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