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No video capture working, unable to update TinyPilot When updating from the UI. Clicking settings>update does tell me an update is available, clicking the green Update button returns this error in a red box: Failed to start update Error: 500 Internal Server Error Internal Server Error The server encoun... | Technical Support | T T | 3 | 2021-12-02 02:07:38.409Z |
Newbie Problems / Questions Hey all new user here. I have two issues: I can't get to https://tinypilot but I can get to https://tinypilot.local however on latest Chrome it will NOT let me pass the mismatch cert problem while Safari will let me get by. Not the end of the world j... | General | H | 14 | 2021-12-01 23:06:41.830Z |
Keyboard Typing using SSH Hi, I am trying to automate my initial boot process for several MacMinis and wondering if I can type using just SSH. This would be used for the initial password entry with a return. That possible? | General | C | 1 | 2021-11-29 23:10:41.684Z |
keyboard and Mouse not working with Macbook pro USB-c I purchased tinypilot Voyager, I can see the screen using KVM but Keyboard and mouse not working Thanks Gurjinder Singh | General | GCA | 8 | 2021-11-29 23:07:48.238Z |
November 23, 2021 update is a winner! Came online to post an issue, saw mention of release 2.3.1 (November 23, 2021 update) and performed the upgrade. I am seeing much improved video and mouse performance! Great update everyone. Thank you. | General | F | 1 | 2021-11-23 21:45:22.543Z |
Waking sleeping machine using keyboard or mouse, but without using WoL Can anyone say if TinyPilot is able to wake up a remote machine if WakeOnLan is not available? I can wake the remote machine by moving or pressing a button on a logitech keyboard or mouse. | General | T | 1 | 2021-11-22 20:19:31.649Z |
at bios, unresponsive just got my tinypilot v2.3.1 [pro] played around with it and was intrigued with the virtual drive option. very handy. so i mounted a few ISOs and installed an ubuntu LTS. worked very good. now i wanted to update my bios. pc is a intel-nuc-kit-nuc6i7k... | Technical Support | Y | 2 | 2021-11-22 15:41:57.122Z |
TinyPilot Voyager with PoE splitter Dear Sirs I'm going to install a TinyPilot Voyager and power it via a PoE splitter. Can I discard the Power Connector altogether and use a front USB port for keyboard and mouse traffic? Thanks and Regards Mauricio | General | MM | 3 | 2021-11-20 10:52:15.274Z |
VGA-to-HDMI adapter power & splitting signal What are the best methods for powering the VGA-to-HDMI adapter with the USB cable? Powered from Tiny Pilot? Powered from target? Powered from external power? For us, from target is easiest, but we had one adapter that was failing at the Ubuntu instal... | General | J | 1 | 2021-11-19 15:48:55.988Z |
virtual media upload failing Is there a way to sftp the virtual images to the tinypilot? they keep failing to upload when i try to upload from my laptop via the web interface | General | B | 1 | 2021-11-18 19:30:29.361Z |
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Update fail Hi. I'm new to the Pi. I thought I knew what I was doing and SSH'd to the tinypilot. I ran the apt update to update everything, rebooted, and now the Tinypilot doesn't respond to the tinypilot URL. I have a solid green and red light. I took out the S... | General | S | 3 | 2021-11-11 22:23:40.412Z |
Reverse Proxy Settings? Hi Michael, I'm in awe of what you've built here. Reading your development journey and then building products and a company around what is an amazing solution is really inspiring! I hope it all goes well for you! Also thank you for keeping a free ver... | Technical Support | JJ | 7 | 2021-11-10 20:33:12.961Z |
Just bought a TinyPilot and the keyboard doesn't work at Bios with an Asus P6X58D-E motherboard @Michael... We just bought a brand new TinyPilot at our studio for me to be able to do remote booting tests, change bios parameters, etc. Our studio is located in Madrid - Spain, and I'm in Vancouver - Canada, so I need a kvm over ip solution. After ... | General | RR | 4 | 2021-11-05 02:00:25.598Z |
TinyPilot network doesn't seem to want to initialize Just got my TinyPilot and connected it up to a server to try to test it out, but the network on the TinyPilot never seems to get going. I tested the port with a laptop and was able to get DHCP and everything just fine. When I plug the network back in... | General | D | 11 | 2021-11-04 19:53:31.818Z |
NumLock and ten key numbers issue With NumLock off on my keyboard, when I push the "left arrow/ 4" key on the right half of the keyboard, in the lower right of the browser it says "ArrowLeft", but on the remote PC it types a 4. If I turn "NumLock on" on my keyboard and push the "left... | General | C | 1 | 2021-11-03 22:19:36.979Z |
Mouse movements not detected, but clicks works Hello, I have installed my tinypilot today, which works fine for video capture, keyboard input and mouse clicks. But it doesn’t work with mouse movements : I don’t see the cursor moving, either on the web page or on the remote PC. With the help of th... | Technical Support | K | 3 | 2021-11-02 21:29:39.038Z |
No Signal since update to 2.5.5 I have set my unit up with a KVM physical switch like the youtube video by DB Tech. It was working as expected. I just did the update to 2.5.5 and now I'm getting no signal from either video source (input 1 or 2 on the KVM) I have physically cold boo... | Technical Support | GG | 14 | 2021-11-01 19:42:14.809Z |
TinyPilot Voyager, VGA Adapter and snow/no-signal Hi Folks, Just received my TinyPilot Voyager and have been trying to set it up using the VGA adapter which I purchased with it. I'm having problem getting video signal to come in, the only clean view I've seen is the Windows loading screen. Thought I... | General | P | 7 | 2021-10-20 22:34:33.204Z |
Firewall ? Does it have one and if so - what Hello, Does TinyPilot come with an active firewall. I want to setup access from the Internet via a port forward but need to make sure it's not getting blocked internally. What sayeth the group? Jay / CompuMatter | Technical Support |  | 2 | 2021-10-20 20:25:43.220Z |
Storage is full Is there reason why the storage would keep getting full? This is the second time the space is full on this device. Last time it happened, I had to reinstall the tinypilot in order for it to work. | General | N | 3 | 2021-10-19 15:51:26.648Z |
Windows.iso boot problem Hello, Is there any way how to boot Windows.iso? Linux works, but Windows doesn't. Mount mode is flash drive. CD-ROM mode not working either. | General | K | 1 | 2021-10-15 21:09:01.066Z |
Connector Types Used on the TinyPilot Power Connector? I’m planning on buying and using the TinyPilot Power Connector with an Apple 20W USB-C Power Adapter (which supports 5V ⎓ 3A output as required by the Raspberry Pi 4B). Looking at the product page for the TinyPilot Power Connector, it seems to have: ... | Technical Support | T | 1 | 2021-10-12 22:04:42.898Z |
The target computer does not have a usb port The target computer does not have a usb port , There is no way to use Tinypilot Is there any solution? | General | JD | 4 | 2021-10-12 21:04:29.755Z |
Mouse movement? Simultaneous keys? Can mouse / cursor position input be mirrored to the target computer through the Tinypilot? Also can simultaneous key combos e.g. shift + something be sent easily? Also wondering what the device & drivers are displayed as on the target computer. I ha... | General | RBD | 3 | 2021-10-12 15:34:27.440Z |
TinyPilot to control an Hikvision NVR Hello, I am considering buying TinyPilot to control an NVR that will be too difficult to reach for a lazy guy like me, and the pros of potentially being able to control it from any browser around the house (and beyond) makes me drool. TinyPilot is go... | General | LD | 2 | 2021-10-12 14:55:55.341Z |
High latency Hi, new TinyPilot user here. I am seeing a rather high latency (5 - 30+ seconds between pressing key and it registering on screen) even when average latency is 10ms with 0% packet loss. I am connected through a gigabit ethernet switch. I see a lot of... | Technical Support | R | 3 | 2021-10-07 20:29:12.907Z |
Hobbyist: no signal after aborted TC358743 experiment After setting up the hobbyist kit version of your device, I learned that TC358743 based capture cards reduce the blur of usb based ones. I thought I might order a compatible card and saw the instructions on enabling support. I though I might as well ... | Technical Support | S | 2 | 2021-10-04 19:44:33.827Z |
Do I need a Voyager for each server I want to control? The product looks good, but I'm not clear how it should be installed. Can I use one Voyager to control many servers, or do I need one voyager on each server I wish to control, and use a browser to access each server? | General | F | 1 | 2021-09-27 20:06:18.072Z |
ATX reset for Surface Pro? Hi - KVM novice here. Watched Jeff Geerling's video on TinyPilot, and wondering if a remote hard-reset would be possible for a Surface Pro tablet (either stand-alone, or with a docking station setup). Thanks! | General | DD | 2 | 2021-09-22 23:02:57.809Z |
Virtual Media not working #1 issue Size Cap? I read there is a TinyPilot Virtual Media size cap Each .ISO (or .IMG) can be no larger than 2.1 GB. Is there a cap? If yes, what is it? #2 Media mounted in running OS does not work HirenBootCD and any other disk I try simply does ... | Technical Support | D | 1 | 2021-09-22 22:23:06.118Z |
BIOS not viewable I have TP Pro. I have tried unit on 2 laptops and a desktop. Cannot see BIOS (during reboot). Post BIOS, I can seen normal Windows bootup. | Technical Support | D | 1 | 2021-09-22 22:18:13.418Z |
Fix for TinyPilot update failure In case this helps others. I tried to update TinyPilot software via Web UI and it failed. I logged in via SSH and ran /opt/tinypilot/scripts/upgrade. Output said file not valid yet and updates for this repository will not be applied. Google said to c... | General | C | 1 | 2021-09-22 19:39:09.588Z |
TinyPilot Pro 2.3.0 released This week, we published the September 2021 release of TinyPilot Pro. It adds several features including: Wake on LAN Streaming update logs Keyboard shortcuts for Ctrl + Alt + Del CD-ROM mode for virtual media For full details, see the announcement bl... | General | | 0 | 2021-09-22 19:11:09.526Z |
Way to split Keyboard and Mouse to 2 USB ports to connect to KVM My KVM Switch usb ports only has separate ports for Keyboard and Mouse. Is there anyway to split or repeat the USB from the Pi so I can plug into Keyboard and Mouse? Just to note my Pi works in either Keyboard or Mouse plug it only controls either th... | General | K | 1 | 2021-09-10 21:30:53.344Z |
Reduce CSI to HDMI resolution to 800x600 How to reduce resolution to 800x600? I am using Tinypilot pro version. If possible pls share how to do that in Tinypilot community version also. Thanks | Technical Support | P | 1 | 2021-09-09 18:20:58.096Z |
remote-screen-img size I've managed to increase the ustreamer capture resolution to 4096x2160 using another usb capture card and editing ustreamer.service, but the image size on the webpage is still displaying at 1920x1080. Is it possible to increase the image size on the ... | Technical Support | P | 5 | 2021-09-07 18:55:38.339Z |
TinyPilot using remote desktop and ipad with magic keyboard Hi, I am using this awesome tool and I am loving it. when I want to access tiny pilot from outside my home network and I use my iPad browser (chrome, firefox or Safari) I experiance unbearable slowness, so I decided to connect to a virtual machine in... | General | ?? | 6 | 2021-09-03 21:58:58.797Z |
Tinypilot Pro update fails Tried to update using web gui and via SSH error via SSH: E: Repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repo... | General | KK2F | 27 | 2021-09-03 21:47:43.316Z |
Mouse HID gets interpreted as touch on Chromebook I'm controlling a Chromebook remotely from a Windows 10 computer through Chrome (holy inception, Batman!). The Chromebook seems to interpret the TinyPilot HID device (/dev/hidg1) as touch input. When I wave my mouse around on the Windows 10 computer,... | Technical Support | VV | 5 | 2021-09-02 08:00:22.148Z |
Higher resolution The TinyPilot Voyager looks really tempting, but I would like a higher resolution, maybe even DisplayPort input instead of HDMI. Is there any chance of you doing something like that? | General | UW | 2 | 2021-09-01 19:23:17.637Z |