It is a lightweight but powerful NODEJS application which lets you access your computers desktop, filesystems, and command line, via a nice web interface.
It supports windows/linux/mac/bsd systems.
As a server component addon, ideally it should work directly within its HAOS addon, locally or via nabucasa cloud, or easily in conjunction with nginx or other similar addons.
For reference I am using HA Blue; integration into the HAOS addon ecosystem would be amazing for this and other similar setups.
Hopefully this will pique enough interest to get some traction.
No… it ONLY supports specific set of systems based on Intel Core processors with vPro/AMT embedded and ONLY with selected Intel NICs. Yes, it is OS agnostic, as it runs on the HW level (like iDRAC or iLO), so it does not care about OS installed. While implementation you ask for should be relatively straightforward (installation is already available as container), configuration of host system with vPro is limited to relatively small amount of HW and a bit nightmarish to get it working. Personally I use t on Minisforum MS-01 with VMware ESXi installed and it works fine, but it took me quite a lot of time to get it up and running.
Though someone would be interested to spend the time and make it happen…
Yes, you are right… I was so much focused on using it as replacement for iLO or iDRAC, that forgot that you can isntal MC Agent within OS and connect directly to OS. Personally using RDP for this, so did not configured it in my instance.
RDP is great, however meshcentral goes above and beyond, providing a list of connected devices and whether they are online/offline, lets you see what basic hardware a device has (cpu/ram/drives/network/etc), lets you connect to the desktop with or without notification to the user, let you see the actual physical screen(s) layout (instead of a virtual display with rdp) including multiple monitors, lets you connect to rdp sessions if you have an RDP server which has multiple users connected, lets you remotely view/download/upload the local file systems, gives you a system or user level CMD or PS command line, run scripts remotely on any connected device, and so much more.
it’s more like teamviewer (but free and open source) than rdp.
So now I get your point…