A tool which emulates a HID device (keyboard/mouse) to control one PC from another.

This can be used as the Keyboard and Mouse in a KVM - either an IP KVM (like PiKVM) or a laptop KVM.

The PiKVM project makes use of a Raspberry Pi to provide KVM over IP. Simply add an HDMI capture device and some way to do keyboard/mouse control. The PiKVM team provides a couple of ways of doing this, but this project is an alternative to it.

You need to be able to set the override.yaml in a PiKVM install. This typically means:

• Connect via SSH or the web terminal (su - to switch to root user)
• Enable read/write - rw
• Add the below config section - nano /etc/kvmd/override.yaml
  • More information about the config files
• Make readonly - ro

kvmd:
    hid:
        type: ch9329

There exists a project which uses a piece of custom hardware to turn a laptop into a KVM - Openterface - which means you can use your laptop as a PC crash cart. This project can be used as a cheaper alternative.

With a USB HDMI capture device (like this), this hardware and a fork of the Openterface software, you can mimic most of what the Openterface project can achieve.

This is not feature complete - the original project provides more options for host software; a USB port swhich which can be switched between host and target & integrated HDMI capture - but may be a decent alternative for some.