Re:Freetserv: a free serial terminal server
by Sanddancer on Friday December 25, 2015 @12:25AM
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There is a board that'll pull hdmi to the CSI port. It's abou 150 euros, but there have been success reports, up to 60 fps
http://www.auvidea.eu/index.php/theme-styles/2014-12-30-22-3...
Regarding emulating a USB device, first thing that comes to mind is possibly using a micro of some sort that can act as a usb device, like an arduino or teensy. it's a bit hackish, but sending things over SPI should get more than ample speed for keyboard/mouse emulation, and there's code written already for a lot of micro platforms to do both.
For HDMI/DVI capture at this scale, the best option seems to be an FPGA based system. There are several boards available that have the necessary hardware but are expensive (relative to a 1-port IP-KVM), power hungry, or large (or all of the above.) The Digilent Zybo may have enough to pull it off (and has the ARM cores to boot) but is still a bit on the pricey / power hungry side. I'm hoping the new Snickerdoodle Zynq based boards will be able to do the job (with an add-on board)
Regarding using the Pi2, it might work, especially if it can be fed via the camera interface. The lack of USB-OTG (linux gadget support for KB / Mouse / Mass Storage) limits the usefulness somewhat.
I've been hopeful about the Beaglebone Black / X15 due to the USB-OTG and the tons of extra IO.
The other board of interest is the Dragonboard 410C - it can supposedly capture at 1080p60 (more than enough for the average system you'll stick a KVM on) but I'm not sure what that means explicitly (yet.) It does have USB-OTG (though it can't do USB Host / Device simultaneously.)