Parsec AMIs seems to not support server-key anymore

[NitriKx]

I've ask the Parsec support if this feature has been deprecated.

server-key is a way to register a parsec server to an account without doing to authentication process (email/password/otp). So a workaround for the moment is to use the VNC client to login in the Parsec app on the EC2 instances.

[NitriKx]

As far as I've understand, Parsec is slowly disabling the self-hosting on AWS. The URL https://parsecgaming.com/server-key is not accessible anymore.
We may be forced to change the streaming technology and I was thinking to use https://github.com/moonlight-stream/.

[chmanie]

Would steam-link work as well?

[NitriKx]

I don’t think so, but the NVIDIA shield should.

[AlecRosenbaum]

Does Gamestream work from AWS instances? From when I googled I only saw hacks to make Gamestream work on AWS (by manually patching/disabling updating for the nvidia software). From what I can tell, moonstream is only the client side so it relies on nvidia's software to actually provide the server-side gamestream.

Is my understanding wrong here?

[NitriKx]

No you’re totally right, but I haven’t got the time to test this on AWS.
This guy seems to have done to major part of the work: https://github.com/david-cao/pi-stream (only for g2.2xlarge but it should only be a matter of deviceid).

[NitriKx]

For the AMI building I plan to use the following repositories as a base:

• https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Parsec-Cloud-Preparation-Tool (include the steps described in david-cao/pi-stream)
• https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Cloud-GPU-Updater

If some of you have ideas, I've created a dedicated repository for the AMI factory: https://github.com/cloudrig/CloudRIG-AWS-AMI

[chmanie]

Would steam-link work as well?

Sorry, I meant Steam Remote Play. I got it working in the end using tips from this article:

https://support.parsecgaming.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002701631-Required-Dependencies-To-Set-Up-Your-Own-Cloud-Gaming-PC-Without-Parsec-Templates

Especially the lock-screen thing is annoying (I used the script described in there). Then you still have to RDP into the machine and run the script every time. Well, I don't know whether there's a way around that (or whether a script could do that automatically somehow).

Sadly the performance isn't as good as I hoped for. Sometimes it's good but often the games are stuttering. I'll investigate more.

[NitriKx]

I’ve always received bad feedback about Remote Play.
NVIDIA GE will significantly improve the streaming performances + allow people to play directly form Google Chrome.
The real challenge with it is to make the pairing easy with the instance.
Does anyone have tested it already ?

[6uhrmittag]

If some of you have ideas, I've created a dedicated repository for the AMI factory: https://github.com/cloudrig/CloudRIG-AWS-AMI

I don't think I have time to try it - but in case you're interested in building custom AMI's, I think Packer could be usefull: https://www.packer.io/intro/getting-started/build-image.html
I've only build one virtualbox image with packer, but it worked great. The linked guide looks promising - they even show how to customize existing windows AMIs.

I guess most of the required pre-setup is possible with Powershell or AutoIt.

[NitriKx]

I've started to develop something using SSM Automation (using a simplified version of https://github.com/miztiik/AWS-Demos/tree/master/How-To/setup-ami-lifecycle-management-using-ssm)

[NitriKx]

As the parsec AMIs are not maintained I've started to build CloudRIG dedicated AMIs (https://github.com/cloudrig/CloudRIG-AWS-AMI).
Those are not using Parsec anymore but Rainway which is open source and seems to have a wider client panel. Therefore they are more opened to collaboration (as Parsec changes its business model and customer target).