Switched from Teleport to Barrier KVM open source software

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Aug 31, 2023 8:35

Teleport was good, Barrier is way better !!

Teleport is good and served its purpose. Barrier can do 4 (even 5) computers all in a horizontal row.

brew install barrier
brew uninstall teleport

** I use brew to install and update all the software on my system except for FileZilla which cannot be installed with HomeBrew **

I can't find anything better than FileZilla and FileZilla is not on Brew as of today. I am looking though **

I tried using Barrier with SSH and that was giving me some issues. It was doable but I didn't want to deal with the extra layer since it is all local. I probably should try Barrier again.

I am using TP-LINK DECO wifi and every time I reboot the DECO it changes my local IP to another number which caused me a lot of time resetting up Barrier, so I went into my DECO app on my phone and changed IP of my 4 computers to permanently be at a specific IP # using Address Reservation in the DECO software.

Really like Barrier. It doesn't seem to want to start automatically on startup so I added Barrier to my login items. The downside is that Barrier won't start until I am logged in.

Input Leap

Input Leap is the next best open source KVM software. It is not ready at this time so I will keep using Barrier.