here is your thumby award for best thumbnail on a youtube video 🏆

Glad to see you back, Jeff. Hope you're feeling much better. I've just developed an even greater appreciation of your IT knowledge and excellent communication skills. Somehow, you manage to break down the most complex technologies into plain language for average folks like myself. The previous video was regarding how to make a simple split rail PSU, but the delivery required an EE degree to comprehend. So, what's the point of instructing those folks, who already understand engineering lingo, how to SMD solder? As it happens, I actually need a noise-free +/-9VDC split supply for my galvos' op amp circuit. But, that video only wasted my time. On the other hand, I always learn stuff from your videos, even though the immediate need doesn't exist for me personally. But, the knowledge didn't just pass in one ear and out the other. Those tidbits of retained knowledge are potential tools for future successes. Thanks for all your great work, Jeff.👍

Technically this would be incorporating a full blown GPU into a Pi Rig, right?

That thumbnail is art. Like, you should sell framed prints of that as merch. I would buy it and hang it on my wall.

Alternate title: Computerception.

I've been hunting for an ASRock Paul card but they've been either really expensive (eBay) or never in-stock (Newegg). This looks like what I've been looking for my own home lab. Thank you Jeff! Hope you're feeling better than a month ago.

(Pedantry warning) Technically in a server this would be a BMC (baseboard management controller), IPMI is a protocol used to interact with BMCs. Dell calls it iDRAC, HP calls it iLO, SuperMicro calls it something Super I can't remember. Sysadmins still usually call BMC/LoM/and everything else associated with this stuff "IPMI" though because sysadmins are lazy (at least, this sysadmin is lazy). Awesome video as always, glad you're feeling better!

5:00 you should use an hdmi splitter for the main hdmi port so you get it on both the main screen and your kvm without having to go duplicate the screen

I love how you provide a bunch of varied content on this channel. Very interesting keep up the good work

Yo dawg I heard you liked computers so I computered your computer so you can computer while computering

4:02 When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to go war driving in the middle of the night; nothing malicious though. We would drive to the parking lot of a big apartment complex and start a 10 minute timer. Each if us had a "Call sign" for the night. They were usually WD1,WD2,WD3 and WD4. The goal was to see who could log into the most wifi routers, and change the router ID to their call sign. Once the 10 minute timer was up, we would use a NET STUMBLER tool to log all of the near by WiFi routers as we drove away. Then when we, "got back to home base", we would see the most "WD" 's. Looking back, the funny part was just how paranoid we were about every car or person we would see. Every car head lights we saw someone would shoot, "COPS!".

I've used addon IP KVM devices before but the ATX connectors really takes this to the next level, bravo!

This is what UKposts should be about: excellently presented new information I haven't heard about and without you probably never would have. Thank you!

The thumbnail for this video is god-tier. Looks like you're starting to feel better. Stay healthy and stay techy!

Glad to see you making videos again... I remember fitting a 386 for extra storage in my old full size 486 case using a laplink cable. Good to see things have moved on from those days :)

Great video Jeff! Good to see you looking a lot better!

I had another UKpostsr put a NAS inside of a NAS. It was pretty neat. Maybe I'll have Jeff put a NAS inside of a NAS that's inside of another NAS.

hi Jeff, glad that you are well and back online. Stay healthy🖖🏻

I just discovered this channel and already found my binge-watching home for the weekend 🙂

Thanks for covering this. I've heard of them, but I never saw them in action. This really helps me to understand where they fit into an usage case, such as in cloud / server situations.

I got the Pi KVM 3.0 Hat for the Pi 4 back in Feb 2022. It is working great on my home server. I like this format for the Pi-KVM since it consolidates some of the cabling on the inside of the PC and the useful POE power. The only caveat is the shortage on Pi4's and the markups. I bit the bullet and bought the package with the marked up Pi4 compute. That was still cheaper than the Pi KVM 3.0 Hat setup.

nice... I did look into these a couple of years back to go into my gaming pc and do remote gaming (when I had to move it away from the desk as it took up too much room for it + monitors + work laptop)... not for use of streaming the game, but turning the pc on, login and fixing issues with steam remote play

Hope you are feeling better. Keep up the good work.

This is an excellent form factor for the PiKVM, but I think it can go one step further. Instead of assuming that there's a GPU available, it could use the PCIe bus to run a super basic GPU (like SVGA basic) and feed the output of that directly to the RPi.

This card has been amazing for my makerspace rack-mounted server. Dell IDRAC is an insecure punishment in comparison. That said, there's a severe issue me and others have run into. The SD card slot touches some capacitors on the bottom of the CM4, and can short it out. Current solution is a piece of tape on top of the slot. It's an easily fixable issue that may only be a problem for some, but you should know about it.

So nice to see you good and well and posting again Jeff! 😊

First video from you I've ever seen, instantly subscribed. I'm a beginner at networking. I LOVE all the terms and how you explain them.

What a piece of work!Although I'd like PoE, I do have an 'always live' USB on the back of my VBox host server, and it would be easy to use for this. I've never been able to use Wake On Lan and this would help. Internal card is awesome. Not much different than setting up the 'high end' options like iLO. Thank you for finding the 'outside (or next to) the box' solutions...

It might be a good idea to use a HDMI splitter to split the signal transparently, with EDID setting set to clone display 1 (which would be the actual physical display). But then it's kinda doubtful whether that would work well for capturing the BIOS setting menu.

Dang the Pi KVM is pretty sweet! Thank you for this video Jeff. Also I hope you're still getting better.

Good to see you Jeff! Glad you are reasonably well

This is actually awesome, makes it even easier to make old PCs into servers

11:28 Please be aware that this is great to add to a machine, but if you're building a machine Asrock Rack offers regular desktop motherboards with IPMI, i have an AMD X470 with IPMI and i was extremely surprized it came with an integrated GPU, i was expecting to need to use one of the AMD APUs which are lacking in performance compared to a CPU, but with a BIOS update i was able to stuff a 3950x into this compact mATX board without needing a dedicated video card(this is good, because i needed that PCIe slot for a 16 drive SAS HBA)

Your channel is really amazing, many of the products you introduce are really close with what I have imagined! Because I am a hardware fan who builds data centers for software development at home :D

Glad you are doing well and making videos again!

This is really interesting though i thought more functionality would be possible, like pcie for startup, cant pcie nics do that? also wouldnt it be possible to power it internally if you have one of those usb headers that you cant use for charging even if the pc is off?

This solves so many issues for my home lab. I’m running consumer hw because of the power efficiency and the only boards with IPMI are almost impossible to find (AsRack)

Meme thumbnails, the best thumbnails

5/5 stars for the thumbnail

I can't find a cm4 to save my life!

"Sorry, this item is no longer available!" :( was actually thinking about getting something like this as I recently moved my lab over to cast-off optiplex machines as my old RX10-series servers are too loud and power hungry.

going into this i wasn't sure what it'd even be used for, but watching thru this actually seems incredibly convenient, seriously cool lil piece of kit

so good to see you better Jeff, glad you're back

I remember trying to build a simple remote power switch with a pi and the only Forum entrance I found was answered with "This is stupid why would you like to do such a thing." I even bought a small opto coupler but this forum answer made me loose all interest FAST so i didn't do it.

This might not be a good tool for game streaming (Valve kind of has that covered with the Steam Deck and the old Steam Link. nVidia has a solution as well.) BUT, this could come in handy if you're using an old junk PC to run a game server, like Minecraft. Likewise, I could see this being used for a NAS in a home environment, where you might not want the NAS up all the time.

Excellent! I've been waiting for you to review this ever since you and your dad reviewed the original, non-PCIe BliKVM.

Absolutely amazing videos and channel man! keep it up 💪🏽

This is awesome. Definitely going to check it out.

4:50 if you right click on the desktop and open display settings, you can duplicate your primary monitor to the PiKVM this is more useful than just hitting win+P and changing everything to mirror as this method only dpulicates the chosen monitors, allowing all other monitors to remain extended.

Uhm, actually, with Wake-on-PCIe enabled in the BIOS, you can wake the PC with a PCIe card. It would just require implementing a PCIe card, which is much more complex than what they did. Also: great to see YOU up and running again! :)

The thumbnail is pure work of art 👌

Great work Jeff, as always!

Take a shot every time he says computer.

Isn't a cm4 way overkill for something like that?

Thanks so much for your thoughtful and detailed videos! On to the soft!

Glad to see you are feeling better Jeff.

OMG, I missed you sooo much! Hope you're feeling better now! Greetings from Lithuania!

Thanks for showing this pretty nice all-in-one piKVM solution! It seems pretty well thought through and the price seems fair for what you get. Really appreciate POE, that's shouldn't be taken for granted at that price. I do like how modular this whole piKVM project is though. If you just want to tinker around a bit at home or want to use it for setting up computers headlessly from time to time, then you can cheap out a lot. The lowest entry point seems to be the Pi Zero W with a HDMI USB or (better) CSI Adapter, but you will have to keep in mind, the Pi Zero has way less power. Usually getting 5 to 8 fps is a step back from the CM4s performance but is absolutely enough for administrative usage.

This may be the most badass thing ever

I DID comment how amazing this was but a little prematurely. After watching how you still have to connect the headers to the box to power it up, etc, etc. But still a good form factor for the pi-kvm. Thanks for the vid!

Yo Dawg!! I actually laughed out loud at that one!! Thanks for your passion that shows in your videos, and I hope you are feeling well.

Dude!!! You're off the chain today! LOL Hope You are feeling better! Cheers! Judson & Buddy!!

Great content. I especially loved the humorous clip. good stuff

this looks so helpful for homelabs

Oh, you're feeling good enough to move more again? Super cool! Hope you continue to feel better :)

I live in a very space-constrained apartment. Figuring out where to mount what is very much a challenge; basically "the Tetris lifestyle". I have been wanting to put a RasPi INTO my PC case since I have all those open, unused slots there, which would be perfect to put something like this into! Thank you for showing this off! Now here is hope that we will see ITX boards that can fit into regular PC or SFF cases to reuse some older shelved parts. :)

All your videos are very healthy . Keep it up !

That thumbnail alone is worth my like on this video, thanks for the smile Jeff!

Always great jeff 🙏

Well done lad, well done.

Heh, the first thing that came to mind when you said you were going to put a computer into your computer was the hilarious juxtaposition of a CM4 module mounted to a McCake WaveBlaster Board mounted to an ISA SoundBlaster 16 circa 1994 inside a 486 DOS retro computer. The CM4 in that case emulates a Roland MT-32 music synth and uses sound fonts for General MIDI music in DOS/Win95/Win98 games. This is really neat and I'm definitely tempted to pick one up for the homelab. Cheers!

I was just trying to figure out how to do this a few weeks ago! Awesome video!

Thank you for explaining in simple layman's terms ...... very interesting video .

This is pretty neat. Good find!!!

It's good to see you (presenting) healthy and well again! ❤️‍🩹

You just earned my subscription and like. Damn I'm learning in this video!

Appreciate your ever present professionalism, Mr. Geerling. Here on YT it is a rarity, because of everyone's devotion to showbiz and click count. Regards, and be well always Anthony (from the UK)...

Glad to see you up and about Jeff! Pity that this little gem seems to be sold out on AliExpress by now.. I guess that’s the power of UKposts ;).

Very interesting product. I've been using original pikvm enclosure since one year and appreciate all pikvm functions. But this device brings IPMI access to another level.

Very informative! And funny to see Jeff Sr. looks like you, but older

I liked the video as soon as I clicked on your thumbnail! It's sooo good hahahaha

Finally someone did it. I thought about this as soon as the cm4 came out.

This certainly looks fun to use!

Wow, I'm about to build a system whereby two PC's which are going to be housed in an pretty inaccessible space in a RV. This is exactly what I need from remote power management. Jeff you rock GB.

OMG I was searching for something like this. Thanks

Finally I've been waiting for this

Don't worry, Hood Jeff can't hurt you, he's not real. Hood Jeff: I'm glad you are doing better with Crohn's. I dont have it, but I got a huge surgery to improve my hearing a year ago and it knocked me right out of my usual life for over a week, heck, even breathing hurt my throat due to the surgery being done through it somehow. It was during school season, and since I was having virtual lessons over Zoom, I decided attending them was a better idea than getting a week's worth of homework thrown right at me right after recovery was done. It was kind of helpful to make me forget about the pain. Keep it up, Jeff! Doing stuff keeps other stuff away. Sounds weird, but surprisingly true.

This is amazing; although the gaming doesn't work well, it is still a big step. Thanks for sharing, Jeff; I like all your content.

Another fantastic video

This is pretty neat. Wonder if I could get my boss onboard with even a few of these.

subbed for the thumbnail, brilliant

I ordered 5, BlikVM is the best KVM over IP on the market

You won me over with "yo dawg", the chain is priceless

Thanks for your sharing

Best thumbnail!

Homeservers with consumer hardware just got a new boost and favourite piece of hardware :) Amazing!

This is amazing.

ILO4 and iMana from Huawei respectively HPE are pretty awesome things! It's awesome to install OS over network and mount ISO files

This is ideal for a full KVM where you need to proper access to a system from power down to the desktop. I need to look at something like this for when I'm out of country but need to access my system.

Thanks, Jeff. Snagged a couple of them and also snagged some extra CM4's on Digikey.