Punktfunk streams your PC to the TV: through an Apple TV, an Android TV or Google TV, a Steam Deck in its dock, or a spare PC under the telly. Pick up your controller and play from the couch while your PC stays in the other room.
DualSense, DualShock 4, Xbox, Switch Pro and the Steam Deck's controls all work, and where it can the host hands your game a matching virtual pad, so the button prompts fit. Rumble comes back to your hands. On the desktop and Apple clients a DualSense keeps its adaptive triggers, light bar, touchpad and motion. Plug it in by USB on the Linux, Windows or Android client and even its speaker and haptics come through.
The console view is made for a controller. It shows your games with their covers, from Steam, Epic, GOG, Playnite, Heroic, Lutris and more through plugins. Pick one and it starts straight into the stream. The client wakes a sleeping PC over Wake-on-LAN, and can send it back to sleep when you're done.
HDR10 comes from Windows hosts and from gamescope on Linux, to TVs that can show it. Android TV plays at the TV's own resolution and switches its refresh rate to match the stream; Apple TV goes up to 4K. Sound arrives in stereo, 5.1 or 7.1.
Several people can stream from one PC at once, each to their own screen with their own virtual display. For couch co-op, a friend joins the same game from their own device and plays as Player 2. Every controller keeps its own slot.
Punktfunk runs on the PC you already own, so the games you bought play wherever you are. It's free, open source and self-hosted: no account, no cloud.
The Apple app, in TestFlight beta, on tvOS 17 or newer. Up to 4K, HDR10 with Match Content turned on, 5.1 and 7.1, and the full DualSense.
From Google Play or as an APK, on Android 9 or newer, cheap 32-bit boxes included. Native resolution with matched refresh, and HDR10 where the panel has it.
A Decky plugin you install from a link. It opens the client in Gaming Mode and forwards the Deck's own controls.
The Linux and Windows clients add a Punktfunk Console launcher: the same controller view, full screen.
A community client, not from LG's store: you sideload it in Developer Mode through the Homebrew Channel.
Moonlight clients can connect once you turn compatibility on, meant for your own network. They get your library and Resume, without motion, touchpad or trigger effects.
There's no app for Samsung TVs yet.