Get to know Moonlight streaming client in detail and enjoy your PC games on any screen without the need of a powerful GPU.
Through this client we can connect to a Sunshine server to play on our Smartphone, Android TV, mini PC, Retro Console or Tablet any PC game by streaming. We have a lot of configuration options in image quality, speed and variety of control settings. Undoubtedly a good way to enjoy any game without hardware limitations.
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what is Moonlight?
Moonlight (formerly Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’ s GameStream protocol originally used on the NVIDIA Shield and now supported on any device. You can stream your PC game collection from your Sunshine or GameStream server compatible PC to any other device that allows this client to be installed. Moonlight is perfect for playing games on your local network or on the go without sacrificing the graphics and game selection available on the PC.
Systems supported by Moonlight
We can use Moonlight to receive streaming from our Sunshine PC server on a wide range of systems and devices.
- Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Link and
- Android on Smartphones and Tablets
- Google TV on Smart TV, Box and Sticks
- Retro consoles with Linux and compatible
- ChromeOS on laptops and tablets
- Raspberry Pi 4 and other development boards
- iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV
- Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X consoles
- PlayStation Vita (Homebrew)
- Nintendo Switch / Wii U (Homebrew)
- LG webOS TVs (Homebrew)
Install and Configure Moonlight client
It is very easy to install Moonlight as a client if it is not already installed on your system. Depending on the platform you will need to use an app store or a file.
Download Moonlight client
We can download the Moonlight package from its official website, we will find all the compilations and files needed to run this streaming client.
- Download Moonlight Client
- Check first that it is not already installed on your system by default.
Moonlight Configuration
From the Moonlight client menu we have several options that we can touch, by clicking on the nut icon we get to the settings in detail.
Among the main settings we highlight the most important ones. We recommend starting to test it with the default settings and depending on the results adjust it to suit your network.
- Resolution: We recommend adjusting it to the size of our device, if it is a Smartphone with a small screen, maybe 720p is enough.
- Frame rate: Depending on whether it is a frenetic game (FPS) or a calmer one (RTS) we can adjust between more or less frames and gain fluidity.
- Bitrate: This indicates the compression quality we are going to have, the higher the bitrate the higher the quality but the higher the need for speed on the network.
- Frame Pacing: A setting that balances frame pacing with fluidity.
- Audio: Sound quality.
- Gamepad: Detailed configuration of the control we use.
- Input / On-screen controls: Settings for touch input.
- Advanced: Options for fine quality, HDR support or 120fps, we require in the server a modern hardware with support for HVEC Main 10 codecs.
Pairing Moonlight and Sunshine
If we want to connect our Moonlight client with the Sunshine server that we have mounted on our PC the process is very simple, it only requires us to enter aPIN.
Steps to pair Moonlight
- If we are in our local network, the server will be detected.
- If we connect with a mobile network outside the home, click on and add the IP of the server.
- Click on the icon of the server you want to connect and a PIN will appear
- In our server PC we will start the Sunshine WebUI, enter user/pass and go to PIN.
- Enter the PIN that Moonlight has given us.
- Automatically, it will connect and we will see the applications that we have configured in the Sunschine server, we can add the ones we want.
- From Desktop we start the remote desktop and we will have total control.
