I bought my first GL-RM1 Comet and there is nowhere to plug in the monitor. All it has a single HDMI port that goes to the PC. (PC also has only 1 HDMI Port) I’ve been using KVM switches for 40 years and never seen one without a monitor port. I tried to use an HDMI splitter, that that works about half the time but is very buggy and the KVM goes offline frequently. Am I missing something? Does this assume there are 2 HDMI ports on the PC?
Since it's a remote console, you need to control the KVM using the apps or your browser. It's not a KVM switch. See Quick Setup Guide - GL.iNet KVM Docs
The RM1 (OG Comet) essentially behaves like a monitor. I've used an HDMI splitter to send the signal to both the RM1 and an external monitor. The RM10 (Comet Pro) has HDMI passthrough, so I can plug the monitor into the RM10 instead of using the splitter.
Could you elaborate on it being very unstable and frequently disconnecting?Please also provide the debug log.
That’s what I am doing now but the video signal eventually fails on either the monitor or the KVM, and then it goes offline. I have not ruled out that my particular splitter might not be up to the task. Which one are you using? I’m certainly willing to try a different one. I want to make this work.
To be more accurate, the instability is in splitting the HDMI signal, not so much the device. It tends to drop one of the devices, either the monitor, in which case I can’t view the screen anymore, or it drops the device, which makes the KVM go offline. If I unplug and plug each of them one at a time and plug them back in it work for a while and then eventually will fail again.
This why I want to know what the intended solution for this was because there is no monitor port on the KVM, and nothing in any of the documentation on how to resolve this.
I had some issues with this one that were similar to what you described (it would sometimes take a while to sync, or I'd need to reboot the Comet).
This one worked a bit better:
It sounds like there might be an issue with your HDMI splitter.
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