My setup: I have a PC (Linux) that I also use for gaming, but I want to connect it to a TV that's in a different room. Now, I know I could just get something like a Shield TV or Apple TV and use Moonlight and be done, but I'd have to buy that.
Since I also have a server that's basically right next to the TV, I was thinking I might be able to (a) stream steam games from my PC to my server (and then connect to the TV) and (b) send the input signals of my peripherals to my PC. I have two controllers, a Bluetooth one and one with a USB dongle. It would be nice to connect both, but that's really not a priority for a start.
Asking here because I'm new to unRAID and was hoping someone has experience with game streaming and can tell me if this would work and is worth it, or whether I should just buy a dedicated device for this. In the second case, do you have recommendations?
If I were to do this I would buy a usb pci board and a super cheap GPU to throw in the unRAID box. Then create a virtual machine to use both the USB PCI board and cheap GPU. Install your favorite Linux distro (or Windows if you want) and setup moonlight.
The thing is that I wouldn't do this. I have a shield tv and it works great with moonlight and the setup is cleaner. Any cheap Android tv dongle should be able to run moonlight so you don't actually need a shield tv.