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Re:Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberr... by Scaevolus on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:16PM (#23934283)
Woops, forgot the major issue-- the Pi Zero only has one USB port (the other is just for power), so you couldn't get video frames in at the same time as you pretended to be a keyboard.
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Re:Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberr... by mtlynch on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:23PM (#23935035)
The Pi Zero's power port is actually a USB OTG port. I used it in my precursor project to forward keystrokes:

https://mtlynch.io/key-mime-pi/

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Re:Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberr... by magicalhippo on Friday July 24, 2020 @07:15PM (#23945450)
On the web page you explicitly say to connect it to the port labelled "USB", which is not the power port.
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Re:Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberr... by mtlynch on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:34PM (#23946167)
Whoops, you're right. I misremembered. It's power on the Pi 4 and data on the Pi Zero.

Thanks for the correction!

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