| Thanks for the tip (and on an unrelated note, thanks for the mini rack video, I hope You do keep playing with that further ;-). I've played with one nanoKVM for a few weeks now and honestly, it's pretty clear from the minute you plug this in that this is a cheap Aliexpress take on a KVM. At the time they introduced this (and unless you count kickstarter projects it's still the case), the other options were an order of magnitude more expensive. For me, there are two major positive things here: 1. it's really impressive how much can be done on a cheap RISC-V. Video stream, USB emmulation, SSH and a VPN and all of that controlled via HTTP interface, running on a board that can be cloned for under $10, possibly much less in larger volumes. 2. they did eventually published the firmware on github That being said, it's pretty clear it's not a finished product. I remember when I was buying it, the description was full of things like "experimental", "development board", etc. And it's pretty much that. Things are unfinished and it screams "quick and dirty" all over the place. Firmware update procedure is a chore, the initial setup will have you disassemble it at least once or twice (if you have the box version) and there are definitely a few facepalm/WTF moments. But at the end of the day, it actually freaking "works". You can get a tailscale connected KVM for around $20-40. And seeing that this is clearly aimed at tinkerers who are running a homelab in their basement and they did give us the option to modify the firmware, I find it really hard to blame them for not paying enough (or any) attention to security. |