Using Keyboard Maestro to help with PiKVM Clipboard

One of my least favourite things about PiKVM (which is otherwise awesome) is that there’s not a great ‘clipboard sync’ model for it; which is a pain when all you want to do is paste a URL or something into a remote machine.

LocalSend has been very very helpful for some of this (especially the reverse: paste back to my host). Today though, I had a freaking brain wave:

(Keyboard Maestro Macro Definition showing ;pbt doing “Insert Text ‘%SystemClipboard%’” by typing)

Basically, just use Keyboard Maestro’s existing “Insert Text By Typing” action to put the pasteboard into your remote machine! Amazing. Works great.