I finally broke down and ordered a mini kit and the known working vga adapter, for right now this is the better device for me.
If you find a way to fit an Ethernet on this uconsole version, I’ll almost certainly buy that too. Having the Ethernet is just something I need for a lot of things I do and USB adapters sticking out the sides is less than ideal. The adapter that has the Ethernet has made the uconsole a much more useful tool in my bag. Now if you can also make that a gigabit connection, that would be really great! Might have to wait for the rumored new cm adapter board that might expose the pci lane on a connector and USB 3.
I’ll buy that version, even with the mini I just ordered.
Every month I need to apply security updates to my XCP-ng cluster and I like to watch each host reboot to make sure things are OK. A VGA to HDMI and this board would be a lot easier for me to monitor right now.
@Greg_E called it correctly. That little slot is indeed a micro-SD, same idea we use on our KVM-GO series. It lets you drop in images, transfer files, or flash an OS installer without juggling extra dongles.
The tiny button next to the USB-C is for switching the SD “mount direction.” You can point the card to your uConsole or to the target device, either by pressing the button or through software control. We’re still polishing the whole board, sanding the edges of the experience so it feels natural in daily use.
If all goes well, hope you’ll like this version enough to adopt it into your uConsole too
Nice! Sounds like a pretty cool setup you’re running. Mind sharing a pic of your XCP-ng workflow? Would love to see it in action. Always fun to see real use cases out in the wild. Thx again for the support, really keeps us going!
Interesting that the SD card can be either local or remote, that would make a lot of things easier.
If any of your prototype boards come out good enough that you can rely on them, let me know and we can do a deal. If not I can wait for the production boards, but I’m going to want to be in the first batch. I got a notice yesterday or today that my mini shipped, that will get some testing pretty soon in my lab, displayport to hdmi. I’m working on setting up a hyper-v cluster and keep making mistakes. These mistakes often change the IP of the machine and make it difficult to find again to remote back in. Setting up a monitor and keyboard is getting old, and not something I can really leave connected right now. A KVM switch would fix it, but not much room left to fit something, and decent ones are more than I want to spend right now.
Looks like Discord is one of the only ways for support, wish they had a more traditional forum. The Windows 11 experience with my Mini is not very good for me right now, left two posts on Discord.
To help us dig in properly, mind filling in our tech-support form for the minikvm? It gives us a better picture and makes it easier to reproduce any quirks on our side. Also welcome to ping us on Discord. my dev team’s usually around for quicker back-and-forth.
On the forum side, yeah… I’ve been thinking about it Maybe something like this Discourse setup here. In a way, Discord is great for fast chatting, but it gets chaotic and hard to organize info after a while.
I figured it out. I had to right click on the .inf file and install the driver this way.
Sorry for the unrelated, I couldn’t get back into the Discord server today but thought I better let you know that I found the solution so you can pass it on to other people. A phpBB or really any other forum running on your website would be much nicer because it is longer term and searchable.
Not sure when I’ll have the time to connect my mini to my uConsole, but part of the plan to be ready for the version 2 with the network jack.
Hey! I just made a quick demo showing how to turn a uConsole into this portable crash-cart KVM that can control a VGA-output PC and even “copy and paste” text by emulating typing.
I also still have a handful of these extension boards sitting on my shelf, and with Black Friday coming up, I’m thinking of doing something a bit wild:
If this demo post hits 300 likes before 28 Nov, I’ll slash the price to 50% OFF, right down to USD 49 for one day only. (Just on 28 Nov. And yes… a real discount, not one of those fake Black Friday ones )
Honestly, I just want to clear out the remaining stock and get these boards into the hands of uConsole users who will actually use them. If you’ve been thinking about adding KVM-over-USB to your uConsole setup, servers, SBCs, Pi clusters, or whatever interesting projects you’re building. This might be the perfect chance.
And yeah… we didn’t quite hit 300 likes for my post, I totally overestimated Yet, whatever the likes is still sth!
Huge thanks for all the support so far! I’ll just go ahead and put it 50% off anyway, so feel free to grab one (or two!) Really appreciate all the support!
Would love to see it in action. Always fun to see real use cases out in the wild. Thx again for the support, really keeps us going!
Maybe something like this Discourse setup here. In a way, Discord is great for fast chatting, but it gets chaotic and hard to organize info after a while.
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showed up as 69 now.. my bad… thanks for putting it up for the community anyway! 