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submitted 10 months ago by zipzoa@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

Basically I am looking for a way to use my pc which is in the basement (because I have 2 sim rigs) to RDP to my living room there is an Ethernet cable connecting the two.

I was thinking of raspberry + peripherals. Would it work normally?

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[-] SoItGoesdotdotdot@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna drop a dumb but effective answer:

100ft optical hdmi cable, optical USB hub.

Also there is a pcie card you can add to your PC to remote start it with a fob.

[-] Tamazin_@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Better yet would be optical thunderbolt+hub (just one cable), but the cable cost a fortune, and havent been in stock for ages and a dock cost quite a sum too.

Not that optical hdmi+usb cables are cheap either though.

[-] SoItGoesdotdotdot@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I got a 100ft iBirdie hdmi 2.1 cable running from my home office to my living room LG C1 and it only cost 70 bucks. I got full 10 bit 4k HDR and 120hz. Works like a charm. I've read reviews of people not having a great experience with this cable though so I may just have been lucky.

Thunderbolt would be better but I personally dislike thunderbolt when you need to run multiple screens. Also depending on the motherboard in question you may need a thunderbolt expansion card. Currently I run the tv, one 4k 144hz, and one 1440p 165hz monitors and it's nice to just have them all plugged in and disable the screen(s) that I'm not using. I use a Logitech wireless keyboard and track pad, xbox controller, and steelseries arctis nova pro headset to game while in the living room and it's glorious.

I also have a thunderbolt dock for my work computer at the desk to drive the two monitors. The monitors have built in kvm switch to support peripherals and a display for my home server as well.

Only reason I brought all of this up is to help people googling this issue and looking for solutions.

[-] zipzoa@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, sounds nice :D, but cables are already nested in my walls.

[-] SoItGoesdotdotdot@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

That makes this even easier because you can use an old cable to fish through a new one.

[-] zipzoa@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Even though it is the most straightforward procedure, I find it a bit daunting routing cables all over my house. Will think of it if everything else goes bad.

[-] SoItGoesdotdotdot@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Oh absolutely. It's nice when you have a wireless setup. I myself am going to look into the wireless solutions. Keep in mind though that at a certain point bandwidth is going to limit you. I play on my TV for one reason: 4k on a big fuckin OLED screen with HDR. I want the best possible picture quality and as many frames per second that my TV will display. 1440p is an excellent compromise to achieve a higher framerate but with hardware getting better and better and DLSS/FSR really getting better, you may find yourself limited by bandwidth. I believe hdmi 2.1 is 48Gbps and I know display port is less for the same quality but still beyond the max bandwidth of most routers

[-] vasveritas@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Parsec has the lowest latency of any large free remote view software.

You can get 10 ms round trip on LAN, which is less than 1 frame at 60 FPS. You need Intel CPUs with QuickSync Video or nVidia nVENC GPUs. nVidia has the fastest hardware acceleration of anyone. On both the client and host. A Raspberry Pi isn't supported by Parsec anymore. It's not the best choice for this type of thing. A $150-$200 mini pc would be the best.

[-] VTOLfreak@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

+1 for Parsec. I subscribed to Parsec Warp to run my gaming PC headless. A HDMI dummy plug will also do the job but make sure it supports the resolution of your client. AMD cards also work fine for encoding but you lose 4:4:4 color. At high enough pixel density, even the 4:2:0 color doesn't look bad.

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