Chrzr

joined 10 months ago
[–] Chrzr@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Take a look at the Raspberry Pi based PiKVM. You can also find kits based on the original design for a third of the price on amazon.

Keyboard and mouse would still be plugged into the desktop, the kvm emulates both via USB

 

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From top to bottom:

  • LogiLink W12A40B 19" rack
  • Mikrotik hAP ax³ access point
  • AVM FRITZ!Box 7530 provider modem
  • Sophos SG115v3 running PfSense (connected to the modem via RJ45/fiber converter - damn you lightning :( )
  • Mikrotik CSS610 Switch
  • Custom 2U Unraid SSD-only NAS
    • ASrock DeskMeet Mainboard (fits perfectly :D)
    • Intel Core i3 12100
    • 64GB RAM (probably overkill, but this was my main server until recently)
    • 2x2TB ZFS pools (enough for my needs)
  • Proxmox cluster
    • 3xDell Wyse 5070 (16-32GB RAM, each with 2x500GB mirrored ZFS Pool)
  1. HomeAssistant, Mosquitto, Zigbee2Mqtt, NodeRed, Grafana ...
  2. Frigate with Coral TPU, Syncthing, CUPS ...
  3. The 5070 Extended is currently used for testing, intended as spare in case one node dies
  • 2xDell Wyse 3040
    • Just for fun, currently not in use :^)
  • PiKVM - newest addition, currently testing. Need to get a HDMI/USB KVM to connect multpile hosts
  • Eaton Ellipse ECO 1200 USV