People that have always been there and don't need to find old information always seem to be oblivious to this problem. I wonder if they've never joined an existing project or server. Particularly for small open source projects the documentation available if you're not already up to date can make onboarding without just bugging the crap out of everyone avail can be a headache. Even if the community in question might be up for it I'm usually not. I'd like to have read/played with and have at least cursory knowledge of a project/topic/hobby so I can at least know what to ask and how to phrase those questions to get useful answers.
Man I'd love a series or even a channel just with Anthony covering RPi projects, home server stuff and in general QoL fun projects to do with tiny/old machines
there's also blikvm that does the same thing, and has the ATX info built into it, but it's only available via aliexpress. they are working on making a PCI-E card for it as well so it's all sitting inside the pc if anything.
There is 1 feature I think these KVMs should include, specially because they already have most the hardware to enable that particular feature, the only missing part is a Relay board with relays capable of switching enough amps/volts for the task at hand, specifically actually cutting the power to the computer and turn it back on directly at the power cable :P
As soon as he said it has a USB port and an HDMI port it all clicked. It seems so obvious now. I'm surprised there aren't a lot more devices like this. This could easily be adapted to game consoles for example.
Anthony you were terrible at these videos during the start, I mean pretty bad bud. Sorry to point that out but it needed to be said. But no matter what you grinded away and never gave up. Mad props because with all that hard work and perseverance you have gained a confidence and personality that’s truly become a staple personality to LTT. continue to kill it at the more technical aspects of the LTT team! Looking forward to more videos.
For helping non-IT savvy relatives I have always preferred Chrome Remote Desktop. Mostly everyone can use a browser and you just have to teach them to install a plugin. Then its just following instructions on the screen and you are connected to their Desktop. I have helped relatives on the other side of the earth with "Chrome Remote Desktop", its nothing fancy but it is very useful. You can be given control of the remote machine and then you can do whatever you want.
In the server world, we use a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller). It provides pretty much the same functionality with the added benefit of being able to configure the BMC via the server. This is really cool tech and it's awesome to see this coming to consumer desktops.
Jeff Geerling covered a version of this that fits in a pcie slots that's all in one based on the computer module 4. It has the power and HDMI in on the pci bracket and has internal USB instead of normal USB.
Saw this a while ago and totally forgot about it. One of my labs boxes has no BMC. Mainly because it's a repurposed workstation board ( rather old now ) This is ideal. Hopefully the vendor will have the complete kit in stock soon
These things are awesome! I got one, and I was able to mod it slightly to allow me to share the ssd connected to the pikvm to the computer the pikvm was monitoring. Allowing me to worst case scenario install a os onto the computer via the pikvm ssd if the computers hard drive died and I needed the computer back online that day.
I haven't done this personally but from what I researched, all you need is a USB capture card and a USB male A to male A cable cable. It doesn't give you the ability to fancy stuff like cold booting via the headers but it'll turn on and work for much less than their asking price for the hat.
@@Dwykid1 controlling the power/reset from the header is easy, just need to use the GPIO to toggle a transistor attached to the header. Performance of that and a USB capture card may not be as good as the hat, which is optimized for it, but yeah, that might be an option! I should try it, I have one of those USB captures
I didnt know Marcus King also was into computers. Very neat! Sorry your fingers are still beat up from all that guitar playing. But this is pretty neat. The fully built option seems way worth it and takes out any possibilities for issues or headaches. May not work great in a big corporate environment but great for small networks and such.
Been around for a while now but the changes to you Anthony is amazing, from a shy, introvert guy to an ecstatic, happy and more extrovert person is just amazing. I am glad
With a HDMI switch that can be controlled via USB, you can actually turn PiKVM into a multi-node IP KVM switch. Currently using mine for 1 other Pi, and 2 desktops. You swap between which computer you're viewing via the web interface.
PiKVM is amazing, and BliKVM makes a number of great hardware solutions including a rack mountable Rpi4 hat, a PCI slot form factor, and a sleek box utilizing the CM4. Highly recommended.
I'd love to see a whole series like this, go around the office and have someone present a little segment on their favourite bit of kit atm, everything from their macro keyboard, to some else's home VR setup. Think it would be really cool to get to know the staff and a little about their day to day more :)
I wanted to build PiKVM since last year, but could not get hold of Pi4 anywhere (without paying outrageous price). Pre-assembled one will be cheaper right now, but I didn't want spend that much money.
If you want a neat PiKVM package inside your computer, I can recommend a recent video by Jeff Geerling, who reviews the BliKVM board which takes a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and sits in an empty PCIe slot: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cVWF3u-y-Zg.html
This thing has been awesome. I am also using it with the EZcoo 4-port HDMI switch. only problem is that i have boards with VGA only output that it can't detect. Still looking for a converter cable that works
@@permacultureecuador2925 bruh, by the time I die I’m going to have gone through SRS and tons of hormones, so it would be quite the chore to identify my body as male. If you’re going to be transphobic at least be correct.
So basically ilo or idrac for your home PC, I don't see how this appeals to the enterprise but I guess for home stuff I guess it gets around just using TeamViewer and wol, but pretty sure just using the pi for the wol is more secure, still kind of cool but yeah steam is the only remote type thing I've done and it works well is I can play Xbox/PlayStation remotely with my own VPN and virtual here USB on my phone and the PC, shares the controller directly from my phone as if it's plugged in at home, I don't even think you need VPNs anymore to stream games from home now but you used to but for non steam games like Xbox app and PlayStation remote play you still do as it needs to detect the controller. Only used it to show people it's possible to play Detroit become human and master chief collection/tomb raider on the phone remotely from anywhere, response isnt too bad with a decent connection but it does give you a slight input lag so it's only really good for casual games. But yeah sucks there's already stuff better that's included with an old second hand server that can do all of this for less money using the ilo/idrac
@ Anthony or really anyone on this thread: Know where I can find a USB-C splitter with a switch on it? Essentially I want to share 1 dock with multiple computers. Apparently this does not exist or I'm not using the right search terms.
ive gotta say this, Anthony from the first time we saw you on LTT to now, youve grown so much and its amazing to see the progress youve made over the years. ive always loved watching your videos cause it gets really into the niddy gritty of the nerd stuff and its always a treat to watch. keep it up Anthony!
Built one of these 8 months ago and was able to permanently relocate to another province in Canada and still keep my IT support job. PiKVM totally rocks.
If you want to use a Raspi Zero 2 W, then you can use a cheap "HDMI to USB dongle" for like 10$ on ebay, ali, .. instead of the 24-30$ "HDMI to CSI board" + Raspi Zero adapter ribbon. It's also handy if you don't plan on designing one case for everything, since the dongle already has a case.
Jeff Geerling has a video on BliKVM (I hope it's called that anyway). I find it more adequate for TowerPCs and the likes. Having this PiKVM would be a solution for laptops for me. I like these two and I guess, I'll get at least on of them as I found myself wanting to use my PC for whatever reason when I'm out in the middle of nowhere (or just at my mom's place lol). They're so useful! Unfortunately, I haven't come around building one, yet. I hope it may change by the end of this year :D
Big fan of Emily, hope she's still able to contribute behind the scenes if she's not going to be in front of the camera anymore. Still want that Linux channel.
I have six of them, I agree they are very handy. I named one "floater" that I move between machines and have it loaded up with various Windows and Linux images along with memtest86 in case I need to run a ram test remotely. Only downside is they don't ship the PCIe metal bracket with the kits or pre-made ones but you can 3D print them or scavage them from old NICs, I found some on ebay that almost lined up perfectly so it wasn't a big deal and apparently the official metal bracket is on the way. Hopefully the raspberry pi successors and this project keeps going with a solution that could maybe fit in a PCIe slot or maybe in a spare drive bay. Hopefully they build in ATX control muxing so that one pikvm paired with an HDMI + USB mux (mouse, keyboard, iso mounting) could remotely control multiple servers (that's why I have 6 instead of say ... 2 of them).
I had COVID. It was shit, and I take all possible precautions to never get it again. I'm glad that you're feeling better, Anthony. Keep up the good geek work. Regards from a fellow Linux-based OS user.
