Control your home lab server from anywhere! - Tiny Pilot Voyager 2a Review

Ever need out-of-band management for your home server in the home lab environment? How can you enter the BIOS and change settings remotely? Can you even reload your operating system remotely if needed and stay connected to your server or workstation? Michael Lynch of Tiny Pilot sent me a test unit of the Tiny Pilot Voyager 2a to review. I have had it running in the home lab a few weeks now and this video covers my thoughts on the unit. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com If you need to control your home server in your home lab from the console, I take a look at the Tiny Pilot Voyager 2a and the Tiny Pilot Pro operating system. _____________________________________________________ Discord: https://discord.gg/Zb46NV6mB3 Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/VirtualizationHowto/100092747277326/ 0:00 - Introduction 0:37 - Catching up on things going on 1:17 - The need for a KVM device 1:45 - Discussing the Overview of the Tiny Pilot Voyager 2a 2:15 - Detailed features listed 3:00 - My point of view in describing the unit 3:24 - Discussing the price of the Tiny Pilot Voyager 2a 3:55 - Describing the value of the unit 4:43 - I think it is worth the cost for the value 5:10 - Single device control 5:40 - Compatible companion HDMI switches to allow controlling multiple devices 6:25 - Looking at the Tiny Pilot Voyager 2a up close 7:28 - Looking at the cabling used with the Tiny Pilot 7:40 - HDMI to VGA adapter 9:02 - Overview of looking at the software side and interface 9:19 - Connection to a Supermicro server 9:33 - No plugins popping up or prompts to install plugins 10:24 - Looking at the System menu 10:46 - Looking at the Video settings 11:09 - Update option to update your software from the interface 11:30 - Security settings allow configuring web access, SSH, and TLS 11:52 - Virtual Media configuration and looking at booting from virtual media 12:30 - Add disk image from computer or URL 13:25 - Actions menu including Wake on LAN 13:43 - View settings including to show or remove keyboard 13:54 - Help menu 14:22 - Possible use cases and who would it it? 14:41 - Wrapping up and thoughts on the Tiny Pilot Voyager 2a Read my written write up of this review here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/06/tinypilot-raspberry-pi-kvm-over-ip-solution/