Well, it's not old news per se but those who know the Moonlight Project, know how great it is! Similar to steam link, moonlight project allows you to stream ALL your games on your magnificent desktop to your "less enthusiastic" machine. Like an old RPi laying around without a purpose/project. Moonlight is what you need! I would like very much if Linus could do a video about it, i think it's a cool and simple project to play with.
Moonlight Project:
https://moonlight-stream.org/
Install from scratch on Raspbian Buster:
(skipping the flash the microSD, initial setup of Pi and possible OC)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git libopus0 libexpat1 libasound2 libudev1 libavahi-client3 libcurl4 libevdev2 libenet7 libssl-dev libopus-dev libasound2-dev libudev-dev libavahi-client-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libevdev-dev libexpat1-dev libpulse-dev uuid-dev libenet-dev cmake gcc g++ fakeroot debhelper
(commonly installed but still...)
sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-dev
git clone https://github.com/irtimmer/moonlight-embedded.git
cd moonlight-embedded
git submodule update --init
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ../
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
Reboot and Done!
Go to Geforce Experience -> Options (the little wheel on top right)-> Shield -> And Enable GameStream. "Server" side, you're set!
Now on the pi:
moonlight list (it will error out but still scan for enabled gamestreams and that's how you get the IP for your machine. Either that or you'll just need to check the IP of your server.)
moonlight pair XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (IP address of the server)
Take note of the Pin code generated by the Pi, go to your server and insert the pin. And DONE! Now you're paired with your gaming machine!
To start a moonlight session just type on terminal:
moonlight stream -1080 -app "(App_Name_In_Your_GFExperience_Machine)"
Enjoy!
P.S. - App_Name_In_Your_GFExperience_Machine is the list of games Geforce Experience detects. You can add them manually on GFE -> Shield and pressing add. Bonus tip: it also works with mstsc if you want
Pro Tip: It also works from internet access like if you have your low budget laptop and want to kill some time while waiting for a doctors appointment. You just need a 5mbps connection (at least!)
LINUS, PUT ANTHONY ON THE LINE!!! We got some serious work to do!!
(been tested with RPi 2/3 and i was actually surprised how low latency it was!!)
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