JetKVM Mini

Sep 13, 2026 02:49 PM - 1 day ago 3

JetKVM Mini is simply a smaller, much affordable JetKVM. It comes successful 2 models: JetKVM Mini pinch Ethernet for $39 and JetKVM Mini W, wireless, for $42. In packs of three, they go moreover much affordable and driblet to $33 and $36 per unit.

The lawsuit is aluminium, 42 × 42 × 23 mm (1.7 × 1.7 × 0.9 in), astir the footprint of a matchbox. It does what a JetKVM does: autochthonal video seizure astatine 1080p (up to 4K pinch JetKVM OS Services), keyboard and rodent complete USB, the aforesaid web interface, the aforesaid cloud, the aforesaid updates.

JetKVM Mini from above, showing the show connected apical and the buttons connected the side

Wired aliases wireless

JetKVM Mini has an RJ45 port. Plug successful Ethernet, video, and the USB cablegram to the target computer, publication the IP reside disconnected the display, and unfastened it successful a browser. Setup is the aforesaid arsenic connected each JetKVM.

JetKVM Mini W drops the RJ45 for a 2.4 and 5 GHz radio. It is for machines a cablegram does not reach: a PC successful different room, a container nether the TV, a rack pinch nary free move ports. Video and USB are the only cables. Setup happens complete Bluetooth from a browser connected your telephone aliases laptop: prime a network, participate the password, and the Mini W joins it.

Back of JetKVM Mini pinch RJ45 and 2 USB ports

Why a Mini

We wanted a JetKVM affordable capable to put connected each machine, and getting location meant starting over. The Mini isn't a stripped-down JetKVM. It's a JetKVM re-engineered astir the things a KVM needs to do well: seizure video, power keyboard and mouse, equine virtual media, and enactment reachable erstwhile the instrumentality it manages is not.

The consequence is simply a overmuch simpler architecture: an ESP32-P4X handles video capture, H.264 encoding, USB, and the JetKVM firmware without the abstracted DRAM and eMMC required by a Linux system. Around it, we built a compact aluminium enclosure, a elemental position show pinch beingness controls, and the aforesaid web interface, cloud, extensions, and update strategy arsenic JetKVM.

It does the occupation of a JetKVM, successful a smaller creation that starts astatine $33.

JetKVM Mini from the front, the show showing the IP reside and USB and video status

The hardware

The Mini runs connected an ESP32-P4X, a microcontroller pinch a hardware H.264 encoder. Video is captured astatine 1080p astatine 30 fps aliases 720p astatine 60 fps, encoded connected the chip, and streamed complete WebRTC to your browser. The Mini W adds an ESP32-C5 for wireless. It has IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax connected 2.4 and 5 GHz for networking, Bluetooth LE for setup, and IEEE 802.15.4 for Zigbee and Thread.

The Mini has 2 USB ports. One goes to the target computer: it runs astatine USB 2.0 High Speed (480 Mbps), presents keyboard, mouse, and virtual media to the machine, and draws powerfulness from it. Virtual media runs disconnected a TF Card successful the slot connected the broadside — driblet successful your ain paper and load it pinch the ISOs you need.

The different is simply a general-purpose USB port. It runs astatine USB 2.0 Full Speed (12 Mbps) and tin besides service arsenic a backup aliases secondary powerfulness input. It is wherever our extensions connect: we're reworking the ATX, DC power, and serial extensions to usage modular USB, pinch caller versions coming successful a later release. With an outer powerfulness supply, the larboard tin moreover run arsenic a USB host, opening it up to fundamentally immoderate USB instrumentality you take to support successful your ain firmware.

The software

We rewrote the firmware for the ESP32-P4X, and it will beryllium unfastened root from time one. It speaks the aforesaid protocols, truthful the web interface and the unreality transportation complete unchanged.

That intends the interface you already know: keyboard and rodent control, matter paste, keyboard layouts, virtual media from an ISO connected the TF Card, JetKVM Cloud for entree from extracurricular your network, Wake-on-LAN, MQTT and Home Assistant, OIDC login, and over-the-air updates pinch automatic rollback.

It besides gets JetKVM OS Services. The OS work for the instrumentality your KVM is plugged into comes retired successful the adjacent fewer weeks, and it supports the Mini from time one. It captures the target computer's surface astatine up to 4K, and adds a shared clipboard, a impermanent terminal, and record transfer. Read more.

The JetKVM web interface showing the AMI BIOS setup surface of the connected machine

Secure boot, erstwhile you want it. JetKVM Mini comes fresh for unafraid boot. A digest of JetKVM's nationalist signing cardinal is preinstalled successful the chip's eFuse, truthful you tin permanently fastener the Mini to JetKVM-signed firmware pinch a azygous mounting successful the web interface.