I was researching Local LLM computer use agents the other night and ended up down a rabbit hole where I ended up discovering a whole new class of hardware I didn’t know existed: Agent-driven KVMs A lot of us IT folks who have worked in data centers are familiar with IP-based KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) controllers that let you remotely operate a server over a streaming video connection. These are especially useful when you need physical power button / BIOS-level “bare metal”access to a system that’s thousands of miles away. If you don’t have bare metal access, you’re going to be taking a trip to your data center rack to press a button or make a bios setting change. So apparently there are now relatively inexpensive ($80 to $150) IP-based KVMs that now allow for AI API endpoint/ MCP Integration where you can now connect your physical computer to local or frontier vision-capable LLMs and have the AI model of your choice drive the target computer via the KVM by it taking screenshots of the HDMI or USBC video-out feed from the computer and then sending mouse and keyboard control commands from the Ai model through the USB cable that’s connected to the KVM. What really got me excited about this concept is that it requires no installation of any kind on the target computer that you want to control. This is useful in corporate environments where you’re not allowed to install anything to the target computer (because it’s a managed endpoint that is locked down) The target computer just sees the AI as a standard allowed HID that it already has a driver loaded for. It doesn’t care who’s driving the system and doesn’t need any additional software since keyboard, mouse, and monitors are just generic and usually preloaded drivers. So essentially you could have an AI-driven KVM control any comouter or device that has a monitor output / keyboard mouse inputs. This could potentially open up the ability to have AI interact with antiquated industrial control systems running old shitty outdated OSes, or managed endpoints. There are security risks of course, but that risk is mitigated almost entirely if you’re using a locally-hosted VLM and not sending your screenshots to a 3rd party. I found are several inexpensive agent-driven options on the market now including: - Sipeed NanoKVM Pro https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM\_Pro/introduction.htm - Radxa Linkr https://radxa.com/products/linkr/linkr/ - Violoop https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bvio/violoop-plug-in-ai-for-your-computer I’m not selling anything or affiliated with any of these and can’t tell you which is best, but there are multiple options available for those who might need this type of device for one of the use cases I mentioned. Anyways, I’m curious to know if others see any other use cases for these agent-controlled KVMs that I didn’t mention.   submitted by   /u/Porespellar [link]   [comments]