Set up your PC
Moymo Link lives in Moymo for Windows. Make sure the program is 0.22 or newer (Settings has Check for updates) and that it is paired to your account.
The Moymo Link card
The cast icon in the header, beside the bell, opens the Moymo Link card.
- Nothing linked yet? The card shows a setup screen that walks you through linking a television or phone.
- Otherwise it shows a status line and the controls:
| Control | |
|---|---|
| Screen or window | A live picker of your screens and windows, with thumbnails refreshed every couple of seconds. Choose a window to show just a game (and only that game's sound), or a screen to show everything. |
| Start / Stop | A green Start switches Link on: the PC now tells Moymo it can be reached. A red Stop switches it off. |
| Sound | A button that turns the sound on or off. When it is off the program sends silence. |
| Controller | What the television's controller does: play games (a virtual Xbox pad), or move the pointer. |
The header icon turns green only while a stream is really running, so a green icon always means someone is watching.
Allow the firewall
The first time Link starts listening, Windows Firewall asks whether to allow Moymo on your network. Allow it on Private (and on Public if your home network is marked Public). Without that, the television can find your PC but cannot connect.
The program listens on port 47770 on your home network, and only answers devices on private addresses. It does not open anything to the internet.
How your PC is found
While Link is on, your PC tells Moymo every half minute where it can be reached: its home-network addresses, the port, and what encodes the video. Only private addresses are kept. Your television asks Moymo for the list, so you never type an IP address.
What encodes the picture
The program uses ffmpeg (the same component as the clip recorder, downloaded once) with your graphics card's own encoder, as H.264 (the profile every television supports), with a keyframe every two seconds. Nothing is downloaded for the encoders themselves: they are in your graphics driver.
Controllers
The controller on the television plays games through a virtual Xbox pad (ViGEm). That needs a small Windows driver, ViGEmBus, which the program offers to download; installing it needs administrator rights, once. Without it, a controller can only move the pointer.
On the television, holding Back and Start for a second switches the controller between play and pointer, and the television tells you which.
Stopping
Press Stop on the card, or stop it from your phone or the television. Closing the program also stops it.