r/MoonlightStreaming

I have a high end gaming PC that I want to use to stream Crimson Desert at 8k120 to my iPad. I setup Moonlight and sunshine, but I saw a Reddit post that said there’s a way better version that makes it so I can access my high end gaming PC anywhere in the world.

They even host their own relay so I don’t have to do any firewall stuff, super kind of them!

But for some reason I’m experiencing latency, and a micro stutter. My pc is at my wife’s boyfriend’s house, and he has really good internet (10mb/s upload speeds) but the screen just keeps saying “slow connection to host”.

I was thinking about filing an issue on the repo for VibepolshineGPT but Claude actually suggested that I fork the distro and write my own version, so I did, and I was able to fix the latency but the micro stuttering is still a problem. Plus now my mouse moves on its own sometimes, and keeps trying to open my bank account bookmark in Google Chrome.

Anyone have any suggestions? Here are the specs for my high end PC btw:

AMD Ryzen 5 1600
8gb DDR4
GeForce GTX 980
128gb Kingston SSD
Connected via 2.4ghz WiFi

So ive been messing with these for months, and ive messed with literally every setting possible it feels like.

Anyone got the 3s pros who have actual good, consistent, non-jittery viewing through the glasses?

I have a Samsung s25 ultra, the resolution is wonky on the phone itself (2340x1080) because of the biggest screen but I set my artemis to display 1080p, at 120hz, with around 100mb bitrate (ive tried super high and low and all in between, adjusted by 20mb increments, its pretty stable overall)

Now, when I am viewing my pc through artemis, on the phone screen, its very smooth, looks VERY close to 120 fps, much like when im sitting at my pc monitor.

However, when I connect my glasses to my phone, all sorts of jank starts to happen, it feels like it drops to 90fps although everything says 120, like its just visually off. When I spin the camera around in game, it jitters, when I move around it jitters.

It's playable, but for the glasses to say it supports 120hz it definitely doesn't feel like it (yes its set to 120hz in the glasses setting)

Is it simply bevause the screen is "blown up" that the jitter becomes 10x more noticeable than on my phone screen or what?

I use an adapter rated for 120hz to charge my phone while also connect to the glasses at the same time, this issue still persists even with a direct usb connection to my phone.

I've tried setting the frame pacing to low latency, balanced, etc, (the warp options doesn't really seem to make any difference either, should I be sticking to these?)

Anyways, anyone got any ideas? I thought it was my network, and it could be a bit, but it looks pretty great on just the phone screen like I said.

Any tips on anyone who maybe figured something out would be great.

Like is there a setting im missing or something? Or am I running the resolutions incorrectly? Like I cant seem to pinpoint what's wrong.

At random intervals, I will experience the "slow network, lower your bitrate" error for a period of seconds when streaming from Sunshine to Moonlight.

This appears across both clients I use wirelessly:

• Thinkpad P14s Gen 2 (11th gen intel + nvidia t500)
• Steam Deck OLED

The host is a Cachy OS (KDE) machine running Sunshine, with a 9800X3D and RTX 5080, streaming at 1440p 120fps (however, this behaviour manifested even on a lower spec machine, 7700 / 9060 XT + at lower resolution) which is connected to the router (EE WiFI 7) via Cat6 ethernet. Ping testing to the router is sub1ms response times as well. I also have an EE Smart WiFi Pro "mesh extender" wired to a switch (all backhaul cat6) in another room to extend coverage in the house.

The laptop gets it worse, but I experience it also on the Steam Deck. Connecting the laptop via wired ethernet does seem to alleviate this on the laptop but I haven't been able to test on the Steam Deck.

Sometimes it disappears in a few seconds, others I the only way to fix this has been to disable wifi then re-enable, or restart my Steam Deck. And this is without anything being downloaded in the background.

This is even happening when I am sat no more than 3m away from the router with no objects blocking the path

Are there any suggestions on things I can try out here? I'm seriously considering picking up a proper mesh system later in the year when I have the money + time to set it up.

Even after using ethernet the network latency remains same(15-20 and even sometimes 30)

Hello, I just got a new LG C5 Oled TV, and I want to play my games from pc on the TV to enjoy that Oled display. Would I be able to stream it with either Apollo or Sunshine over wifi, I can't run ethernet cable as I live in one of those apartment that had no router. For what it worth my internet speed is 1gbps, I usually test it once a day and it always go up to 600mbps or 700.

If I can what the best android box/ stick I can use to install it on? I had MSI CLAW A8 running bazzite, would it be best to just install Moonlight on the Claw?

Thank you

Hey amazing people

I’ve got a decent setup with Apollo from my host to either my series X in the living area LG C3 or bedroom with a docked AYN Thor and LG C2

In the living area though I wondered if there was any way to activate Dolby atmos surround sound over the 7.1 surround sound I’m currently using.

No stress if not but I thought this was the place to ask incase I was missing out on a feature.

Seems like a steal for an amazing moonlight streaming decide

Took some time to summarize the setup to a one-click installer, tested on my main gaming PC (7500f+9070xt) and it worked fine. Since I've already explained in my last post how this works, I will directly jump to how to set it up.

Disclaimer: all scripts are vibecoded, use at your own risks (though I doubt there is any, all it does is emulating pressing the steam overlay hotkey); only tested on Bazzite gamemode, might or might not work with other distros with gamemode like SteamOS, CashyOS; don't use with online games, you can toggle them off individually in the plugin tab.

1. Install the "PauseGames" pugin, turn on "also on overlay";

https://preview.redd.it/a00v5eseyk2h1.png?width=447&format=png&auto=webp&s=d244a5b5c537745cf5a4ac7fb9b490b996164826

2. Check your steam overlay hotkey as in the screenshot below, I change it to "Shift+F1" to avoid conflicts when using a bazzite client, if you want to use other combination, change line 23 accordingly;

https://preview.redd.it/lbivlivfyk2h1.png?width=1633&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbed7b2bd5e9e9a9e57429325926eca59690d4ae

3. Creat an installer file named "install-moonlight-pause.sh" in desktop mode, copy the following script and past to it.

   #!/usr/bin/env bash

   set -euo pipefail

   echo "======================================" echo " Moonlight Auto Pause Installer" echo " (Sunshine + Journal-based)" echo "======================================"

   USER_BIN="$HOME/.local/bin" SYSTEMD_USER="$HOME/.config/systemd/user"

   mkdir -p "$USER_BIN" mkdir -p "$SYSTEMD_USER"

   echo "[1/4] Installing journal-based monitor script..."

   cat > "$USER_BIN/moonlight-journal-monitor.sh" << 'EOF' #!/usr/bin/env bash

   send_hotkey() { echo "[INFO] Sending Shift+F1" /usr/bin/ydotool key 42:1 59:1 59:0 42:0 }

   PAUSED=0 STREAMING=0

   journalctl --user -u sunshine -f -n0 | while read -r line; do

    # Debug output (optional)
    # echo "[DEBUG] $line"
   
    if echo "$line" | grep -qi "CLIENT CONNECTED"; then
        STREAMING=1
        echo "[STATE] STREAMING=1"
    fi
   
    if echo "$line" | grep -qi "CLIENT DISCONNECTED"; then
        STREAMING=0
        echo "[STATE] STREAMING=0"
    fi
   
    # pause only on transition
    if [[ "$STREAMING" -eq 0 && "$PAUSED" -eq 0 ]]; then
        echo "[INFO] Pause trigger"
        send_hotkey
        PAUSED=1
    fi
   
    # resume only on valid reconnection
    if [[ "$STREAMING" -eq 1 && "$PAUSED" -eq 1 ]]; then
        echo "[INFO] Resume trigger"
        send_hotkey
        PAUSED=0
    fi
   

   done EOF

   chmod +x "$USER_BIN/moonlight-journal-monitor.sh"

   echo "[2/4] Creating systemd user service for monitor..."

   cat > "$SYSTEMD_USER/moonlight-pause.service" << EOF [Unit] Description=Moonlight Journal-Based Auto Pause

   [Service] ExecStart=$USER_BIN/moonlight-journal-monitor.sh Restart=always RestartSec=2

   [Install] WantedBy=default.target EOF

   echo "[3/4] Enabling ydotoold service..."

   cat > "$SYSTEMD_USER/ydotoold.service" << 'EOF' [Unit] Description=ydotool daemon After=default.target

   [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/ydotoold Restart=always

   [Install] WantedBy=default.target EOF

   echo "[4/4] Enabling services..."

   systemctl --user daemon-reload

   systemctl --user enable --now ydotoold.service systemctl --user enable --now moonlight-pause.service

   echo "" echo "======================================" echo " INSTALL COMPLETE" echo "======================================" echo "" echo "Check status:" echo " systemctl --user status moonlight-pause.service" echo " systemctl --user status ydotoold.service" echo "" echo "Logs:" echo " journalctl --user -u moonlight-pause.service -f" echo "" echo "Done."

Make it executable and run it, if everything goes well, you should see the following, and that's it. Just press the power button of your streaming handheld to suspend/resume your games.

https://preview.redd.it/8gdrvephyk2h1.png?width=1106&format=png&auto=webp&s=9514e7cb4cdcfa0c7e6413deb4fd1a12905bd848

The installed script is located at "/home/username/.local/bin/moonlight-journal-monitor.sh", and two system user services are created to keep them running in background and persistent after reboot: moonlight-pasue.service monitors the streaming status change and sends steam overlay hotkey when triggered while ydotoold.service provides the ability to emulate the keyboard pressing.

TL; DR: 1. Install decky plugin "PauseGames" and turn on "also on overlay"; 2. change hotkey for steam overlay to "Shift+F1"; 3. run the installer.

I am connected to my PC through Moonlight. I have Cemu up and running, but the gyro is not going through. The "Use Motion" toggle is grey. Is it supported on Moonlight? I wanted this to be as similar to the original Wii U without using a keyboard or something like that.

I’m using Tailscale with Apollo, and I’m testing remotely on cellular data. I keep getting this error:

Connection Failed
RTSP handshake failed with error 60
Check your firewall and port forwarding rules for ports: TCP 48010, UDP 48000, UDP 48010

Has anyone run into this before or know how to fix it?

With all the forks and drama I just want something that works and I trust. I was using Apollo for a while because it was pretty close to Sunshine with some nice QOL improvements but has fallen behind on Sunshine merges. Now there is a new fork once a week with little to no chance of backporting to Sunshine and so much drama. I just want a streaming server app that I can trust, just works, and from a team that is just doing the work. Am I the crazy one?

I used sunshine and moonlight and now i learned about apolo and Artemis and i am not sure if i should switch, i stream to pc or tv Mosley

My PC has a 9800X3D, 4070 Ti Super and 64 gigs of DDR5. It is connected via ethernet which goes upto gigabit. I have Apollo installed.

I also have a SteamDeck OLED, which is connected to a dock (capable of outputting 4k120 if that’s important, I have it set to 4k60 connected to my TV) also via gigabit ethernet.

When I am playing games, like Forza 6 for example, I have a locked 60 FPS which is stable on the host’s PC and GPU utilization hovers around 60-70%

When streaming to the steamdeck, the moonlight frame rate drops as low as 40 gps and ruins the experience.

Any idea what is happening? I have tried vsync and frame pacing both on and off which does not help.