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That’s a great question- no a VPN is not required. If you’ve installed Sunshine on your host PC, and you’ve paired your Moonlight client to that Sunshine Host PC at least once on the local (same) network, then you can connect that specific Moonlight client to that specific Sunshine host remotely over the internet at any time thereafter. This is configured by default by the Sunshine application at the time of installation. For Sunshine V0.22, end to end encryption is enabled by default for increased security while streaming over the internet. So, in short, it should “just work” as long as your PC hasn’t gone to sleep mode (or off for that matter) while you’re away and attempting to stream over the internet, since Moonlight can’t wake hosts over the internet, only on the local network. So, install Sunshine, pair your Moonlight client while you’re still at home, then leave your PC on/awake before you leave the house. Once connected to a different network, open the Moonlight app and connect. Moonlight will also tell you if the network is blocking streaming connections, as some networks like hotels choose to block those ports, but I haven’t run into any networks that block Moonlight so far and I’ve been to several hotels in different states and countries while streaming with Moonlight. I hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions.

Great question, but it’s nothing too crazy- my gaming PC is wired into my wifi router, which is a TP Link Deco XE75 (non pro). It’s WiFi 6E, so I’m using the 6GHz band on my devices that support it, like the ROG Ally. But when I check the Moonlight analytics it says 1080p 120hz takes around 28Mbps, so it really doesn’t have much trouble on the network side, especially since my Gaming PC is wired in via Ethernet. It’s just my client devices like ROG Ally that have to worry about the WiFi Bandwidth. The real benefit to being on the 6GHz band more than just the speed (there’s more than enough even on 5GHz) is that it’s not bogged down by everything else on my network on the 2.4 or 5GHz bands. The only devices connected to the 6GHz band at any time are the devices I use for game streaming. That might change as I buy more devices that support Wi-Fi 6E or 7 as it becomes more popular in the future, but for now, that’s just the way the cards fall, on my network at least. I hope this helps, but please let me know if you’re having any more questions. Cheers!

The Quest 2 is currently out of stock, but it’s not labeled as discontinued officially yet… I’m just as curious as anyone why it’s been out of stock so long. Most likely an announcement for “Quest 3S” is coming next month (Meta likes October, historically) and they are clearing the inventory of the Quest 2 to make room, so to speak. At any rate I wouldn’t necessarily call the Quest 3 a bad device, but the Quest 2 was definitely better “bang for the buck” while it was being sold new for $200 US before going out of stock. In the meantime though, there are lots of Quest 2’s on the used market for even less, so still worth a look for VR on a budget. Otherwise holdout for news on Quest 3S. I hope this helps!

I’ve heard a lot of folks in the Moonlight GitHub forums / Discord recommend dummy plugs, I might have to check one out. That’s quick thinking on a combo keyboard! I’m always interested in how other folks are solving their problems with what works for them. Thanks for watching and commenting, it’s much appreciated.

There's an even better solution and its free ! its called virtual monitor by MikeTheTech , go check him out on youtube! i literally was about to buy a dummy hdmi but he saved me money lmao and time

@@dylanmacintosh no, use monitor profile switcher with a virtual desktop, its so much cleaner.

Right?? Like what are they charging for 😂

Haven’t seen the official announcement yet, but I’m hoping your comment ages well once the Quest 3S officially launches 👀

Great question, it looks like the Quest 2 is out of stock pretty much everywhere, sadly. So the best bet for a Quest 2 right now is a used one. If you are looking for brand new, the Quest 3 has had some sales lately but you could also hold out for a “Quest 3S” announcement, likely happening next month in October.

@@dylanmacintosh thanks

That’s true, the biggest upgrade is really the visuals. I switched back and forth quite a bit and didn’t so much mind the lesser Quest 2 visual quality knowing it was half the price or less, but I ultimately sold the Quest 2 and stuck with Quest 3, so I guess that confirms where I land on the visual quality haha… it’s worth it if you have the money. Really curious where “Quest 3S” might land, once it’s out 👀

I respect it. You can certainly stick to emulating on the device that you're holding if that's your bag. After all, that's how I've always done it before I started messing around with self-hosted game streaming. My follow-up question to you is, would you ever hybridize your gaming setup? For example, with my ROG Ally, I will stream games when I'm just around the house, but while I'm on the go I'll play the game on the Ally itself and sync the save files later. What do you think? 🤔

You see the vision! No compromises- just all your games, all the time.

@@dylanmacintosh exactly! the only time i couldn’t use it is if i’m offline somewhere but it’s not like i’m going out in the middle of nowhere or on an airplane all the time!

@@tparty2123 Precisely. Like my tongue-in-cheek camping trip mention near the end of the video where we are clearly having a terrible time with no internet, tossing the frisbee in the water over some cold drinks 😋😋 There's plenty of other things to do when there's no internet haha.

@@dylanmacintosh exactly! tbh when i first saw nintendo switch trailers i never understood the part where they’re playing at camping trips and such, at that point i’d rather enjoy that mountains! that’s why game streaming is an awesome option because i only ever need a handheld when i have internet anyway!

That would be sick. You might want to take a look at the new Gamesir G8 Plus, it should fit an 8" tablet. Fits anything up to 215mm (for instance Lenovo Tab M8 8" tablet is just under 200mm) amzn.to/3YXmFCp

@@dylanmacintosh thanks!

Anytime.

Hmmm that’s a tricky one, it sounds like an issue with whatever games / emulators you’re using doesn’t like to switch inputs. Is there a specific emulator you’re noticing this behavior on? For me, it was Ryujinx that had the most trouble with switching controllers because the input has to be bound in the Ryujinx settings before it can accept input for “player 1” for instance. Whereas any of my Retroarch emulators were automatic with Player 1 input.

@@dylanmacintosh Thanks for the reply! My issue is actually with bigbox itself. In the most common instance, I'll start it up streaming to my apple TV, with my PS5 controller bluetooth'd to my host PC, and my ps5 controller just won't navigate bigbox. So I'll go to the PC, disconnect the controller manually, and re-add it, then restart bigbox (all while still streaming), and it works. Although now that I type all this, I'm wondering if its not trying to pass a non-existent controller in through the apple tv as I had that setting on at first before deciding to connect the controller to the PC instead.

I think you might be onto something. The moonlight stream is trying to provide a virtual controller input, and it might end up passing your locally connected controller to player 2, if that makes sense. Just depends on how the game or emulator processes multiple controller inputs. For example, some PC games I’m playing have both controller and keyboard mouse input active for player 1 at the same time, so I can switch between them at any time and keep playing. Thats more common with single player PC games. But consoles usually map each controller to a separate “player” etc. I hope this helps!

Thanks for watching! Appreciate the support 🤍

Thanks for vouching for me! No matter how many game streaming videos I make, there always seems to be some naysayers who take it as a personal attack on their lifestyle, so I appreciate you vouching for me and commenting. It's free to give it a try so I have no idea why people get upset about it. And once you try it out, you quickly realize it's pretty awesome, especially once you get multiple devices in the mix. On the topic of phone controllers, they are a great idea in theory, but I haven't yet found one that I prefer to a standard xbox controller paired with a phone clamp. Especially if you already have an xbox controller lying around, that's definitely the way to go in my opinion. I explain it more in my video on the BackBone One. Cheers!

Glad I could help. Thanks for watching!

Correct, that’s what the “Steam ROM Manager” part is for. It can parse your ROMs and add them all to Steam as a non-Steam game without you having to manually add each and every game. If you only have a few games that you want to add to Steam you can certainly just add them to Steam as non-Steam games but if you have dozens or hundreds, maybe even thousands of ROM files that gets old real fast lol 😅 So, Steam ROM Manager is to help with that.

Xbox controller all the way. I briefly thought about getting the BackBone version 2 since it supposedly works with phone cases on, but that still doesn’t solve the glaring difference in using the full size joysticks, triggers, and clicky dpad on the Xbox controller. Pair that with the fact that you can use the xbox controller on more devices than just your phone makes it the clear winner yet again. And like you say, there’s a lot of people out here who already have the Xbox controller anyways, though I couldn’t assume that for the video, but yeah I only had to pay $10 “extra” for the phone clamp since I already had multiple Xbox controllers lying around.

You technically can, but it’s AirPlay 1 instead of AirPlay 2, so no multi-room audio with the a1264. Some people actually prefer the a1264 with AirPlay 1 for its lossless quality wireless music streaming capability to a single speaker system. If you only have one speaker system and you don’t care about lossless then it’s easy to setup, but if you absolutely need lossless you might need to jump through some other hoops to make sure you’re getting the full lossless signal. If you don’t care about lossless, but need multi-room audio then you’ll need the A1392 model with AirPlay 2. I hope this helps!

@@dylanmacintosh thank you, friend! You are professional 😎

@@koshernoedetya Thank you very much, I take that as a compliment in the highest respect!

That’s a great question, if you want to keep the same device for a really long time, I would say Quest 3. And if you wear glasses but don’t like wearing glasses inside the headset, there are prescription lens inserts for the Quest 3 that are super easy to use, they just snap in, and that way you don’t have to wear your glasses in the headset at all. I believe the official prescription lens inserts are from Zenni (that’s where I got mine) for $50 US. They work great and are very comfortable for me anyway.

@@dylanmacintosh ok but idk if I can get lens for it after and idk if it will be blurry

If you need glasses in real life, but don’t wear any corrective lenses in the headset, it will be blurry. Even though the lenses are right in front of your eyes, the Quest headsets actually emulates distance in the 3D image, because of the way the lenses work. I was surprised I needed glasses in the headset the first time I put on a Quest headset, but that’s just how it works. I wore glasses inside my Quest 2, but when I upgraded to Quest 3 I took the opportunity to get the Zenni prescription lens inserts so that I wouldn’t have to wear glasses in the headset anymore. I hope this helps!

Great question, Moonlight has built in mouse emulation. Depending on the client it can be different but the usual method to activate mouse emulation mode is to hold the Start button on your controller for 2 seconds. A message will pop up on screen saying mouse emulation mode is on. Once it is turned on, you can move your mouse with the thumb sticks and click the mouse with the face buttons, usually A for left click, B for right click. Touchscreen devices like a phone for instance can also use the touchscreen as a trackpad, with single finger tapping as a left click, and double finger taps as right clicks. I hope this helps!

The Steam games are running on a Gaming PC in my office, and just the video feed is streaming to the Apple TV in my living room, and the gamepad input from the Apple TV is streamed back to the Gaming PC that’s running the game, and so on. So, this is just a more convenient way of playing your Gaming PC in other rooms, but you’d have to have a Gaming PC first off. If all you have is an Apple TV (and you don’t currently have any interest in getting a Gaming PC) then I suppose you’d be looking at services that can run on Apple TV such as Apple’s own Apple Arcade subscription. Currently, there are no cloud gaming apps available for Apple TV like Xbox Cloud Gaming or GeForce Now, because of the way Apple runs its App Store it doesn’t allow “other stores” on its store. But those App Store rules have changed recently due to an EU ruling, and has led to the introduction of emulators for iOS so it could be possible in the future that Apple might bring apps like Xbox and GeForce to Apple TV, but that’s why you haven’t seen them thus far. Local multiplayer on the Apple TV just comes down to what the Apple TV game’s developer supports. Some games are only single player while others are single player with online multiplayer, and very few these days are local multiplayer (couch co-op) but the ATV device itself supports 4 simultaneous Bluetooth controller connections. So if the game supports 4 players local multiplayer, you are in luck. I hope this helps, if you have any more questions let me know.

Great question, it appears the Meta Quest 2 is out of stock on Meta’s own store site. So while it may be in stock at other stores, we might not see the sale price come back to match Meta until the Meta store itself can restock. So, I would wait until then. Or, check out the used market if you can’t wait. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Okay that’s next level 🤣🤣🤣 where can we see a pic?

@@dylanmacintosh i will soon make a video about it. still need some editing but its comming at some point. im also missing som VKB Sticks thats in the mail.

Awesome, can’t wait to see it!

Depends, what sim are you looking to play?

@@dylanmacintosh f1 23 vr.

i was using steam link but it wasnt really working right..

Hmmm for F1 23 VR I usually connect via my link cable, so it opens to Oculus Home (maybe it’s called Meta Link app now) but it’s the white void type of place. Then I launch Steam VR from there, and then launch F1 23 from the Steam Games panel and it prompts to open regular or VR mode. I just check the box to remember my choice and always open in VR mode because VR is the only way I play F1 now that I’ve got it going.

@@dylanmacintosh thx I’ll try that

Yes, actually 2D video quality like movies and TV is one of the things I was most impressed with on Quest 2. It’s pretty awesome to just sit in your own movie theater and watch whatever you want on a giant screen. You can also easily add headphones with the 3.5mm jack for great sound too.

@@dylanmacintosh thanks am 14 and have made £200 in 9 months of selling csgo skins am too young for a job so now I can buy my first vr headsets

@@dylanmacintosh is the quest 2 good for horror games on steam I can connect to my pc

It sure does.

Not to worry, the sim starts with the game- not the equipment. I played racing games with just a regular gamepad since I was a kid up til recently. Took a long time to upgrade gradually to the wheel, chair, headset and all that.

That’s awesome! Glad this video helped you out. Why spend more when there’s a first party solution for less? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How did you install the Airport Express 2. Gen? I can't get it to work on my Mac which is running Sonoma or the latest iPhone.

@@atilla1950I installed Airport Utility on my iPhone and completed the setup. I’m not sure how it’s done on a Mac unfortunately.

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Appreciate it!

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