> An idea I have floating around in the back of my head is to just use a raspberry pi as a bmc on consumer grade hardware, I am sure it would turn out more comp

> An idea I have floating around in the back of my head is to just use a raspberry pi as a bmc on consumer grade hardware, I am sure it would turn out more complicated than this, but basically just hook the power button, i2c, and other headers to the pi's gpio. now you have a bmc that runs an off the shelf os. You’re looking for one of the following projects: https://pikvm.org/ https://pikvm.org/ https://tinypilotkvm.com/ https://tinypilotkvm.com/