Stream games to your Raspberry Pi 2

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Moonlight is an open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream protocol. Moonlight allows you to stream your full collection of Steam games (and other applications) from your GeForce Experience compatible PC to any supported device and play them. These instructions will help you build your own embedded Moonlight device using the cutting edge unofficial port of Moonlight 2.0 for the Raspberry Pi 2.

Needed:

Raspberry Pi 2
Ethernet Cable
HDMI Cable
USB Charger
Projector/monitor/tv
PC
SD Card

Step 1: Setting up the PC

Verify that your PC is capable of GameStream here: http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience/system-r…
Download and install GeForce Experience here: http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience
From button in upper right, create an Nvidia account
Use GeForce Experience to update your drivers
Reboot your PC (yes really)
Run GeForce Experience
In Preferences > GameStream tab select ‘On my network’
Leave GeForce Experience running.

Step 2: Prepare a fresh SD card for your Raspberry Pi 2

Download and install SD Formatter 4.0 from https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index…
Insert SD card into reader on PC
Format >4GB SD card with SD Formatter 4.0
Download and extract NOOBS from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Copy NOOBS onto SD Card
Remove SD card from PC

Step 3: Installing Raspbian

Insert SD card into Raspberry Pi 2
Connect keyboard, mouse, monitor, and network to Raspberry Pi 2
Connect Power to Rapsberry Pi 2
Raspberry Pi boots into NOOBS
Select Raspbian
Click Install, Click Yes to Confirm
Wait for installation to complete
Click OK
Wait for Raspberry Pi 2 to reboot into raspi-config
Change User Password
In advanced options now would be the time to:
- Set hostname to Moonlight
- Enable SSH daemon
- Enable any other personal tweaks you may need
Select Finish and Select Yes to reboot
Wait for Raspberry Pi 2 to reboot

Step 4: Collecting Resources

sudo apt-get update

Wait for apt-get to update

wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.3/cmake-3.3.0-rc2.tar.gz
tar zxf cmake-3.3.0-rc2.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.3.0-rc2/ 
sudo ./bootstrap

Wait (going to take a while)

 sudo make

Wait (also takes a long time)

sudo make install 
cd ..
sudo apt-get install libopus-dev libexpat1-dev libssl-dev libasound2-dev libudev-dev libavahi-client-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjs-jquery
wget http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/libe/libevdev/libevdev-dev_1.4.2%2bdfsg-1_armhf.deb
wget http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/libe/libevdev/libevdev-tools_1.4.2%2bdfsg-1_armhf.deb
wget http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/libe/libevdev/libevdev2_1.4.2%2bdfsg-1_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i libevdev*

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