Sunshine installation guide

Windows

• Download and extract Sunshine-Windows.zip
• Optionally install ViGEmBus

Ubuntu 20.04

1. Download sunshine20-04.deb
2. sudo apt-get install -f ~/Downloads/sunshine20-04.deb

If this is the first install

3. sudo usermod -a -G input $USER
4. Reboot

Optional -- Run Sunshine in the background

1. systemctl --user start sunshine

Ubuntu 21.04

1. Download sunshine21-04.deb
2. sudo apt-get install -f ~/Downloads/sunshine21-04.deb
3. Follow instructions for Ubuntu 20.04 as needed

Debian

1. Download sunshine-debian.deb
2. sudo apt-get install -f ~/Downloads/sunshine-debian.deb
3. Follow instructions for Ubuntu 20.04 as needed

Changes

• Some cosmetic changes to the WebUI.
• Added support for Rumble with gamepads.
• Added support for keyboard shortcuts <--- See the README for details.
• The first time the WebUI is opened, it will request the creation of a username/password pair from the user.
• Fixed audio crackling introduced in version 0.8.0
• (Linux) VAAPI hardware encoding now works on Intel i7-6700 at least. <-- For the best experience, using ffmpeg version 4.3 or higher is recommended.
• (Linux) Installing from debian package shouldn't overwrite your configuration files anymore. <-- It's recommended that you backup /etc/sunshine/ before testing this :P
• (Windows) A very basic script has been added in Sunshine-Windows\tools <-- This will start Sunshine at boot with the highest privileges which is needed to display the login prompt.
  • install-service.bat
  • uninstall-service.bat