I couldn’t do my job without this. - PiKVM
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:18 Quick Overview
2:16 USB can do anything!
2:49 Family tech supporters rejoice!
3:33 How does it work tho?
5:23 Setup
7:00 At what cost?
9:40 Outro - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Always like to see Anthony, he's a great presenter.
Kind of sounds rude, and kind of does not.
@@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
Easily one of the best for a deep dive... :)
@@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.
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.
Wouldn't the ATX options (front header) be pretty straightforward to wire up anyway?
Honestly, I'm just wondering why latency is so high, assuming the internet connection is fast enough to have really low latency by itself.
its a pi, theres better options of this.
@@arnox4554 Encoding video make pi processor go brrrr would be my guess.
@@arnox4554 latency and speed are completely different.
Anthony is a bloody legend. He always has the most interesting tech to present.
agreed. but should have tapped out of work. just recover and enjoy the quiet time.
Not anymore
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 🧐🤔
*sigh*
*sigh part 2*
*sigh part 3*
Anthony troonmaxxing
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!
yeah lmao the guli kit controller they reviewed went up in price after that video came out too
again? Never went down =/
aren't Pi's already basically sold out? or has that changed in the last few months?
I just bought the HAT and steel case the other day but luckily I had a pi sitting around unused.
Pfft. Overpriced? More like can't buy them at all since Feb.
This is a very attractive alternative for my home network, managing my family's multiple pcs in multiple cities, all without TeamViewer!
What advantages does it have over teamviewer? Except the extra I/O of course
@@antonvroemans5964 Bios access, ability to reinstall pc remotely.
@@Fataha22 teamviewer is free
@@bajroevahahahaha you'd have to set this up in advance + pay for it. You'd have to be in the bios often for this to be worth it I think
@@antonvroemans5964 bro u asked the question and he answered. It wasn't much of an arguement, the product is just useful for other cases.
Anthony is Such a good content creator he has me Interested in things I would never purchase but I want to know more about .
We like this! Finding a spot for it on the blog schedule...
Was just thinking it’d been a while since we’d seen Anthony! Glad he’s feeling better!
Same
Literally one of the best presenters for Linux, retro, and open source devices and software for LTT. Couldn't be better than him.
i hate reading comments on anthony videos precisely cause of comments like urs. no discussion on the content. just exaggerated praise for anthony. its annoying and needs to stop.
@@hadiabdul9266 "wahhh people aren't talking about what i wanna talk about! wahhh" god forbid people have empathy, stfu Abdul
he's clearly eating well.
Happy to see Anthony is doing well after Covid. Love the big guy
Anthony**
Ya his name is Anthony...
haha
Stop watching TV
@@band1t-eats-batteries716 Andy is short for Anthony though?
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.
I agree but I'm sorry I took ur comment from 69 likes to 70 😞
Really like seeing anthony more and more man has absolute confidence in his words
It's always going to be educational and cool when Anthony's presenting.
Class is in session folks.
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
Anthony is probably the most articulated and professional presenter of the whole channel. Long life to ATT !
anthony is the best guy at ltt. He is relatable, down to earth, funny without trying to be funny and he just gives you the straight up facts
supporting family and friends IT for over 20 years now, I feel your pain Anthony!
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.
Anthony is my favorite kind of tech geek man. The genuinely nice ones that are happy to explain things are super super rare
Glad you're ok Anthony. More of this type of content PLEASE!
Missed you, dude. Glad you're better!
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.
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.
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.
@richardbrooks121 I am looking for someone to help me do exactly that since I am not great at tech stuff. I would appreciate some input!
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.
I totally agree with you. Google Remote desktop is the best.
Great to see Anthony back online again; I was starting to worry! As always, a top quality vid for those of us on the system & network side of things.
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.
Love Anthony for his highly technical stuff! Man this would be a life saver for me
We use these at work. Absolutely amazing little guys!
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
I rarely comment but I’m glad everyone had the same reaction I had to this guys presenting skills. I love his voice and his confidence.
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.
seen this one way back , its good to see the project is actually going strong
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
That might just be him getting better at being a presenter. It's a tough skill
He hasn’t changed at all. He’s less camera shy with practice. That’s it lol
Dudes gettin polished AF. =)
I agree but the use of introvert and extrovert is not suited for this comment.
Being an introvert is not a fault. And different than being shy.
I haven't tuned in to LTT for quite a while. Anthony's become INCREDIBLE. The man was born for this.
I'm glad you are feeling better Anthony and getting better soon👍 👌
thank you for the content
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.
Great to here Anthony is felling better again. Looking forward to see more of him :)
These are the cherries I watch LTT for - you actually talk about technology. TY 💯
Pretty cool. Glad you’re still with us
I love so much when Anthony come back, hope he is doing fine on everything!
This is very cool little device. And TBH Anthony is a great presenter hope to see him do more videos.
THIS IS SO COOL!
Anthony, you are the wind beneath my wings; thank you for this!
Definitely glad to hear Anthony is doing better post-Covid!
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 :)
3:03 Now I get why "Anthony" paused at the word "Guy".
this popped up right at a perfect time while i was trying to settle on an alternative to teamviewer for some remote access on some camera systems, got a few of these arriving today to go out and set setup to make my life and work a whole lot easier, thank you!!!
Can we just appreciate how short the sponsor segments are on LTT? It's the only sponsor segments that I don't skip because it's not worth it
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.
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
You can long press the power button or use reset
Love this, I saw some other tech TH-camr using this just a week or so ago and the idea struck a chord with me - really wanted to set one up to my remote server at a colo :)
Glad to see that you are in good recovery.
Antony. Able to make a quality, informative video without cussing up a jake storm or needing to force “humorous” moments. What a great guy!
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.
I picked up the one from AliExpress that takes up a PCI card slot and I LOVE it. So clean, and does everything it should for my UnRaid Server.
glad you beat covid. your presentations are the best!
+1 for PiKVM, I bought the whole kit not assembled over a year ago. Great support in the discord and great active development on this project.
What's the performance vs remote desktop? I would love this if it had better performance than rdt.
Thank you Jonathan! We're glad you're enjoying the product and support.
@@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.
@@hipiio7464 thanks for the info!
Keep yourself as safe and healthy as you can Anthony. LTT wouldn't be the same without you.
the effort though lul
He needs to stop consooming calories like they’re going out of fashion
@@___DRIP___ fat shaming the guru? Was that necessary? smh
@@1slotmech Is it really fat shaming? He would be healthier at a lower weight.
I am glad you are felling better my bro....we want you around, please focus on your health.
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.
BliKVM PCIe is phenomenal
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.
Why would you use it for 1 pc, it has to be one important machine XD
Don't forget about BLIKVM, a slightly cheaper clone available also in a standalone hat, standalone CM4 or PCI-e slot CM4 variant
Yes I love blicube's PCIe with CM4.
Glad you are back and feeling better Anthony
Glad you're feeling better!
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!
' grown so much ' you're not wrong. he must be 25 stone
Oh my god, I know the guy who developed PiKVM.
What a professional speaker. I could close my eyes and Still imagine exactly what he's talking about, very rare for youtube.
Been running PiKVM for over a year now and it's great. I went the DIY route. Another thing that is great is that you can connect a KVM (certain ones work better than others) to it and actually run 4 computers remotely. The documentation and a list of better KVMs for this are on the website. There's even a drop down on the web interface that lets you switch between the computers on the KVM switch.
I'm really happy you're ok Anthony. We can't have LTT without you.
I wonder how useful this would be with pen testers or bad actors considering how quick this thing can be set up.
Yup. Stick a 4g modem on it and it can instantly control any pc remotely when wired in 😅
@@TheEpicAppleEater01 And the local user of the controlled device can see what's going on so it's good for walk thru support - unlike some remote sessions that are exclusive.
I purchased mine back when they first released this kit after seeing Wendell talk about it over on the level1 forum's. The fact that I can remotely control every device in my server rack has been a godsend and has basically replaced my use for IPMI.
I actually had been looking for a solution like this for a while now, I appreciate you sharing your review! Just bought my kit with an 8K hdmi 2.1 splitter for my home setup!
So happy to hear Anthony is doing better! Always happy to see him in a video.
Glad Anthony addressed the unobtanium nature of RPIs. I wonder if it would work with other SBCs with a compatible header.
I built a PiKVM about a year ago and while I don't even use it monthly, when I need it, it is amazing!
Glad to see you back!!
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.
So glad you are backed you are the only one doesn’t drop anything and you are awesome
This was awesome, thanks Anthony.
I do contract IT support - among other things - and my customers have tight budgets, particularly for anything that isn't directly in the critical path to their MVP. Inexpensive options for KVM, without having to invest in a rack unit and dongles - this thing costs about as much as just a dongle - to a single system as a trust-host or troubleshooting starting point whenever something comes up, are very handy for the IT guy on a budget.
I bought one back 3 months ago. I bought the supported 4 port ezcoo KVM. It is working really great. All sorts of tweaks and tricks that you can do with it.
I have used RDP at home to use my work laptop on my personal desk setup. In LAN latency is fine.
It's hard to beat essentially native full-screen multi-desktop/monitor experience - and alternatives still haven't gotten close to how seamless it is.
But naturally, it's not screen sharing, no boot/bios etc and it kind of starts to suck over WAN (even with your own private VPN network, just a bit too high latency).
Just wish the VNC and other similar remote desktop solutions would slightly evolve to have proper multi-monitor/desktop support.
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.
bruh they locked him in a hotel room for 2 weeks - this aint normal no matter how much huggable surface area you have.
literal insanity
@@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.
I’m impressed by the retroconfabulator!
I need one of these. Didn't know what to look for until now. Thanks Anthony!
Anthony seems like such a chill dude to have a beer & talk tech with 🍻 glad he’s doing better.
Anthony is by far the most souvereign host host on LTT and most comfortable in front of a camera 💪
Give Anthony his own in depth tech channel tbh (with Linux). He's got a modern day Richard stallman vibe
I've had one of these for over a year. They are super awesome.
Glad you’re feeling better! I do wish there was a way to do this even cheaper… I have many a Pi, but no muns
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.
mmm....pi....
@@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
@@DoctorX17 hey I never said it would be as good just that it's lighter on the wallet lol good luck tho. I might try the same.
@@Dwykid1 yeah XD compromises on budget usually mean compromises on performance, that’s just how it is
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.
lol this dude got the coof vax scam
KVM's are life savers, glad your feeling better Anthony
So glad I picked up a few pi boards when they were still relatively cheap. After using several up I’m down to only 3 boards. This might just do the trick for my server rack. I was watching this project a year or so ago and was waiting for it to mature.
The man of action is back and in good health! Anthony Tech Tips stronger than ever.
I'm convinced Anthony is the most valuable member in LTT. He's well verse in almost everything technology
Glad to see you back and healthy Anthony!
JUST TODAY I was talking with my colleage into implementing a pikvm into our new render nodes to be able to reset them remotely
SO THANK YOU!
Glad you're feeling mostly better, Anthony. I still don't feel right nearly two years later. I ended up in the ER, on steroids. My dad went into the ICU so obviously our genetics aren't the best, but I'm glad you're good.!
did you get vaccinated?
Hope you’ll get fully recovered soon.
I feel like Covid stole 90% of my energy. The urge to sleep just never stops. I'm not sick, but I'm always tired.
Long haul 😓
my sister had a bad case when i had a mild case, she got the trump treatment and went from almost on a ventilator to basically fine over night.
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
Use an active converter (usb-powered). Those usually work great, as they dont rely on the source or sink giving you the power via HDMI.
Ezcoo hdmi switch has been great for me too! Been running this setup for about 6 months with no issues!
I haven't tried it on PiKVM but VGA to HDMI adaptors don't work in all resolutions (e.g. BIOS bootup sequence) with some solutions..
So good, I've been wanting hardware independent IPMI-like management for the last 10 years, now it is finally there! 🙂 Thank you for a great video, Anthony!
Its been out for more than a year. You can even use hdmi matrix with it.
Anthony is amazing, always love him as a host