JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (jetkvm.com)

Has been for close to a week now! Mine is already through Canadian customs after shipping from China. Purchased via Wisdpi.

I think they opened sales the same day that GL.iNet announced their new cloud KVM.

PiKVM seems to be the large competitor here and is completely open source. If you're looking into KVM solutions, probably check it out, but JetKVM is over 50% less, which is a huge argument in favor of it.

https://pikvm.org

Just a FYI - many people[0] (including myself) have had serious issues with JetKVM.

In my case, I found it is not compatible with all HDMI sources but others just have unknown "Loading video stream..." issues.

[0] https://github.com/jetkvm/kvm/issues/84

From the specs it's very annoying this uses a mini-HDMI. There's room for a full HDMI port, and it's such a waste. We all have dozens of HDMI cables at home, but zero mini-HDMI.

I've been looking for something like this, but with a built in LTE modem.

Also, where do you buy (IoT?) Sim cards cheaply, valid over entire continents or worldwide?

Why not combine the ATX board and the unit itself, and have a real HDMI port? This seems like a mess of cables and dongles.

I've been satisfied with NanoKVM lite. Cheap and does what i want.

I've been really happy with my JetKVM. The tariff situation is unfortunate, my recollection is that it was something like $50 during the kickstarter (could be wrong, didn't check). Looking around a bit, I'm not sure I see anything remotely as hackable at a competitive price, so maybe $90 is still a great deal.

It would be awesome if they made a PoE version.

I've been using it since I got it. It's been working great with one small issue that I haven't been able to solve. For some reason when I use plasma on Arch linux (but not ubuntu), the display outputs garbage. I'm guessing it's not detecting the EDID correctly and setting a weird resolution or refresh rate. It's not a major issue since other desktop work well so I haven't spent much time looking into it.

As others have said, a full size HDMI port would be nice. However, I've been very satisfied with my JetKVM. I was about to order the GL.iNet KVM they just launched, but I ended up picking up another JetKVM now that sales are open.

My use-case is that I have it connected to an Raspberry Pi which I use to test the RPi builds of my application. I just ordered a second to connect to a mini-PC which is the minimum spec supported by my application. It has made my testing experience very smooth.

I couldn't see if it could "press" the reset button.

I wish there was a KVM out there that didn't need HDMI, where it sat on PCIe bus and presented a really dumb framebuffer/kb/mouse to the BIOS/OS, but sent it out over the network

Related:

JetKVM – Control any computer remotely - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986909 - Feb 2025 (1 comment)

JetKVM Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553822 - Dec 2024 (1 comment)

JetKVM – Next generation open-source KVM over IP for $69 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313894 - Dec 2024 (2 comments)

JetKVM: Tiny IP KVM That's Not an Apple Watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957056 - Oct 2024 (14 comments)

I know this might sound naive but for those of us who had to google

kvm here mean keyboard video and mouse, not the linux kernel-based virtual machine kvm

this device apparently is used to connect to machines remotely over IP

Have 2 of these for my homelab with the power management extension and they’ve been great, would recommend

Don't use these on your corporate devices or the infosec department will think you are a DPRK remote worker.

No out of the box TailScale but it's 'easy to add.'

WebRTC is neat. It looks like it relies on CloudFlare WebRTC relay for STUN / TURN, but supposedly you can self-host the cloud api. https://jetkvm.com/docs/networking/remote-access

I'd also point out the gl.inet Comet Pro, which has some nice to haves like wifi 6, full sized HDMI ports, HDMI and USB pass through. https://www.gl-inet.com/campaign/gl-rm10/

The PiKVM approach of having a whole computer you can also use makes so much sense to me. Interesting seeing similar parallels in NAS space, where Ugreen for example is running Debian on their NAS.

I picked up one from the kickstarter campaign. It's a wonderful, well-made device and open-source to boot. I plan to buy more.

If Sipeed had any idea how to run a product or software, the NanoKVM line would eat this alive.

Fortunately, Sipeed is like most other chinese manufacturers and have no idea what they're doing. Did they partner with Manjaro for that one? I don't think the Manjaro folks are even that incompetent.

Please forgive my ignorance, but what advantage does this have over RDP/VNC?

I might be missing something, but what does this do that an app like AnyDesk doesn't? Is there something inherently better about remoting in with dedicated hardware rather than using any of the free and widely available software solutions? I can see where this would make sense for low powered machines that can't easily encode video at high speeds / low latency, but I struggle to see the sense of this in a context where I actually want video output (a powerful workstation) rather than just SSH.

Provenance and trust are relevant for a remote KVM.

But I can't find any information on their Web site about who runs the JetKVM company, not even a partial name or handle of anyone, nor even what country they are in. Which seems odd for how much this product needs to be trusted.

Searching elsewhere, other than the company Web site... Crunchbase for JetKVM shows 2 people, who it says are based in Berlin, and who also share a principal company, BuildJet, which Crunchbase says is based in Estonia. The product reportedly ships from Shenzhen. BuildJet apparently is a YC company, but BuildJet's Web site has very similar lack of info identifying anyone or their location, again despite the high level of trust required for this product.

Are corporate customers who are putting these products into positions of serious trust -- into their CI, and remote access to inside their infrastructure -- doing any kind of vetting? When the official Web sites have zero information about who this is, are the customers getting the information some other way, before purchasing and deploying?

If these people are still running the companies, why aren't they or anyone else mentioned on the company Web sites? That would be helpful first step for trust for corporate use. So its absence is odd.