WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 I don't know about you, but personally, I like getting a lot of bang for my 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:10.400 buck. That's why I'm such a big fan of mini PCs like this. They're of course 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:14.719 small, as the name implies, but more importantly, they pack a ton of 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:18.240 performance in that small form factor, usually for not a lot of money. But 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:22.720 there is kind of a problem with them. At least for me, it seems like a perfect 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:26.400 home lab or a server for your small business. Look, they've even got dual 10 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:30.480 GB networking right there. That's SFP. That's enterprise, baby. But you know 00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:33.760 what's not enterprise? If you have any problem with these dang machines and 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:37.520 your operating system crashes or what have you, you just you can't access it 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:42.000 anymore. There's no remote management like you would get in a server that 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:46.079 allows you to to fix stuff remotely even if the computer is broky. And that's 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:50.559 where this comes into play. And thanks to a sponsorship from GLet, we're going 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:54.960 to be checking out their Comet. It aims to solve that problem. You can take 00:00:52.719 --> 00:01:00.079 pretty much any computer you have, whether it be a a beefy minis forum or 00:00:57.680 --> 00:01:04.960 your desktop or hell, a computer in a factory if you want an embedded machine, 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:08.400 and allows you to add remote management. So, if you have a problem with the 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:13.280 machine, you can still access it. And this one in particular is pretty cool 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:17.600 cuz it doesn't rely on you having to, you know, configure some fancy schmancy 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:21.600 VPN or whatever through their software. They already have the remote management 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:25.040 functionality built in. At least that's what they've told me. So, you should be 00:01:23.119 --> 00:01:29.200 able to just take this Bag Girl, we'll go over the ports in a second, plug it 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:33.200 into your computer and um be off to the races, ready to control it from anywhere 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.119 without having to do any network wizardry, which sounds pretty sweet from 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:42.159 the get- go. Oh, this is nice. I like these flat Ethernet cables. How long you 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:47.680 think this is? It's an 80 cm cable. That's an oddly specific length. And 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:49.759 then we've got a USB A to C cable, which 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:54.079 I assume is to power the thing, but we'll find out in a sec. And that one is 00:01:51.759 --> 00:01:58.799 100 centimetersish. I'm measuring this properly. Look how scientific this is. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:03.200 It's like even. But enough of cables. Let's take a look at the actual star of 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:07.360 the show, the Comet itself. It's a nice like anodized aluminum housing. I like 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:11.280 that because I honestly I feel like I could just toss this in my backpack and 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:16.959 not be worried about damaging it. We've got a USB 2.0 0 type A port HDMI. Like 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:20.000 to be clear, it's a KVM. It can do 4K, which is cool. We'll get into that a 00:02:18.239 --> 00:02:24.480 little bit more later, but don't expect to be doing 4K, you know, 144 hertz or 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.280 something like that. It's not for gaming. It's for remote management. Uh 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:33.360 we've got the USB type-C port, and if we look really closely, you can actually 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:39.120 see uh a keyboard and a mouse icon. So, I suspect that that's what you'll use to 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:43.200 take this thing and plug it into a computer and actually send your keyboard 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:47.200 and mouse commands remotely to that computer. Uh, maybe also provide power, 00:02:45.519 --> 00:02:52.080 but we'll see in a sec. There's another port. Okay, wait, that says 5V 2 amps. 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:56.080 Do I need two? Yes. Okay, we'll get to that in a sec. And then we have Ethernet 00:02:54.160 --> 00:02:59.040 because of course you need to network this thing to be able to talk to it 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:03.440 remotely. And on the back, what's this? A reset button. What does that do? I 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:06.879 don't know. I guess we'll find out. Let's plug it in. And since it is so 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:10.959 perfect for this, I am quite literally just going to use this minis forum as 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:14.800 our remote computer. We've got our A to C cable for HID or the human interface 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:22.640 device, otherwise known as a keyboard and mouse. So, we'll plug that into our minis forum here. And then we have a 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:27.440 USBC power cable. So, there is two separate cables. You need 5V 2 amp. Uh 00:03:24.959 --> 00:03:31.440 it does actually come with the USB power cable. It's just that our unit is like a 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:35.840 really early sample. Uh, so it didn't come with it, but if you buy one, it will come with both the USB cables you 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:38.879 need and an HDMI and of course the Ethernet we talked about before. All 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:42.799 right, we've got the GLKBM app installed. I'm logged in. Let's add the 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:49.599 device. Hey, look at that right there. It's immediately caught it. Add device. 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:53.440 We'll name this Minis Forum Guardian. 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:55.920 Yeah, binding device successfully bound. 00:03:53.440 --> 00:04:00.400 Oh, GLKVM would like to add VPN configurations. Interesting. Wow, 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:04.720 there's a lot of stuff in here. However, we don't have an output right now 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:07.840 because our computer is off. Oh, hey, 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:10.159 look. Look at that. Minis form LT. Let's 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:14.879 go. Immediately, it's it's up and running. Let's dive into GLKVM. We've 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:21.440 got two-actor authentication, dark mode. Oh, thank God. Yes. Virtual keyboard. 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:25.680 We've got audio. Did you hear that? I just got the 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:30.320 Windows like boot sound through my MacBook. Let's go to lossless quality 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:35.680 mode. I want that. I want that full full quality. This does have a quadcore ARM 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:40.240 processor in it. So, it can do 4K30 hardware accelerated encoding, which 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:43.919 means the like lossless quality mode should still perform really good. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:47.280 Obviously, if you're remote, like you're on the other side of the country, you're 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:50.880 going to have the inherent latency of your connection, right? Uh, but this 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:54.479 seems like obviously on the same internet 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:58.160 connection really good. There's obviously some input delay, but it's 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:03.360 it's not much. Now, if you're planning to use the Comet with a like actual ATX 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:07.840 desktop computer, they do sell or you can buy it in a bundle. This accessory, 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:12.160 uh, it's like a little PCIe card that doesn't actually connect. Uh, it just 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:17.280 sits in the slot. Um, you connect that to the Comet with a USBC cable and then 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:21.199 you plug this guy, which if you look really closely, actually has labels for 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:24.560 power button and stuff into the headers of your computer. And then I think you 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:28.080 can actually even pass it through with these extra set of ports. So your power 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:33.840 button still works. But then since it's actually physically connected, the Comet 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:35.919 can send a like physical button press of 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:39.440 the power button, the reset button, all of those sort of things. So that if your 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:43.440 operating system does crash, you still have that physical control. That would 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:46.800 mean you could also get into the BIOS, for instance, if the operating system 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:51.039 was like fully crashed, which is really the main selling feature here. So for an 00:05:48.960 --> 00:05:55.199 ATX computer, this is perfect. It doesn't work with our minis forum. So, 00:05:53.520 --> 00:05:59.199 they actually came up with a solution for that, too. Um, which I guess would 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:02.639 work with like a if you had a Mac or something like that, which is this. It's 00:06:01.039 --> 00:06:07.080 called a fingerbot. Look, there's a button in there. I press the button and 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:14.080 I'm sure you can see where this is going, right? 00:06:11.520 --> 00:06:18.560 It's a little finger bot. Uh, which I guess we can stick to the front of our 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:21.759 minis form and use it to turn it on. Is that what this USBA is for? Because 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:25.280 there's there's a little like wireless dongle. Looks like a like a a mouse 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:28.280 dongle. Okay, that must be what this is for. 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:37.360 It turned it on. Now, the fingerbot isn't something that they include by 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:42.160 default. It is an accessory, but if you need it, this could be a pretty useful 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:46.160 little add-on here. Now, if you were going to buy this yourself, you probably 00:06:43.919 --> 00:06:49.759 want to let this adhesive cure for like 24 hours before you try it. But for me, 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.360 I really just need it to work like once or twice. And then actually I do want it 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:58.639 to come off. So I'm just going to full send it right now. And hopefully that 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:04.800 doesn't fall off on the very first try. Oh, accessories. Fingerpot strength. 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:06.479 Lightly press. Oh. Oh. Oh, wait. I see 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:10.160 what the thingies are for now. It like clips into the end. It's like an 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:13.919 extender and they're like a little pusher things. Obviously with something 00:07:12.479 --> 00:07:19.360 that's like physical like this, you know, there's going to be a little bit of trial and error to get it how it 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:25.840 should be. But once you got this dialed in, it is a mildly hilarious but also 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:29.680 totally practical way to deal with something like this. You also could take 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:32.960 the ATX board and like solder it to the power button on the minis form, I'm 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:36.880 sure, if you really wanted to. But this way, no modifications required. You 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:42.960 could also hooked this fingerbot up to like a power switch or like a a reset 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:46.960 button on a power bar or something like that maybe. So that if something was 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:50.400 really dead and really not responsive even to the power button, you could shut 00:07:48.479 --> 00:07:55.919 the power off with that. That would be pretty smart. Let's try this again. 00:07:53.120 --> 00:08:00.240 Did it press? It works. And you can even change the 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.800 time to be like 8 seconds or something like that. So you can you can like hard 00:08:03.599 --> 00:08:13.680 shut it down. You know, it's not responsive. Hold the power button until it's off. Off. So, we're doing 2560 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:15.280 x440. Can I change the resolution to 4K? 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:19.120 Okay. I tried to set the thing to 4K and I couldn't figure it out. And then I realized there's a software update. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.639 There's a bunch of settings that are missing because we haven't done the software update. Oopsie. Here we go. 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:28.720 Now, we can change it to 4K. So, the highest resolution you can do at 60 FPS 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:33.599 is 1440p, which is great. But if we want to do 4K, we got to drop it down to 30. 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:38.800 This is changing the EDID, which is basically like uh the information your 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:42.880 monitor sends to your computer to tell it what resolution and refresh rate it 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:47.440 can do. Or in this case, our monitor, which is the GLET comment. It's 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:52.959 basically just telling the computer, yeah, now I can do 4K. There we go. 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:55.440 Beautiful. 3840 by 2160. Uh you can also 00:08:52.959 --> 00:08:59.200 make custom EDID. It's not exactly the easiest thing in the world to figure out 00:08:57.680 --> 00:09:02.480 how to do custom EDID if you haven't ever done it before, but there's some 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:07.040 online tools for it if you really need it for whatever reason. I mean, even at 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:10.880 30 FPS, the latency is still pretty good. We can rotate the monitor. We've 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.200 got dark mode. We've got a virtual keyboard. That's a nice touch. Oo, I 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:19.880 like the way that comes up from the bottom. We've got audio support. What if 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:19.880 I play a YouTube video or something? 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:27.040 We've got clipboard. That's huge. If you're like remoting into a machine, 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:31.279 you're trying to like boot into a recovery environment for instance, uh 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:35.120 having to like type out commands, which sometimes can be really long is a huge 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:38.800 pain in the butt, especially if you have like a disaster uh response plan and you 00:09:37.680 --> 00:09:47.120 already know what commands you need to do. This way, you can just paste something in here like Jake likes small 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:50.080 computers. Haha, cool. And then if we 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:52.959 open up a text box and click paste. Boom. We've got a wake on land feature 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:58.959 which is pretty cool if you got that configured. Virtual media. Oh, can I 00:09:56.640 --> 00:10:04.240 mount a Yo, how about this Blender image? Okay, 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:08.800 now I can mount this file sharing wise, which I guess should give me just like a 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:15.920 folder. Yeah, there we go. There's a folder. We've got our Blender file. We can copy it over. Sweet. 30 megabytes a 00:10:12.959 --> 00:10:20.320 second. Wow. Okay. But really what's the more important version of this 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:23.920 functionality is image mounting. So say you need to reinstall your operating 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:28.959 system remotely. You could upload like an Ubuntu ISO or Proxmox or Trunass or 00:10:26.880 --> 00:10:32.640 whatever it is and then you can mount it like an ISO, reboot the machine, which 00:10:30.959 --> 00:10:36.959 in our case would be with the SwitchBot and then you can install an operating 00:10:34.640 --> 00:10:42.240 system again without having to go anywhere near the computer fully remote. 00:10:39.839 --> 00:10:45.360 We've got tail scale in the app center. Then I guess I can access this over tail 00:10:43.839 --> 00:10:50.079 scale rather than the built-in VPN, which is nice if you uh if you want to 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:54.240 be able to have control over over the remote connection and and tunnel it 00:10:52.160 --> 00:10:59.279 through your own stuff. All right, last thing I want to try here. We've got a 8K 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:04.640 YouTube video playing. I just want to like use this to get an a vibe for how 00:11:02.160 --> 00:11:08.720 the compression looks. And in the full quality mode, it looks great. It's 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:12.240 responsive. definitely responsive enough to do the stuff you'd need to do, 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:15.680 especially if it was just a terminal. We got our fingerbot that works. We've got 00:11:14.079 --> 00:11:21.920 tail scale. It's basically got all of the features um that you could want in a 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:23.839 KVM. It doesn't have a web page level 00:11:21.920 --> 00:11:26.560 kind of access yet. You need to use the app. So, that's something to keep in 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:31.120 mind. But, if you're looking to pick up a GLET Comet KVM like this one right 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:34.800 here, um also keep in mind that they're coming out with a PoE version. And if 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:39.600 you're not familiar, that basically just means instead of needing USBC power, 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:43.360 you'll power this thing over the Ethernet cable that plugs into it. So if 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:46.800 you had this in a server room or maybe in an industrial application where you 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:50.240 already have Ethernet, you don't need to somehow figure out USB power, just PoE. 00:11:48.959 --> 00:11:54.480 And overall, seems like a pretty great KVM. It doesn't make any noise. It does 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:59.760 what it says it does. The quality and latency is great. It's got lots of customization. And you can check it out 00:11:58.079 --> 00:12:03.200 down at the link in the description where you can also check out maybe 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:11.920 another video you could watch. Like how about the time that I unboxed this 00:12:07.839 --> 00:12:14.240 particular minis forum at CES. That was 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:18.560 fun. I'm going to unbox it again because it's a new version. Cool, right?