ESP-KVM
Reach a PC from the BIOS up, from your browser
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Details
- External ID
- 1266650
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ESP-KVM
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- GitHub, Computers
- Fetched at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
ESP-KVM turns an ESP32-P4 board and an HDMI capture board into an IP-KVM: the screen, keyboard and mouse of another computer in your browser, from the BIOS up. Boot it from an ISO, keep a dashcam that saves the minutes before a crash, reach it from anywhere over Tailscale or WireGuard. It is one firmware image with no OS: nothing to maintain, safe to power off, and a failed update rolls itself back. Flash it from the browser, no toolchain.
Enrichment
- Niche
- cross-device and desktop control utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based kvm for remote pc management
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is embedded systems firmware interacting directly with hardware peripherals (HDMI video capture, USB HID gadget emulation, ESP32-P4 low-level video encoding, and embedded networking). It requires specialized low-level C/C++ development, hardware design, and real-time streaming constraints that cannot be vibe-coded.
What it would actually take: A real build requires writing low-level ESP-IDF C/C++ firmware interfacing with an HDMI receiver chip (e.g., via MIPI-CSI or DVP) and hardware H.264/JPEG encoders on the ESP32-P4. The firmware must implement USB composite device stacks (HID keyboard/mouse, Mass Storage for ISO mounting) alongside WebRTC/WebSocket streaming and Tailscale/WireGuard integration within tight micro-controller memory limits. This demands specialized embedded systems, hardware engineering, and low-latency video streaming expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 71 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 72 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- ESP32-PC-Control-Deck · github · 2026-09-12 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one · hn · 2025-12-17 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- esp32-fpv-receiver · github · 2026-10-03 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- 1VM · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- esphome-airplay2 · github · 2026-09-11 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- homeassistant_espscreen · github · 2026-09-12 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- sdrpp-esp-sdr-source · github · 2026-10-03 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Roadie · hn · 2026-04-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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