One of those micro-USBs is just for power. It doesn't have data lines
connected afaik. I got some USB OTG hubs to connect a few USB devices:

  https://www.adafruit.com/product/2991

I don't know if your ssh scenario is possible. Some other thoughts is
VNC or a wireless/bluetooth keyboard
.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 1:38 PM Eric House <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> And if so, how? :-)
>
> A Raspberry Pi Zero has an HDMI port and two micro-USB ports. So while it's
> easy to connect it to a TV for use as a monitor, the most natural way to
> get keystrokes to it is by ssh-ing in over a usb, wifi or bluetooth
> network. Once I've done that, I'd love to have my ssh session take over, or
> share, the monitor while I continue to interact over ssh.
>
> I can probably modify the systemd script that starts agetty to start a
> screen session instead, and I could connect to that session in a way that
> shares it. But that would not be ideal (not everything runs in screen, and
> there'd probably be arguments about the console size that would be won by
> the smaller console.)
>
> I can imagine there being security reasons for this being blocked. And can
> hope I'm wrong. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Eric
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