Streaming Device

[Shankem831]

Hello all!

 

I finally got my server rack setup in my new house and I was wondering if there was any way to access a streaming computer/server that is in the rack from my living room without having to run HDMI cables. 

 

Thanks.

[Arika]

any remote desktop program

[Shankem831]

2 minutes ago, Arika S said:

any remote desktop program

I was going to see if their was a way to avoid that so that I didnt have to have another PC in the living room. I was going to see if their was a smaller device or something.

[Shankem831]

I just feel as if their would be latency issues with using RDP and trying to stream.

[Arika]

2 minutes ago, Shankem831 said:

I just feel as if their would be latency issues with using RDP and trying to stream.

either you have a direct connection to it, or you're going to be streaming in some capacity.

[Shankem831]

Really long HDMI cord it is then lol

[Eekiig]

If you have a dedicated GPU in your rack you should have a look at Parsec.

This software should be able to avoid issues with latency / performance.

(Its like Steam inhome streaming but for the entire desktop)

[AngryBeaver]

You can do this on the cheap with a raspberry pi 4. You will need to copy paste a dozen lines of code, but it is pretty simple.

 

You are essentially just needing something to serve as a thin client to connect to your vdi.

[Cyborg_delta1]

Like AngryBeaver said use a Raspberry Pi have content streamed over the network to it i.e. Plex, Kodi or Steam OS. But if you are running a network cable to your living room anyway and running the system on the box from your network cab you could use HDMI over Ethernet 

https://cpc.farnell.com/c/audio-visual/av-installation/av-distribution-splitters/av-over-cat-5