Good idea IMHO, and I never heard about these HDMI dummies. Might try this.

You’re right, they are not as expensive as I remembered. I’ll try to find one on ebay. How do you access the console - browser with Java applet?

Uses quite a lot of space, that’s why I’d prefer slide-out if it weren’t so expensive.

You’ve got 2 kidneys. You generously give one to someone in need.

You have 1 kidney. You now have a single point of failure, where you had redundancy before.

IT guy here, just in case that might have gibt unnoticed.