KVMs are unreasonably expensive and my work was about to throw this one in the dumpster. I just need to order some console cables first but Iā€™m really pleased.

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I have IPMI and web interfaces for most gear, I just donā€™t want to have to carry a laptop in every-time I need to tinker.

I also have a bunch of AV switchgear and it would be handy to adapt a multiviewer to one of the VGA ports for monitoring that side of things too.

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If youā€™re comfortable with it, an analog (non-networked) kvm switch can have its button connected to a single input Pikvm via the GPIO. You visit the PiKVMā€™s webpage, hit a button and youā€™re now connected to a different machine.

If you have a raspberry pi 1 or 2, this isnā€™t very expensive, but nets you an open source IP KVM.

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