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Currently, I have SSH, VNC, and Cockpit setup on my home NAS, but I have run into situations where I lose remote access because I did something stupid to the network connection or some update broke the boot process, causing it to get stuck in the BIOS or bootloader.

I am looking for a separate device that will allow me to not only access the NAS as if I had another keyboard, mouse, and monitor present, but also let's me power cycle in the case of extreme situations (hard freeze, etc.). Some googling has turned up the term KVM-over-IP, but I was wondering if any of you guys have any trustworthy recommendations.

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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s probably not he solution you’re looking for, but I tend to put Proxmox on all of my hardware with TailScale installed on all my hosts, VMs and LXCs. So far I’ve only once had an issue where I couldn’t get into something. I borked the fstab on one of my Proxmox hosts.

More in line with what you may be looking for, there is a project called PiKVM. It probably won’t help if you’ve borked your whole network, but it might be of some use. It is what it says on the tin. It’s a KVM based around a Raspberry Pi.

[–] philpo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Proxmox is amazingly stable,yeah. I basically proxmox and meshcentral for everything by now.