Homebrew RELEASE SKyNX V1.0 - Stream your PC games to your Nintendo Switch!

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It's possible to make a more complete log generator to try to find what it's going on?
For the audio error, no ammount of logging will tell me the issue. It is alot more work to ask people to send their logs rather than asking for their FW version and other info.
The issues people are experiencing now are alot less actual exceptions happening and more so unintended glitches that I wouldn't be able to log happening. And the only difference between peoples switches is their fw version and cfw.
For the desktop streamer though, it would be useful to have logs, for now people copy and paste the console output but. I might aswell add a submit bug report button built into the streamer.
 
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Hmmm, not sure why but I'm getting a frequent audio pop with the newest version. My home network is quite good and I've tried adjusting the settings on the quality slider but I haven't been able to reduce it. Also tried switching between CPU and GPU encoding. The noise seems to be rhythmic - like it'd happening at certain intervals. Maybe something with the latency?

The newer version has a harder time connecting for me as well. I used to be able to just leave the encoder running on my pc, start the app on the console, and get straight into it. Now it's more hit or miss. Sometimes I have to go to my laptop and restart the stream manually.
 
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Wow amazing app thank you so much , works really well with games however when I put emulators in full screen I just get a blank box D666E91C-9EB7-442F-8768-37E69368443E.jpeg
 

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Wow amazing app thank you so much , works really well with games however when I put emulators in full screen I just get a blank box View attachment 207337

Try disabling the set resolution to 720p when starting the stream feature and manually set your resolution through the display settings before starting the streamer app that fixed this for me
 
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Hi, I tried this yesterday and I was amazed about how good the implementation is, really! I mean, it's one of the very few homebrew that are actually useful for me and older implementations were either too slow or too much hassle to get them working.
I wanted to make a donation, but clicking on donate button doesn't lead to anywhere useful.

My computer consists of a GTX 1080 Ti so I didn't even try without the NVENC option enabled. Lag is best at ~7mbps, at 10+ it starts to become noticable, and at 15+ it doesn't even work anymore, but I guess that's the ZTE H367N from 2014 to blame, it doesn't even have a 5GHz wireless band as far as I remember. Overall, there are a few audio desyncs and some image pixellation sometimes, but it's not this app's fault.

Next thing I tried was PS Remote Play streaming to my computer and then skyNX streaming to Switch. It worked surprisingly well! That amazed me more! Now, if only we could somehow make the joycons act as a DS4 input to PS Remote Play software on computer, it would be absolutely amazing. Because right now I need a looong cable to connect the DS4 to my computer's USB port in order for game input to work, Switch acts only as a mobile screen.

PS: I'm running SX OS, it installed normally and works like a charm. Just needed to enable WIFI with the 90DNS settings. Only real issue is the black screen when Switch coming out of sleep as already mentioned. Solved by restart.
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Next thing I tried was PS Remote Play streaming to my computer and then skyNX streaming to Switch. It worked surprisingly well! That amazed me more! Now, if only we could somehow make the joycons act as a DS4 input to PS Remote Play software on computer, it would be absolutely amazing. Because right now I need a looong cable to connect the DS4 to my computer's USB port in order for game input to work, Switch acts only as a mobile screen.

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I found a way to fix this. If you follow the instructions in this link
https://www.reddit.com/r/remoteplay...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Since SkyNX app makes the switch joy cons appear as Xbox 360 controller on your pc this lets you basically emulate that 360 controller as a virtual DS4. Basically if you follow the steps here you can use your joy cons to control ps4 remote play when it’s streamed to your switch.
 

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Just tried it and it works! It's amazing! Only the PS button isn't mapped anywhere, so I can't actually close the software that runs on the PS4.
(sorry, can't quote you, new member here).
 
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Thank you very much for this app, it works great!!! I am using SXOS 2.9.5
The only 'bugs' I have noticed during my tests:
- if I open another program in the computer where I need Admin rights the image stream is lost (the ip screen is shown in the switch) , but the sound is still transmitted correctly.
- Audio not 100% accurate when docked
- I don't get 60 fps in my switch screen (even if the program says 60fps). Also in the tutorial you can see it is much more smooth in the computer than in switch. What I can say is there is no lag at all at Quality 10
Anyway this app is much better than I thought it was going to be
Thanks again
 

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A few thoughts that may or may not have been mentioned:

Extreme distortion seems to dependent on sound card/audio driver. I got horrible constant distortion with my PCIE Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium as the default sound driver, but only occasional pops when using NVidia's driver for output to the monitor. Those pops also seemed to decrease at lower bitrates, suggesting this has something to do with the streaming load. I have also noticed this same problem with sound card/drivers to a lesser degree when using the official PS4 remote play app.

The Nvidia encoding seems to be missing whatever the equivalent of "frameskip" is. Launching Soul Calibur VI, things are mostly synced up until the start of a match, where there's some stress encoding/decoding all the video motion and the effective framerate on the Switch is well below 60. Instead of just getting choppy it seems like time actually slows down on the Switch and you get more and more out of sync to the point of being unplayable.
 

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Love it it's great. I may need a better router though. Good job!

One issue though, on docked mode, I am hearing a crackling sound from the audio. Is this the case for everyone? I can still hear the game's sounds but it's crackling unfortunately.
 

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Wow amazing app thank you so much , works really well with games however when I put emulators in full screen I just get a blank box View attachment 207337
use full screen borderless and make sure the game is at the right resolution

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Love it it's great. I may need a better router though. Good job!

One issue though, on docked mode, I am hearing a crackling sound from the audio. Is this the case for everyone? I can still hear the game's sounds but it's crackling unfortunately.
yeah some issue with docked mode i have not found a fix for yet

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A few thoughts that may or may not have been mentioned:

Extreme distortion seems to dependent on sound card/audio driver. I got horrible constant distortion with my PCIE Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium as the default sound driver, but only occasional pops when using NVidia's driver for output to the monitor. Those pops also seemed to decrease at lower bitrates, suggesting this has something to do with the streaming load. I have also noticed this same problem with sound card/drivers to a lesser degree when using the official PS4 remote play app.

The Nvidia encoding seems to be missing whatever the equivalent of "frameskip" is. Launching Soul Calibur VI, things are mostly synced up until the start of a match, where there's some stress encoding/decoding all the video motion and the effective framerate on the Switch is well below 60. Instead of just getting choppy it seems like time actually slows down on the Switch and you get more and more out of sync to the point of being unplayable.
yeah my next update is going to fix the weird gpu encoding issues
 

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Try disabling the set resolution to 720p when starting the stream feature and manually set your resolution through the display settings before starting the streamer app that fixed this for me
Thank you yes that worked perfectly after disabling the set resolution

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@DevL0rd actually the fix for emulator was to disable the automatic set resolution , can you look into that. Everything works amazing once set resolution is disabled but it’s a bit anoying to keep switching desktop resolutions when the program is not being used .. But thank you for this great app .
 
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Hey DevL0rd,

I would first thank you so much for this great app,

Could you please have a look to the following issue which occurs only for win 10 UWP apps / games, I tried xbox app companion, Rise of the tomb raider, Gears 4, Recore, for all of them the up & down for both analogs are stuck to some value even if I release them, I tried Game Controller Tester and confirms this, it stops only if I push another button / direction like the value of the analog is reseted by this way, I calibrated the controller with Win 10 utility but no luck, I cross checked ps4 remote play / steam & emulators and this problem doesn't happen.

I tried to solve this from my side but no luck, if you can check or give a workaround on keeping the switch controller working but desactivating the analog values to use another way (Glosc as a second controller which by the way doesn't create this analog stuck) you will be a life saver.

Thx in advance.

Klinux
 
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Hey DevL0rd,

I would first thank you so much for this great app,

Could you please have a look to the following issue which occurs only for win 10 UWP apps / games, I tried xbox app companion, Rise of the tomb raider, Gears 4, Recore, for all of them the up & down for both analogs are stuck to some value even if I release them, I tried Game Controller Tester and confirms this, it stops only if I push another button / direction like the value of the analog is reseted by this way, I calibrated the controller with Win 10 utility but no luck, I cross checked ps4 remote play / steam & emulators and this problem doesn't happen.

I tried to solve this from my side but no luck, if you can check or give a workaround on keeping the switch controller working but desactivating the analog values to use another way (Glosc as a second controller which by the way doesn't create this analog stuck) you will be a life saver.

Thx in advance.

Klinux
what version of the app and streamer are you on?
 

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Just tried it and it works! It's amazing! Only the PS button isn't mapped anywhere, so I can't actually close the software that runs on the PS4.
(sorry, can't quote you, new member here).
If you touch/swipe your finger on the switches screen with SkyNX on mouse control on analog it basically emulates moving the mouse which brings up the ps remote play buttons and on there is a ps button which you can press and it works the same as your ds4 ps button.
 

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Thank you yes that worked perfectly after disabling the set resolution

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@DevL0rd actually the fix for emulator was to disable the automatic set resolution , can you look into that. Everything works amazing once set resolution is disabled but it’s a bit anoying to keep switching desktop resolutions when the program is not being used .. But thank you for this great app .

I’m getting a very similar issue to you when using the dolphin full screen feature. Video just stops and I’m given two rectangles like you had with whatever was playing before.

Disabling the auto set resolution didn’t change anything for me unfortunately. Was there a specific order you went through?
 

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