Earlier this year, Valve started to shift its focus away from Steam Machines, and now that the Steam Link has been discontinued, Steam's hardware tab only hosts pages for the HTC VIVE – a virtual reality headset which Valve helped produce – and the Steam Controller. We're still not entirely sure why Valve discontinued the Steam Link, but it seems to be part of a larger turn away from hardware in general. Keep in mind that this is only a beta for now, so you might encounter some bugs as you play. The first time you run it, the full app will be installed and a desktop shortcut will be created. Install Steam on your PC, and then launch it and log in to your account.

Once you've done that, you'll be able to launch the app either from the Games menu or by simply running 'steamlink' from a command line. To install the app, Valve says you need to run the following text from a command line: Now, as I’ve understood it OSMC/Kodi needs vc4-kms-v3d to run, but what puzzles me is that others have seemed to get OSMC (with Kodi 19).More specifically, Steam Link is available on Raspberry Pi 3 and 3B+ systems running Raspbian Stretch. Then I installed Raspbian Buster on another SD card and managed to stream 1080p over Steam Link perfectly fine with a system resolution of 2160p on that system, but only once I’d commented out dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d in its config.txt. Tried hardware and software rendering etc. The Steam Link app extends Steam Link functionality to the Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+, running Raspbian Stretch. I dabbled in trying to limit the resolution of both Pi, Steam host, Steam client and the Steam stream itself to no avail. The Steam Link App is now available free of charge for the Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ running Raspbian Stretch, Valve’s statement reads. Steam Link’s detailed statistics indicated that the stream was definitely being received though, and the Steam host audio being audible on the client confirmed this.Īt first I thought it was problem of client resolution, since the Steam Link client defaulted to the highest possible resolution (2160p) even if setting OSMC to 1080p. Installing Steam Link via swetoast’s Steam Link Launcher worked well too… but once setup the video stream from the host Steam machine is pitch black. (Thanks or all the hard work that goes into making this happen!) Everything is smooth and works well with my 4K projector. I recently upgraded my OSMC setup from a Pi 3+ to a Pi 4.

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