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Streaming PC Games to the Raspberry Pi
Manage episode 153272284 series 1086570
Forget the Steam Link by Valve or NVIDIA Shield to stream your PC games! With a little bit of setup you can get GameStream working on a Raspberry Pi today!
Setup:
You will first need to install the latest Rasbian from here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Next download Limelight Embedded. Grab the latest limelight.jar and libopus.so from here:
https://github.com/irtimmer/limelight-embedded/releases
Make sure that your gaming PC has an NVIDIA GTX 600+ graphics card and GeForce Experience installed.
Pairing:
To make things easier, enable SSH on the RPi and tunnel in to the machine. Here are some useful commands:
List compatible PCs
java -jar limelight.jar list
Pair with PC
java -jar limelight.jar pair PC-IP
Map a controller
java -jar limelight.jar map -input /dev/input/eventX mapfile.map
Start streaming
java -jar limelight.jar stream -1080/720 -60fps/30fps PC-IP -app Steam -mapping mapfile.map
Make sure to check the Limelight help file in case things have changed since this post!
Download the episode from here.
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Manage episode 153272284 series 1086570
Forget the Steam Link by Valve or NVIDIA Shield to stream your PC games! With a little bit of setup you can get GameStream working on a Raspberry Pi today!
Setup:
You will first need to install the latest Rasbian from here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Next download Limelight Embedded. Grab the latest limelight.jar and libopus.so from here:
https://github.com/irtimmer/limelight-embedded/releases
Make sure that your gaming PC has an NVIDIA GTX 600+ graphics card and GeForce Experience installed.
Pairing:
To make things easier, enable SSH on the RPi and tunnel in to the machine. Here are some useful commands:
List compatible PCs
java -jar limelight.jar list
Pair with PC
java -jar limelight.jar pair PC-IP
Map a controller
java -jar limelight.jar map -input /dev/input/eventX mapfile.map
Start streaming
java -jar limelight.jar stream -1080/720 -60fps/30fps PC-IP -app Steam -mapping mapfile.map
Make sure to check the Limelight help file in case things have changed since this post!
Download the episode from here.
Help support us on Patreon!
http://patreon.com/possiblyunsafe
Don’t want to give us money? No problem! There are tons of other ways to help. Share an episode with friends, send in some feedback, or go to the Apple store and open up this page on every single computer. Every bit helps.
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