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Show HN: Roadie – An open-source KVM that lets AI control your phone

hugs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:46:51 +0000

Roadie is an open-source hardware KVM controlled via HTTP. HDMI capture in, USB keyboard/mouse/touch out, all from a browser.

Hardware KVMs with web UIs have existed for years (PiKVM, TinyPilot, JetKVM, etc.). Roadie adds two things they don't generally have: multi-touch support (so it works with phones and tablets) and a focus on agent-driven use: any browser automation tool can drive the /view page directly, or connect to the WebSocket endpoint for lower-level programmatic control.

~$86 in parts, including two CircuitPython boards, an HDMI-to-USB dongle, and a Go server running on the host. No software needed on the target.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605633

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by hugs in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

hugs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:35:05 +0000

have you tried vibium's cli + agent skill?

New comment by hugs in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

hugs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:33:39 +0000

some serious people use vibium instead. (full-disclosure: "some serious people" is me.)

New comment by hugs in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

hugs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:30:56 +0000

that is the MCP vs CLI debate.

New comment by hugs in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

hugs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:25:31 +0000

i wish more people knew or cared about web standards vs proprietary protocols. the webdriver bidi protocol took the good parts of cdp and made it a w3c standard, but no one knows about it. some of the people who do know about it, find one thing they don't like and give up. let's not keep giving megacorporations outsized influence and control over the web and the tools we use with it. let's celebrate standards and make them awesome.

New comment by hugs in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"

hugs — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:30:35 +0000

most people just click the "internet" button and use whatever was already pre-installed.

New comment by hugs in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"

hugs — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:58:22 +0000

they probably meant desktop. i do browser test automation (selenium, vibium), and the lack of google chrome on arm64 trips up new users frequently. the workaround is to just use chromium, but that's a confusing extra step for some if it's not automated and hidden for you.

on that note, it would have been nice if they also clarified if this means they'll be shipping an official "chrome for testing" for arm64 linux, too.

New comment by hugs in "Vibium and Kernel: WebDriver BiDi support for cloud browsers"

hugs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:04:51 +0000

hi, i'm jason huggins (selenium, appium, now vibium). browser automation and testing have been my jam for a long time. for most of that time, it would be fair to say browser automation was an often forgotten and overlooked corner of the tech landscape. with vibe/agentic coding, things have changed.

the folks at kernel reached out a few weeks ago about adding support for vibium and webdriver bidi on their service. it's now live on kernel.sh's crazy-fast-browsers-as-a-service.

ama!

Vibium and Kernel: WebDriver BiDi support for cloud browsers

hugs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kernel.sh/blog/bidi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335050

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by hugs in "You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer"

hugs — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:45:32 +0000

openclaw is the napster of itunes.

people who have been around long enough know that we're currently in the wild west of networked agentic systems. it's an exciting time to build and explore. (just like napster and early digital music.) eventually some big company will come along and pave the cow paths and make everything safe and secure. but the people who will actually deliver that are likely playing with openclaw (and openclaw-like systems) now.

New comment by hugs in "Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market"

hugs — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:06:00 +0000

possibly also a boon for automated testing tools and infra designed for ai-driven coding.

New comment by hugs in "December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more"

hugs — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:32:52 +0000

not mozilla-related, but there's also the ladybird project if you're looking for sustainable alternatives: https://ladybird.org/

New comment by hugs in "Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP"

hugs — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:33:59 +0000

vibium clicker, too. https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.m...

"browser automation for ai agents" is a popular idea these days.

New comment by hugs in "Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone"

hugs — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:29:09 +0000

ignore the haters. this is cool. (and i've been vibe coding with claude code and termux for months. it's good stuff.)

i would highly recommend you add guidance on automated data backups, though. my pixel phone went "black screen of death" on me and one of my projects is trapped in there until i can replace the screen.

New comment by hugs in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

hugs — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:49:53 +0000

claude code 100%

New comment by hugs in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

hugs — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:02:47 +0000

i'm vibe coding vibium, a test automation tool in the spirit of playwright and selenium. (was #1 on hn last week for a little bit with a lively discussion.)

New comment by hugs in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

hugs — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 21:04:50 +0000

short-term mediation is always always always run it in a virtual machine with as minimal credentials as possible.

New comment by hugs in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

hugs — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:54:43 +0000

thanks!

New comment by hugs in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

hugs — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:22:36 +0000

it's named vibium for a reason.

New comment by hugs in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

hugs — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:49:24 +0000

google fell victim to one of the classic blunders. the most famous of which is inventing the transformer behind gpt but not productizing it first. but only slightly less well-known is this: letting puppeteer go without a plan.