KVMD 3.73: Experimental dynamic USB configuration
First of all, although the release is experimental, it is NOT unstable. The new utility does not affect the performance of the system in any way if you do not use.
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New testing branch available
A few months ago, due to the release of Bullseye, the usual video encoding method used in PiKVM stopped working in the new kernel. OpenMAX and MMAL were deprecated and uStreamer has ben rewrited to use new M2M encoder. Now the work is almost completed and everything seems to be working fine.
KVMD 3.55: Copying text FROM the target machine
Introducing a new big feature—the ability to copy text from a managed machine to the clipboard.
Zero W 1 and RPi 1 end-of-life
Since Arch Linux ARM has discontinued support for the ARMv6 architecture , we are discontinuing support for PiKVM based on Zero W and RPi 1, because we don't have the ability to maintain our own fork of the whole distro for this architecture.
KVMD 3.53: OLED and fan updates for V3
The new KVMD update ships with a few major OLED changes.
KVMD 3.36: Custom command button in the menu
We have just implemented the long-awaited feature—adding a custom command button to the menu.
KVMD 3.33: New Wi-Fi configuration method
Starting from today, the old way to configure Wi-Fi using netctl is deprecated. Instead, it is proposed to use a more native way with systemd-networkd, which is already used to configure Ethernet.
KVMD 3.27: Mouse polling rate
The new version ships with a new feature: configurable mouse polling rate.
KVMD 3.26: Philips Hue GPIO plugin
This releases comes with several new features and improvements.
KVMD 3.23 + kernel fix: keyboard/mouse wakeup
Previously, when using v2+/OTG on Pi4 and ZeroW, you could not wake up the host if it was in suspend. Now this problem is solved.