temstream is a Chinese-language guide to Moonlight and Sunshine — free, cross-platform, and low-latency game streaming over your home network or the public internet.
Are you streaming inside one home network, or reaching your home PC from the public internet? The two setups use very different tools and links — pick the one you actually need, and every entry below maps to it.
Play your home PC from anywhere in the world
Use Tailscale to put both ends on the same virtual subnet, and stand up the temstream management portal for public-internet access. Latency is higher than LAN, but as long as both networks are decent, picture quality is uncapped.
Send your living-room PC to the bedroom / balcony / TV
Just Sunshine + Moonlight. No portal, no port forwarding. On the same subnet, open Moonlight's login page, type in Sunshine's LAN IP and access password, and you're streaming. Easily hits 4K HDR @ 120fps. Lowest latency, highest picture quality. The recommended setup for home use.
The difference at a glance
If you only want to know which card to tap, this table tells you everything.
| Scenario | Scenario ① | Scenario ② |
|---|---|---|
| What you need | Sunshine + Moonlight + Tailscale , or add a management portal | Just Sunshine + Moonlight. On the same subnet, type the IP + password on Moonlight's login page. |
| Quality / latency ceiling | Mid-to-high quality; latency depends on both internet links | Up to 4K 120fps / 150 Mbps; latency < 30ms |
| Exposed to the public internet? | Depends on the plan; the VPN route avoids port exposure | Entirely on the subnet, nothing reaches the public internet |
An open-source reimplementation of NVIDIA's GameStream protocol. Cross-platform, low-latency, and maintained by an active community.
An open-source reimplementation of NVIDIA's GameStream protocol, maintained by the Moonlight and LizardByte communities.
NVIDIA NVENC, Intel QuickSync and AMD AMF are all supported, with a software fallback for anything without a hardware encoder.
Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, tvOS, ChromeOS, Steam Link, Raspberry Pi — and more.
Sunshine emulates Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch pads. Moonlight supports PS, Xbox and Android controllers, plus keyboard and mouse.
Reach your PC from anywhere using Tailscale — no need to expose Sunshine ports.
GPLv3 licensed. No ads, no IAPs, no subscription, no "Pro" tier. Community-driven, built by gamers for gamers.
One PC hosts, any device plays — start streaming in three steps.
Sunshine runs on your gaming PC, capturing the screen and audio and encoding in real time using NVENC, QuickSync or AMF.
The NVIDIA GameStream protocol (reimplemented by Moonlight) carries the video over LAN or via Tailscale.
Moonlight on Windows, Android, iOS, Mac, Linux or TV decodes the video and sends your controller and keyboard input back to the host.