MEET Comet

There's a bunch of nice new products visible on the website of GL-inet.

One that I believe it somewhat special is: Comet (GL-RM1)[ Beta testing program ]

This is not a router, but a remote KVM. You connect it using HDMI and USB to a PC/laptop/server. This device then simulates being a monitor, keyboard and mouse allowing you to remotely control that device as if you are connected to it directly. It looks like a monitor/keyboard/mouse for device it is connected to.

But what about Teamviewer and such? Well, teamviewer requires you to have the PC running and Teamviewer working on it. So using Teamviewer you cannot install an OS or access the BIOS/UEFI. A remote KVM can do that!

I do not know what system it is running on this device. PiKVM is a pretty known one in this field, but I know there are more options.

I do not know if it can do network pass-through and/or USB-storage emulation/ISO loading.
I can see it will not allow you to pass through the HDMI-signal, because there is only a single HDMI-port.
I do not see any options to connect any I/O (power button/reset button/status leds) of the PC into the device, so I doubt such an option would be available!

I do not know if it can connect to some VPN services to allow you to reach this device when it is in restricted networks.

Interesting to see such a device.

PS. I posted this in a category for Routers as I do not see any better place. Feel free to place this where it actually belongs in case it is incorrect.

In addition to installing the OS and entering the BIOS, there are many things that software like teamviewer cannot do.
Such as

  • You can't remotely control an offline computer.
  • Many devices will prohibit software installation, and we need to push the limits.
  • Or, you can never avoid some missteps in the remote control process, such as accidentally shutting down the remote software, which I had a few bad experiences with.

The system allows buildroot to build linux systems, rest assured that we will choose open source.

We reserve USB expansion, it will be richer than the expansion of IO and keep beautiful, as for boot, we will give the user 3 options, WOL, mechanical button, ATX control board

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We will have a permanent free VPN remote service built in.

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Interesting device, though i already funded a crowdfunding which also had a great looking kvm.

I wonder what makes them different , i wish both best luck :+1:

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Curious thing. If the remote KVM works always on, It could be useful to me.

Can't wait to try (and/or buy) this.

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I have a PiKVM v3 in use for quite a while, so I know what it does!

Oh and some other things I know some units have:
A little screen to show the IP the unit has currently. That's pretty useful info.
And would it somehow do PS2? I know PS2 is old, but yea in some cases it is needed.

My work often involves the network. Previously, I had been using anydesk, but it always caused my remote work to be interrupted when debugging the network. So I originally made this product just for my own work. It has been serving me remotely for a long time now and is very stable.
RM1 has a 4-core 1.5GHz CPU and an NPU with 2.0T computing power. In addition to remote working, I also plan to use it for AI applications.

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It can support any device that requires video (including audio) or keyboard and mouse control. Game consoles and TVbox are typical devices.

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I was not talking about the game console. I did mean PS/2!

A converter may be needed, and I can't find a computer that requires a PS/2 interface, so there's no way to try it.

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Any approx word on pricing?

Do you have a budget? We are still calculating the final price

I suppose somewhere between ~70€ (JetKVM?) and 250€

Haha, this range is a bit wide :joy:

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Hoping to be included in the beta. Im tired of using Anydesk lol. If not, hopefully the device will be flawless.

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If it's a similar price to gl.inet routers then worthy of consideration

If it's same as JetKVM then I'd be all over it - that puts in the buy some for the family to remote troubleshoot range

About 6 more hours.

Ordered twoat launch. I'm used to RDP'ing but have a device running Windows 11 Home which do not have remote desktop function.

Does it support 2 monitors @ 1080p while remote log in?

Hi,
I pre-ordered Comet. The spec has "audio" support. Can you expand on what that means?

  1. Any audio that would be going to HDMI would be send out to the client?
  2. Or full audio support such that two way audio (input/output) can support from Comet to the connected computer.

Can't wait to receive the device. Thanks in advance.