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CLUSTER MONITOR-USB-INPUT · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-08-22

USB-based KVM utilities

This cluster consists of desktop utilities that turn cheap USB hardware into KVM switches, handling video and input (keyboard/mouse) over USB, including streaming displays to a NanoKVM web UI. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only 4 pre-index entries. Among the three members, nanokvm-sidecast leads on traction with 2 stars; the others have 0.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2022: 1DEC 2024: 1FEB 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2022OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 4 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01nanokvm-sidecast4★6 days—hobbyDesktop utility that streams a computer's displays to a NanoKVM device over USB so the screen appears in the KVM web interface.
  2. 02USBKVM0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop client for a USB KVM device that displays video and emulates keyboard and mouse input over USB.
  3. 03nanokvm-usb0★5 moliveopen sourceKVM device software that enables remote access to a computer without a monitor, keyboard, or mouse for maintenance.
  4. 04openterfaceQT0★2 molivehand-codedopen sourceControl application that manages a mini KVM device, letting users operate headless computers remotely via HDMI and USB.
  5. 05display-switch0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility that repurposes a cheap USB switch into a multi-monitor KVM switch for managing input and display.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.