Launch Game directly (Shortcut)

[maximilianoe]

I'm only streaming the whole desktop (via mstsc.exe) with one host. Is there a way to directly launch the "game" from the host with a shortcut? So not start -> select PC -> select game, just click a shortcut -> game launches on specific host.

I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn't find anything.

[jorys-paulin]

Is this what you're thinking about? Sorry for the bad mockup.

[maximilianoe]

Thanks for the answer but no, that's not what I meant.
Maybe this picture is better understandable?

I just want a shortcut to directly launch a specific host/game without interacting with the interface first.

[jorys-paulin]

@maximilianoe Yeah, we already discussed this in another issue, the idea was to use the URL parameters that you have sometimes in web pages, like https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl, where gws_rd is passed to the web page as a parameter, which Moonlight can use for your request

[maximilianoe]

Okay, so if I'm understanding you correctly it's currently not possible to do this?

[jorys-paulin]

It would require implementation, which could be quite simple if the code weren't that messy.

[AnthraxLeprosyPi]

Hey there everybody,

just stumbled upon Moonlight after years of performance issues with Steam Big Picture Mode and streaming...
Is there any update to this issue? Having a way to start games directly would be awesome.
At the moment it's kind of cumbersome so have Kodi on my HTPC start Moonlight and than having to either use a mousse, teamviewer or mouse emulation on my XBOX360 controllers to start a game.

It just breaks the experience...

best regards
Anthrax

[jorys-paulin]

@AnthraxLeprosyPi So you mean like a controller support? Controller support is kinda hard to implement here, as the code is pretty messy. It's not impossible though

[AnthraxLeprosyPi]

@jorys-paulin well ideally, I'd like to have a way to start games directly from within Kodi ;-)
Moonlight shortcuts with game launch parameters would be fine as there are Kodi plugins that can launch these...

[chrisism]

@jorys-paulin
Any parameter support yet, as the original question was? I could really use it.

@AnthraxLeprosyPi
Looking at Moonlight support in Kodi? I am busy with it, at the moment I only have the original nvidia client working on Android shield and getting the old Java implementation of moonlight working.

But I really need parameter support to get things going with Moonlight, else I will have to abandon all other OSes except the Shield/Android because that works fine on Kodi.

[jorys-paulin]

@chrisism I'd rather do it, but I find the code too messy to implement that in a clean way...

[microchipmatt]

@jorys-paulin looks like there are other people who like our idea of launching from the command line ;) with Moonlight Chrome ;) I see value for even more casual programmers who want to build simple launchers and preconfigured scenarios for less experienced users ;) looks like a started something a year ago ;)

[schmurtzm]

Yes good idea to be able to run always the same game quickly from another computer.... Just click on the shortcut and go , don't mind on which machine it is hosted (yes a kind of cloud dream ;) )