I'm interested in the Comet Pro (GL-RM10) Remote KVM. I want to setup a "small form factor" PC in a relative's residence, and remotely connect to it from overseas.
Is it necessary that the PC back in my home country be connected to a monitor, or will it be enough that the output of the HDMI cable on the PC is connected to the KVM device?
I want to know if I can omit the monitor, the mouse, and the keyboard, for the same reason I'd be using a smaller PC to begin with; to save space. It'd be stored in a relative's residence, so I want to be as respectful of their limited space as possible.
Basically it is a monitor, mouse and keyboard in one package able to be used by gl kvm app or web browser.
and you can also connect a monitor on the pc, mouse and keyboard.
The only obstacle could be the extra monitor, but I understand this is not what you want?
Tl;dr for when extra monitor:
Most motherboards have a port priority, either from left side or right side, displayport always has a higher priority than hdmi.
So if remote work is important but your physical monitor at your home is on port 1 or using displayport then you do wise to turn off this monitor before attending outskirts of home.
Then the second priority takes over which then is your kvm, on a environment like windows it is possible it presents as dual monitor when not working remotely but behind the physical monitor then you can just disable the kvm monitor, windows will remember this each time you login into windows it will turn off the gl kvm monitor off, but if no monitor was present gl kvm gets on
What I would want is what I’ve just learned is referred to as a “headless” system, just a SFF PC, that doesn’t have a keyboard, or a mouse, or a monitor. It would just be a computer and a KVM device, sitting in a closet under the stairs.
Whenever I’m here in the US, I’m using my laptop. When outside of the US, I would be remotely connecting my laptop to the PC using the Comet Pro.
kvms often came from the datacenter industry, so that a engineer easily could manage multiple machines behind one mouse and keyboard and screen, in your case your laptop.
I am using a headless system with a Gli.net KVM as well. No monitor, no keyboard or mouse connected., just the KVM, power and Ethernet.
The system wakes up realible via WOL. As a second measure, I would recommend to enable the “Power On when AC connected” feature in BIOS/EFI and use a remote controllable power outlet, just for redundancy.
