The AURGA Viewer Wireless KVM

As much as I love virtualizing machines in my homelab and putting the hardware as far away from my desk as possible, the truth of the matter is that there always comes a time when you need “physical” access to the host to deal with boot issues, change BIOS configurations and other types of housekeeping–and regular remote access just won’t cut it in those times.

In the server world you have IPMI and all sorts of network-based remote solutions for hardware management (often with dedicated Ethernet ports on the motherboard or management cards), but for home and small-office use you’re essentially out of luck, sometimes to the point where you’ll find yourself having to drive off into nowhere just for the sake of hitting F1 on a BIOS and changing a couple of settings.

But even with renewed interest in all sorts of remote access solutions over the past few years, consumer hardware just doesn’t include any of those features, and third-party solutions were still prohibitively expensive–it took a while until the PiKVM made remote management minimally affordable to homelab enthusiasts, and it looks like we’re finally getting some competition in the space.

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