Comment by 05
5 days ago
I'm thinking a better solution for console would be an SSH to serial bridge using just a spare ESP32 and something like ESP32SerialSSHProxy[0]. Haven't tried myself yet, and there is suspiciously few stars on that repo, but that would be a nice lights out-ish management system for some hidden away home automation server.
[0] https://github.com/programminghoch10/ESP32SerialSSHProxy
I used 1eur esp8266 with jee-link firmware:
http://www.zoobab.com/esp8266-serial2wifi-bridge
Yeah but do you really want to give everyone on your LAN unauthenticated access to the server console? :)
You can also throw together a cheap software KVM switch[0] using an ESP32 or similar.
[0] https://euer.krebsco.de/a-software-kvm-switch.html
That works sometimes. It can be flaky.