They sent out a lot of review samples to different serious tech youtubers like wendal at level1 and jeff geerling. They all came back big fans.
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lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 weeks agoYeah, a bit suspicious.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
peregus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What do you mean by “suspicious”? What are your worries?
lnxtx@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Price, too good, too be true.
Similar device the PiKVM, starting at 139.09 USD e.g. PiKVM v3.3 HAT.
Plus cost of Raspberry PI 4.bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sipeed nanokvm is around 50$
skittlebrau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve got two JetKVM units on the way.
TinyPilot and PiKVM are just way too expensive in Australia. Buying two would cost me about $1000 AUD, but two JetKVMs are only $260 AUD.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Ouch I’ll just stick with the Nanos for now. Not in Australia but country probably has similar costs.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Around same price as nonokvm. Don’t know if I should replace mine with these.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Prices vary but there’s also BliKVM where the V3 version is essentially a clone of the PiKVM (and goes for around 90 USD) and they have their own Allwinner chipset version that I have seen even cheaper than that (although not currently). So not too out of the ordinary.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Price to performance and (software) support.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To the Kickstarter schedule, they’re shipping units right now.
The last time this was posted I brought up pricing and schedule as being suspicious.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Honestly I’ve always found the cost of KVM equipment to be super suspicious.
You need to be able to capture HDMI/VGA at very low resolution and refresh, become a USB HID host and provide this data via VNC. It’s not like we need an Elgato 8k stream coming off the hardware.
Last time I went IP KVM shopping for a small server room the prices started at around 10 grand.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There’s not much competition, so yeah prices are a bit artificially high. But how big of a server room are we talking? Because brand-name servers already have IPMI (idrac, ilo), and if you can get vPro on Intel boards then you have that built in too (but I’ve only met one or two people online who said they’ve deployed it, none IRL).