PiKVM via Camera Connector

[Jonny_mi0mtu]

Hi Folks,

I've been getting back into ATV and Satellite work after some time

I have successfully installed the Portsdown 4 system. I unfortunately do not have a touchscreen. However, I do have a PiKVM (https://pikvm.org/) which is a device that uses the camera connector on the Pi to let you use your Pi as a remote KVM server with an HDMI input.

I thought, well since it uses the camera connector, would it work with Portsdown pretending to be a PiCam? And low and behold...it works - nearly!

I'll send through a picture in due course (not at my equipment at present) but basically the picture on tx is the right 50% of the screen (I was sending in a 16:9 source).

Does anybody have any ideas how I could maybe tweak some picam settings under the hood of portsdown? It must be able to work correct somehow, the folks at PiKVM do it.

Thanks

Jonny MI0MTU

[g8lce]

Hi Jonny,

You can control the Portsdown via a browser and just use a HDMI monitor.
viewtopic.php?f=103&t=8376
Just incase it helps while you sort your system out.

Martin G8LCE

[G8GKQ]

Hi Jonny

Very Interesting! What video encoding are you using for transmit? I ask because the Portsdown works totally differently for MPEG-2 and H264.

There are a number of settings that might help you make this work before you dive into the code. As Martin says, these are best accessed from a web view of the touchscreen rather than the ssh console menu. Note that you will not normally get images on the web view, only buttons.

Dave, G8GKQ