Ultimate Raspberry Pi 3 Entertainment System

What the purpose of this?

I spend a lot of time looking for projects to archive the goal of having a Raspberry on my TV room to play games and do some other stuff like blocking ads...

After the steps, what I get?

• AdBlocker for your home Network(using Pi Hole)
• Monitoring Dashbord for Raspberry CPU, Memory...
• Game streaming using Nvidia Stream technology (Moonlight Embedded Project)

Pre-requisites

1. Access through SSH to your Raspberry
2. A gamer desktop to proccess your games
3. Configure your game's shortcuts on PC to be open inside Steam
4. Bluetooth gamepads (I'm using Xbox One S controllers)

What I need to do?

This guide is separated in 4 steps:

1. Configure Pi Hole
2. Configure the dashbaord to check raspberry resources (CPU, Mem...)
3. Configure xPadNeo to use Xbox One S controllers
4. Configure Moonlight Embedded to play games from your Desktop

1. Configure Pi hole (link to project)

This is the most straight foward of all. You just need to run curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash and follow the steps provided on the wizard

2. Configuring the dashboard for Raspberry

This process is easy to follow too, just paste and copy the following commands:

Install dirmngr package

$ sudo apt-get install dirmngr

Configure the public keys for the repository

$ sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2C0D3C0F
$ sudo wget http://goo.gl/vewCLL -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rpimonitor.list

Update packages and install from repository

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rpimonitor

(Optional) If you want to show deprecated packages installed on your Raspberry, use this command

$ sudo /etc/init.d/rpimonitor update

Done, you can access the dashboard from this address:

http://[raspberry_ip]:8888

3. Configure xPadNeo to use Xbox One S Controllers (link to project)

The first step is to configure your raspberry with the last updates for dkms and kernel-headers

$ sudo apt-get install dkms raspberrypi-kernel-headers

Then, after this, you can clone the project and install

$ git clone https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo.git && cd xpadneo && ./install.sh

Just to be sure everything will be loaded fine, restart your raspberry

$ sudo reboot

Then you must pair the xbox controller (bluetooth version) with your raspberry

$ sudo bluetoothctl

[bluetooth]# scan on
[bluetooth]# pair <CONTROLLER_MAC>
[bluetooth]# trust <CONTROLLER_MAC>
[bluetooth]# connect <CONTROLLER_MAC>

4. Configure Moonlight Embedded project

First you need to add package's to repositories list

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy and paste this line (if you're using raspbian strech)

deb http://archive.itimmer.nl/raspbian/moonlight stretch main

Then, install the GPG key

$ wget http://archive.itimmer.nl/itimmer.gpg && sudo apt-key add itimmer.gpg

Update packages and finally install moonlight-stream

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install moonlight-embedded

Pair your moonlight client with your Nvidia GPU using (the 4 number code will be inserted on your streaming machine)

$ moonlight pair

I found that the best configuration for my raspberry is the following, but you can play with numbers too. All the info is on (this link)

$ moonlight stream -1080 -fps 60 -bitrate 7500 -nosops

EXTRA

Here is the mapping for the newest Xbox One S bluetooth controller

050000005e040000fd02000030110000,Xbox Wireless Controller,a:b0,b:b1,x:b2,y:b3,start:b7,guide:b8,back:b6,leftstick:b9,rightstick:b10,leftshoulder:b4,rightshoulder:b5,dpup:h0.9,dpleft:h0.8,dpdown:h0.12,dpright:h0.2,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightx:a3,righty:a4,lefttrigger:a2,righttrigger:a5,platform:Linux