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As someone who often deals with headless machines, the best solution I have found for using my laptop as a monitor is this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ2YDV7Q
by mrb 3y ago
As someone who often deals with headless machines, the best solution I have found for using my laptop as a monitor is this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ2YDV7Q https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJ2YDV7Q It's basically a chip to capture the HDMI signal from a headless machine, and expose an emulated webcam via USB to your laptop. It's so tiny the electronic is basically built into the cable.
For the keyboard I haven't found a good solution other than buying a standard wireless keyboard (with integrated trackpad, for the rare cases where a mouse is needed).
- RCitronsBroker 3y agoThats genius
- btgeekboy 3y agoThat's basically what I do as well. I combined a similar HDMI dongle with a Logitech K400 Plus wireless keyboard+trackpad combo. It's an absolutely terrible membrane keyboard for everyday use, but having the trackpad and keyboard in the same device, using the same single dongle that has a storage slot in the keyboard makes things really easy for light, occasional use.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoSo if you have a broken monitor on your M1 with this can you use it on your other laptop? Because my broken M1 has a working keyboard.
- rfoo 3y agoFor the keyboard I use a CH340+CH9329 cable, the former is a USB to UART converter and the latter is a UART to USB-HID converter. Feels unnecessarily complicated but hey at least it's only $3. It's effectively a USB "keyboard" controlled by another host. Then I use a ~30 line Python script to forward key press to it. I really hope someone make a better integrated solution (or me having time to do it), though.
- hipjiveguy 3y agodo you have a link to the cable you use, and what's your python script? Thanks!