# LizardByte/Sunshine

Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.

Repository: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sunshine
Homepage: http://app.lizardbyte.dev/Sunshine/
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: game-streaming-server, game-stream, game-streaming, remote-desktop, moonlight, geforce-experience, cpp, replicator-release-notifications, docker, winget-pkg, homebrew-pkg, rtd, pacman-pkg, replicator-custom-issues, flathub-pkg, maintainer-wanted, cpm
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:56:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 72, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1722, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 109, "gap_med": 87, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 40571, forks 2058 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:08.259633+00:00)

## What it is
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host that works with Moonlight clients, providing low-latency cloud gaming server capabilities. It supports hardware encoding on AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs (plus software encoding), gamepad emulation, and configuration via a web UI.

## Use cases
- stream pc games to moonlight clients
- self-hosted cloud gaming server
- stream my desktop to a phone or tablet
- replace geforce experience gamestream
- low latency remote gaming over lan
- play pc games on tv with a controller
- remote desktop with low latency

## When to choose
- you already use or prefer Moonlight clients
- you want a free self-hosted alternative to GeForce Experience/Shadow
- you need hardware encoding across AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs
- you want cross-platform host support including Linux and macOS

## When to avoid
- you need a turnkey cloud gaming service without managing your own hardware
- you need gamepad emulation on macOS (unsupported)
- you want a client-only solution (Sunshine is the host/server side)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: streaming, gui, http-server, video-processing, audio-processing
- domain: gaming-tools, self-hosted, media, cross-platform
- platform: windows, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: game-streaming, moonlight, cloud-gaming, remote-desktop, hardware-encoding, gamepad-emulation, web-ui, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- LizardByte/Sunshine (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:08.259633+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:24:03.701592+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:08.259633+00:00, sha ab294b20374d)
  - homepage: http://app.lizardbyte.dev/Sunshine/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:46:30.203055+00:00, sha a28aa455c3ee)
  - site_page: https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/latest/about/overview.html (fetched 2026-08-29T07:46:30.206713+00:00, sha 573e06ab5c02)
  - site_page: https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine (fetched 2026-08-29T07:46:30.209652+00:00, sha acd8e6cc4171)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.