 Tommy here from our systems. We're going to talk about the tiny pilot IP KVM right here. This is a clever little device I really like Raspberry Pi projects or something just kind of fun about them and I like IP KVM But I've never liked a lot of the commercial offerings because a lot of them just didn't quite work as well as I thought they could They were usually based on some type of weird Java application interface or proprietary browser and we're kind of expensive now This is a single KVM. So we're not talking about one that splits into many So you're not going to take this one device and control ten devices with it Or are you and I bring that up because they are is limited support and they do have a list Which I'll show where they do allow this to be plugged into like a four-port HDMI KVM a two-port one or eight-port one here and they have some limited Compatibility with a couple of these so this list is probably growing and this is what it looks like in April of 2021 But that list may get longer. We did test and it did work with this older IO gear to port one that we had But it didn't work with our IO gear for port one. We're not really sure why it's kind of a mystery But nonetheless, at least there's a couple of them on that list that maybe you have or can find for a relatively good price But for our dough today, we're only hooking up to a single computer specifically a laptop So let's dive into the tiny pilot project now full disclosure up front This was sent to me by Michael of tinypilotkvm.com and as they see right here It is an easy to use low-cost device to manage your servers You can access your server before it even boots. So yes, there's no problem going into the BIOS the USB keyboard mouse combo that it emulates from the Raspberry Pi. It works perfectly fine in a BIOS Lightning fast keyboard and mouse forwarding fast high quality video capture. That's true, too. No problem 30 frames a second at 1280 by 720 with about 200 milliseconds of latency all those things are true But I wanted to kind of dive into a real world use case scenario and what I mean by real world is I've restricted And I just logged in SSH 10 and did it as I perf. I restricted this all the way down to About 500 kilobits a second by doing this I've simulated what it might be like to manage this thing remotely now I'm not going to really account for any latency you may have over remote that's going to be varied But assuming you have a normal connection without too much latency, but maybe more bandwidth restriction over a VPN That's what I wanted to demo this as it definitely worked perfectly fine without any latency when you're doing it In real time on the same network But I know the reality of it is and where a lot of IT providers may be Interested in a product like this is managing those one-off devices our clients have or home labs that go Hey, I don't have IP and my am I motherboard or a lights out management system or an iDRAC system So I want to be able to manage these computers you can do this and of course being able to do it remotely That's even better. So here is what the tiny pilot looks like Even over and you can kind of see where I move the mouse there's a slight delay even over a 500 kilobit connection. So yes, it will or at least should work perfectly fine and most VPN situations Typing as well. So let's go ahead and type in notepad here This is whoops my backspace you can see this is actually pretty usable Except for now I chipped too many times backward this is a test so there's a little bit of lag with this level of bandwidth restriction, of course, this would be even faster if you're dealing with something that's remotely a terminal and You know, that's gonna be probably a pretty likely scenario for us where we have a few clients with devices that well They only put out a basic terminal interface over VGA because they're older devices This is kind of a cool way. I'd be able to get access to and manage that now Let's talk about the VGA adapter this I tested I don't have it plugged into the laptop that I have kind of off to the side here We're doing the testing on but this has HDMI out so HDMI in but we did test a few devices with the VGA adapter That does include this IO gear because the only output on this happens to be VGA in and VGA out some older Device that we had in a box that we got out just for playing with and when we connected it like this it worked fine I was actually Shocked at how well this works now if you're wondering what the extra little USB cable is dangling here That is because you do need to power converting VGA to HDMI They are different protocols So there's a chip in here that has to be powered up to convert and get them talking to each other But hey pretty clever that this exists so I can take something that's VGA Power it up and plug this into usually the computer that I'm pulling from the VGA from to give this power now How does the rest of this work? That's pretty easy here is the tiny pilot with a 3d printed case They provide says tiny pilot on the side well, well made well machined is actively cooled with a fan But don't worry it uses such a little processor. It doesn't really seem to even get warm at all This is the little power adapter that says tiny pilot on here We have the data versus power in split and if I want to power off the pie I could just do this only takes about a minute to boot up over on the other laptop We just have the HDMI plugged into the HDMI port and then we have the USB plugged in right here They provided all the cables and everything in the kit when you order this so everything's complete when you're buying these Which is nice This is actually a nice feature of the tiny pilot and kind of how they are marketing this So the project itself is open source. You can download all the source code or They offer a support model version and a turnkey version and that's what this essentially is is a kit My heart is with all the people who are the DIYers and want to build everything themselves because I'm definitely doing that many times other times I want something that I Can buy that solves a problem and I love that it's based on open source But it can be nice to have someone offering a turnkey solution because some people do not want to or do not have The time to invest in DIY so I'd like the fact that they're catering to both markets with this product And let's cover that really quick so you can go to their website Here is the tiny pilot Voyager, which is the one I have in front of me if you go click on the details of that you will be able to order that and For 15 extra dollars get the VGA module. They have a hobbyist kit They have a tiny pilot power connector and they have the tiny pilot pro license the pro license gives you updates and support so if you wanted to get Updates that work right through the browser and I'm gonna show you how that works was go back over to here You go to system and we can say update It'll see if there's a new version and see if there's an update available That's part of the support package that comes with it I think that's kind of a clever to build this all-inclusive with a turnkey option like that Then we go over here and say what about changing the security on it go to security Require using a password. You're just a checkbox away out of the box It already ships with HTTPS enabled for the remote access pretty straightforward by so recommend in terms of setting this up if you were to deploy this at a client you're probably gonna want to put this over on a Separate network that is you know your management VLAN and lock it down like anything else that well is a management platform For control of a network because this is giving you direct access keyboard and mouse to a system there But of course you can SSH in and change all the credentials and right through the web interface without any SSH access You can go here and add a username or password to it of note while we were testing here It has no problems with multiple people at the same time logging in and being on this system So I thought that was actually kind of clever. I'll scroll down a little bit though You can see you do have a full keyboard here. So if you want to do things like press alt control and delete You can certainly do that and we'll send that Command there and same thing with any F keys print lock scroll lock all the keys are available Also has the option of going full screen. So doing this kind of gives you a nice instant full screen access to that particular system And like I said, even with this restriction of low bandwidth on here I'm actually just amazed at just how well this works in the frame rates it supports of note and I will do this real quick I'm gonna unplug it and plug it back in and show you it jumps to different resolutions without a problem So if we plug it back in again, you'll see it doesn't take any time at all here we go and Now I'm going to restart this computer power restart and Watch the resolution change even while it's plugged in without any problems at all This is something that some KVMs will get stuck on unfortunately is waiting for the resolution change as far as you have the power Secondly KVM. I never had that be the case here Going into a BIOS going into this and connecting different machines. Whatever the resolution is it just seems to take it like a champ and reef Yeah, adjust and Away we go. So that that part worked really really well and I will mention the elephant in a room I have it a tab over here other people say what about the pie KVM isn't that another project or is this a fork of that project? They are completely separate projects. I find it interesting They're both fairly mature projects the pie KVM for those you that have probably already pointed this out in the comments Already has the CD-ROM and flash drive support and that's something that is on the future to-do list for the tiny pilot KVM Maybe by the time you watch this video, it's available But it is a add-on feature they are working on to allow you to have images on here So you could actually go into the BIOS tell it mounts an image you would emulate a CD-ROM and Be able to or a flash drive essentially and be able to boot off of that image so you could remotely reload a system But my overall on this I really like the project I like the fact that it's turnkey complete very simple to use and I didn't even have to ask any questions to develop or when it came to support They sent me a little sheet that had the username and password to SSH into this the web interface by default comes completely unsecured So I really recommend checking those boxes if you buy this kit as a project to secure it But hey from an ease of use out of the box It was really really simple plugging in the VGA adapter and all that no problems at all It just everything fired right up and worked I like that they provided these USB cables the ones that are kind of like the fabric wrapped ones because this feels like nice quality Nothing felt cheap the case felt well made nothing is like Cheap feeling I guess the best way I can describe it So it feels like a good quality device that I hope will live for a long time of No, what would be really cool is not to have a fan in it though And I bring that up just because well and obviously it's something you can change out yourself But when you're using a fan if you plan to put this at a clients and it plans to sit there for the next several Years monitoring some device or allowing road access to said device Fan sometimes fail and not having a fan would be that much better. Just have it passively cool Other than that I do like the product and I'll leave a link to Their website where if you're interested in buying one or just go to the GitHub and download the project and load it on your own Raspberry Pi and play with it yourself. All right. Thanks And thank you for making it to the end of this video if you enjoyed this content Please give it a thumbs up if you like to see more content from this channel Hit the subscribe button and the bell icon to hire a sure project head over to Lawrence systems calm and click on the Hire us button right at the top to help this channel out in other ways There's a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated For deals discounts and offers check out our affiliate links in the descriptions of all of our videos including a link to our shirt store We have a wide variety of shirts and new designs come out. 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