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I don't want people to think TinyPilot is a bad option but this is where their marketing really grinds my gears. PiKVM and TinyPilot both have preassembled ordering option.

TinyPilot's compare and contrast point of "To exercise the full functionality of PiKVM, users must install a custom circuit board on top of their motherboard and re-route their power supply's ATX pins." is a complete farce (it's not required) and worded in an intentionally scary way (the only reason TinyPilot doesn't have this requirement it doesn't offer the feature while PiKVM does). The "custom circuit board" is literally a PCB that, optionally, allows you to jumper the inline the remote power controls in a way that the normal power buttons still work too rather than rely on ACPI signalling over USB.

It honestly makes my blood boil to see this underhanded approach works so well... the TinyPilot device is good though, as are some other options. Just keep in mind if you opt to go with ACPI only remote power controls via USB things may still go bad if your system hangs/crashes/gets in a weird power state whereas plugging in the wires to the PiKVM will be no different than holding the power button.



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