Couch Stream Kit — Stream your PC to any TV with a Raspberry Pi

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Play your gaming PC on the living-room TV — full video, audio, and controller/keyboard input over your home network. No capture card, no subscription, no moving the PC. The streaming itself is powered by Sunshine + Moonlight, two excellent free open-source projects. What they don't ship is the part that eats your weekend: making it all work on a Raspberry Pi 5 (whose display pipeline breaks the standard instructions), surviving disconnects without walking to the TV, and booting straight into the stream like an appliance. That's what this kit is: • A step-by-step illustrated guide — PC side, Pi side, and the Pi 5 "secret sauce" display recipe • Boot-to-stream setup: power outlet → 30 seconds → your PC on the TV • An auto-reconnect watchdog so dropped streams heal themselves in ~20s • Couch-control scripts: check/restart/stop the stream from another computer with a double-click • A troubleshooting table of every failure I actually hit, each with its fix (black-screen portrait bug, silent NVENC fallback, bootloader USB hang, and more) Roughly $80 of hardware (Pi 5 + cables) gets you a dedicated streaming box. Free because the software it builds on is free — if it saves your weekend, go build something and sell it here.