service

Service

Windows

If you installed sunshine through the installer:

Press WIN+R, then type services.msc and hit enter.

Scroll down until you find SunshineService.

If you found it, make sure it is running and set to start automatically.

If you can't find it, go to C:\Program Files\Sunshine\scripts and run install-service.bat as admin (right click).

Linux

Check if the service is running:

systemctl status sunshine

If it is not running, start it:

systemctl --user start sunshine

If you want to enable it to start on boot, run:

systemctl --user enable sunshine

If you want to disable the service, run:

systemctl --user disable sunshine

Homebrew

If you installed sunshine through Homebrew, you can check the status of the service with:

brew services list

If you want to enable it to start on boot, run:

brew services start sunshine

If you want to enable it to run on user login, run:

brew services run sunshine

If you want to disable the service, run:

brew services stop sunshine

For more information see our getting started docs