DexoPad vs NanoOps

DexoPad is a companion app for the DexoPad hardware dongle — a wireless BLE-to-USB HID bridge that turns your iPhone or iPad into a keyboard, trackpad, and shortcut controller for any computer. The DexoPad dongle (sold separately) plugs into your target computer's USB port and communicates with the app over Bluetooth Low Energy — no drivers, no companion software, no network configuration required. Because the DexoPad dongle presents itself to your computer as a standard USB keyboard and mouse (HID), it works everywhere: Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and even at the BIOS/UEFI level before any operating system boots. Type into BIOS setup, navigate boot menus, unlock encrypted drives, or run keyboard-only servers — DexoPad works when nothing else can. Key features: • Full keyboard input with modifier combos: Ctrl+C, Cmd+V, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Win+R, and every F-key (F1–F12) plus arrow, Home/End, PageUp/Down, and Insert/Delete. • Precision touchpad with two-finger scroll, tap-to-click, drag, and left/right/middle mouse buttons. • Multi-OS Unicode input: Type Chinese, Japanese, Korean, emoji, and other Unicode characters into any target OS — DexoPad handles keyboard layout translation for Windows (Alt+Numpad), macOS (Unicode Hex Input), and Linux (Ctrl+Shift+U). • ASCII mode for pre-OS environments: Send raw HID scancodes when no IME is available (BIOS, GRUB, recovery consoles, embedded systems). • Custom shortcut buttons: Save your favorite key combinations as one-tap actions. • Low-latency BLE: Real-time typing and pointer control over Bluetooth. • Multi-device pairing: Manage several DexoPad dongles from one iPhone. Perfect for: • Remote IT support and system administration • Developers working with headless machines and embedded devices • Presenters who need a discrete, wireless remote • Anyone who wants their phone to double as a keyboard/mouse for a nearby computer

NanoOps is the mobile client for the open-source NanoLink ecosystem, built for system administrators, developers and HomeLab users. Connect to your own NanoLink Server to monitor infrastructure and perform permission-controlled remote operations from anywhere. Mobile app • Manage multiple NanoLink Server instances • View live CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU and NPU metrics • Explore history charts, online status, alerts and audit records • Use L0–L3 permission tiers for remote terminal and node actions • Pair with QR codes, six-digit codes, an account or a device token • Keep tokens and credentials in platform secure storage • Use English or Simplified Chinese, light/dark themes and local notifications Server • Self-hosted Go server and web console • Receives Agent data over gRPC and serves clients through REST and WebSocket • Includes accounts, device pairing, node groups, permissions, alerts, audit and metric history • Supports TLS, optional mTLS, token authentication and MCP AI operations integration Agent • Rust implementation for Linux, macOS and Windows • Collects CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU, NPU, system and session data • Supports offline buffering, automatic reconnect and multiple servers • Runs permission-controlled process, service, Docker, file, log, deployment and shell actions • Protects high-risk actions with allowlists/blocklists, SuperToken, rate limits and audit logs NanoOps does not provide hosted servers. To use the full product, deploy NanoLink Server and install NanoLink Agent on the computers you manage. NanoLink is open source under the MIT License: https://github.com/chenqi92/NanoLink