Moonlight streaming embedded vs flatpak

mcesso709

I’ve been trying to get moonlight embedded working on batocera (35) for quite some time now, but after time and time again, the launching the game through the batocera menu will launch the game, but put me back in the menu. The game ends up open and running on the host PC, but doesn’t want to stream.

As a temporary solution, I’ve installed moonlight via flatpak, and streaming works almost perfectly, but the “Gamelist” doesn’t show up in my batocera menu in the same fashion it would with the embedded version. Is there a way to configure this so that the games show up like normal, but launch through the flatpak version of moonlight? Alternatively, are there any known solutions to moonlight embedded fixing this type of issue? TIA, this is my first forum post so apologies if I’ve forgotten any info.

c97

Hi, I’m on 36 and have exact same problem.

topochase

You can add each game individually in the ports section. I did it by creating a file with the name of the game and .sh extension. in userdata/roms/ports IE

GTAV.sh

then, you want to add these lines to the file with nano or vim

/userdata/saves/flatpak/binaries/app/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight/current/active/export/bin/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight stream YOURHOSTIPADDRESS "NAMEOFTHEGAME"

##these lines are to quit the session when exiting moonlight
/userdata/saves/flatpak/binaries/app/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight/current/active/export/bin/com.moonlight_stream.Moonlight quit YOURHOSTIPADDRESS "NAMEOFTHEGAME"

you can get the name of the game by running:

batocera-moonlight-list or moonlight list in the terminal or via ssh

Finally you want to chmod +x the previously created file

chmod +x GTAV.sh

Update your game lists and launch. My games launch this way but I don’t get controller support, but even launching the flatpak moonlight the controller doesn’t work, I don’t know why. As a workaround I’m using moonlight.appimage and this way the controller works.