We do the same and it works well. We prefer a handheld keyboard/mouse to control it. We've tried several and the Lenovo N5902 [1] is our favorite by far.
It's also useful to have the Unified Remote server [2] running on the media computer so you can control it from your phone when you need to.
What's crazy is that Snowflake made MFA enforcement available only 5 days ago.