Roadie
An open-source KVM that lets AI control your phone
Details
- External ID
- 47605633
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Roadie
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Roadie is an open-source hardware KVM controlled via HTTP. HDMI capture in, USB keyboard/mouse/touch out, all from a browser.Hardware KVMs with web UIs have existed for years (PiKVM, TinyPilot, JetKVM, etc.). Roadie adds two things they don't generally have: multi-touch support (so it works with phones and tablets) and a focus on agent-driven use: any browser automation tool can drive the /view page directly, or connect to the WebSocket endpoint for lower-level programmatic control.~$86 in parts, including two CircuitPython boards, an HDMI-to-USB dongle, and a Go server running on the host. No software needed on the target.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source kvm for ai to control phones
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Roadie involves custom hardware design, HDMI capture cards, USB HID gadget emulation for multi-touch, and embedded Linux device firmware.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires Single Board Computer hardware (e.g., Raspberry Pi CM4), an HDMI capture bridge (TC358743 or USB UVC), and Linux USB gadget kernel drivers (ConfigFS HID). The difficult part is implementing USB HID descriptors for multi-touch digitizers that mimic native touchscreen controllers across varied mobile OS touchstacks, paired with low-latency WebRTC video streaming and embedded systems firmware expertise.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Selenium, Appium
Feature requests: Fully assembled purchase option
Competitors
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Attention rank: #10 of 10 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 72 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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