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Scaevolus
on July 24, 2020
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Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a R...
Woops, forgot the major issue-- the Pi Zero only has
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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.
mtlynch
on July 24, 2020
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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/
magicalhippo
on July 24, 2020
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On the web page you explicitly say to connect it to the port labelled "USB", which is not the power port.
mtlynch
on July 25, 2020
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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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