[ale] System Management Card

[Jim Lynch]

I've been thinking along the lines of ...

Connect a Rpi USB port to a an RS232 converter to a null modem to a 
serial port on my system (yep, it's got one).  Configure the system 
(kernel) to use the serial port as a console.  Open a port to the Rpi on 
the router and ssh into the Rpi and run a terminal program to connect to 
the serial port of the main machine.  Then connect a circuit containing 
a 115V solid state switch (normally on) to a pin on the Rpi so you can 
bounce the power remotely when all else fails.

Not exactly what you want, but you might be able to adapt it somehow.

Jim.

On 08/07/2015 04:53 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is such a thing as a iLo or Drac for home systems?
>
> Or cheap remote kvm?
>
> One my systems locked up and I am locked out. So I like to have the
> means next time to access,