#Limelight Pi

Limelight is an open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream, as used by the NVIDIA Shield, but built for Linux/OSX/Windows.

Limelight Pi allows you to stream your full collection of Steam games from your powerful Windows desktop to your Raspberry Pi.

For a demo see this video.

Limelight-common is the shared codebase between different implementations of Limelight

Limelight also has an Android implementation.

Limelight-pc also has an Linux (X)/OSX/Windows implementation.

##Features

• Streams Steam and all of your games from your PC to your Raspberry Pi.

##Installation

• Download GeForce Experience and install on your Windows PC
• Install oracle-java8-jdk (Raspbian) or download and install Oracle Java SE (ARM v6 Hard Float)
• Download the appropriate jar from the GitHub releases page
• Install libopus0 (Debian/Raspbian) or opus (ArchLinux/Fedora/Pidora)
• Configure sound

##Requirements

• GFE compatible computer with GTX 600/700 series GPU (for the PC you're streaming from)
• High-end wireless router (802.11n dual-band recommended) or Wired network

##Usage

• Ensure your machine and Raspberry Pi are on the same network
• Turn on Shield Streaming in the GFE settings
• Start Limelight Pi with -pair option
• Accept the pairing confirmation on your PC
• Start Limelight Pi normally
• Play games!

##Compile

• Install ant (Debian/Raspbian/Fedora/Pidora) or apache-ant (Archlinux)
• Install audio libraries libopus-dev and libasound2-dev (Debian/Raspbian) or opus-devel and alsa-lib-devel (Fedora/Pidora) or opus and alsa-lib (Archlinux)
• Install Raspberry Pi development libraries libraspberrypi-dev (Debian/Raspbian) or raspberrypi-vc-libs-devel (Fedora/Pidora) or raspberrypi-firmware-tools (Archlinux)
• Set JAVA_HOME to your JDK installation directory for example export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-armhf
• Build using Ant ant

##Contribute

This project is being actively developed at XDA

1. Fork us
2. Write code
3. Send Pull Requests

##Authors

• Iwan Timmer
• Cameron Gutman
• Diego Waxemberg
• Aaron Neyer
• Andrew Hennessy