multimedia/moonshine 0.16.0_1 FreeBSD

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES

cargo localbase:ldflags

Service scripts

moonshine

Message after installing

moonshine has been installed. Notes for setting it up:

1. Configuration lives in /usr/local/etc/moonshine/moonshine.toml
   (a moonshine.toml.sample is installed as a starting point).

2. Enable the service with:
     service moonshine enable
     service moonshine start
   By default it runs as root. Set moonshine_user in rc.conf to run it as an
   unprivileged user (see the rc script for all variables).
   A non-root moonshine_user must be in the 'video' and 'audio' groups so it
   can open the GPU/DRM render device and the virtual_oss(8) audio loopback;
   without them moonshine aborts the session (and kills the launched app)
   at stream setup:
     pw groupmod video -m <moonshine_user>
     pw groupmod audio -m <moonshine_user>

3. Pairing a client: when a Moonlight client requests pairing, moonshine logs
   a banner with a URL to open in a browser to enter the PIN, e.g.
     PAIRING REQUESTED - open this URL in a browser to enter the PIN:
         http://<this-host>:47989/pin?uniqueid=...
   When run as a service this banner goes to the log file, not the console
   (default /var/log/moonshine.log, see moonshine_log_file in the rc script):
     tail -f /var/log/moonshine.log
   Open that URL, type the PIN shown on the client, and the pairing completes.

4. Gamepad support uses /dev/uinput, which is not group-accessible by default.
   To reach it as a non-root user, expose it to the 'video' group (see item 2)
   via /etc/devfs.rules:
     [localrules=10]
     add path 'uinput' mode 0660 group video
   with devfs_system_ruleset="localrules" in /etc/rc.conf, then
   'service devfs restart'.

5. Audio capture reads the game's audio from the virtual_oss(8) loopback
   device /dev/dsp.loop. Enable it before starting moonshine:
     service virtual_oss enable
     service virtual_oss start
   The default virtual_oss configuration creates /dev/dsp.loop; point your
   playback applications at it so their audio is streamed to the client.