SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released

CoreyPL

Hey.
Version on steam forums was updated to 1.07. New build is supposed to help with blackscreen problems. There was also a suggestion from a package creator that earlier version users should change the GPU choice on Steam application. When having both Intel iGPU and NVIDIA GPU on your PC, steam app does weird things on encoding side when all GPUs are active in options. Suggestion was to set only NVIDIA GPU in the streaming advanced host options.

psyke83

Thanks for the report, folks. I've updated the script for 1.0.7

@thezoof said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

Hey all. I was able to add steamlink as instructed via experimental package. I updated the overscan as instructed but I am still getting a black screen.

I notice that in the runcommand.log I am seeing this:

Executing: /usr/bin/steamlink
Steam needs to install these additional packages:
libgudev-1.0-0:armhf, libinput10:armhf, libmtdev1:armhf, libwacom2:armhf, libxcb-xkb1:armhf, libxkbcommon-x11-0:armhf
..Package libgudev-1.0-0:armhf needs to be installed
Package libinput10:armhf needs to be installed
Package libmtdev1:armhf needs to be installed
Package libwacom2:armhf needs to be installed
Package libxcb-xkb1:armhf needs to be installed
Package libxkbcommon-x11-0:armhf needs to be installed
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "eglfs"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Any ideas how to proceed?

I've added those missing dependencies to our script to avoid this issue. I can't guarantee that new dependencies won't be added in future versions, however.

thezoof

That is great work.

Another question - I like having background music on my emulation station. When I use steamlink - the music remains on. Is there a setting or something I can do to turn it off only when I load steamlink?

Thanks.

psyke83

@thezoof said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

That is great work.

Another question - I like having background music on my emulation station. When I use steamlink - the music remains on. Is there a setting or something I can do to turn it off only when I load steamlink?

Thanks.

I'll take a look when I have some free time. Does this happen when launching other ports?

mitu

@thezoof That's up to the BGM script you're using, most likely you'll have to add the steamlink executable to the list of 'emulators' it understands, so it will fade/stop the music after starting steamlink.

hhromic

Looks like the Foundation added SteamLink to Raspbian officially now:
https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/s/steamlink/

You don't need to manually download and install the deb anymore, just do apt-get install steamlink after updating the APT cache.

@psyke83 maybe the scriptmodule can be simplified with this now :)

LineOf7s

@LineOf7s said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

So far it seems to work great, but using a standard wired Xbox 360 controller (userspace driver, apparently) the default mapping is... odd. Like, the left and right triggers are Select (aka Back) and Start respectively (among other things).

Remapping the controller in Steam Link seems to complete successfully, but Testing Controller immediately after shows that it doesn't "take".

Doing some research now to see if I can find a config file somewhere I need to tweak, but I thought I'd provide the data point in the meantime.

For those playing along at home, I uninstalled the xboxdrv and xpad drivers (which I don't seem to need when using wired Xbox 360 controllers) and my Steamlink mapping issues went away. I tried updating to 1.07 first but that didn't make a difference.

psyke83

@hhromic said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

Looks like the Foundation added SteamLink to Raspbian officially now:
https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/s/steamlink/

You don't need to manually download and install the deb anymore, just do apt-get install steamlink after updating the APT cache.

@psyke83 maybe the scriptmodule can be simplified with this now :)

Thanks. I'll hold off on updating the module at least until the next version bump (in case there's other reports or missing dependencies with future builds that also need to be addressed).

The .ignore_overscan override is gone, but there's now an .ignore_kms in its place. Not much significance for end-users, but it's interesting to see if Valve intends to have KMS compatibility at some point in the future.

thezoof

@mitu said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

BGM script

@psyke83

It seems I was wrong. Modifying the music.py didn't do anything - it was a false positive.

I added "steamlink" and "SteamLink", loaded the script again via turning off and turning on background music - no change after reboot.

psyke83

@thezoof said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

@psyke83

It seems I was wrong. Modifying the music.py didn't do anything - it was a false positive.

I added "steamlink" and "SteamLink", loaded the script again via turning off and turning on background music - no change after reboot.

I've never used the bgm script, so I'm not too familiar with it - but steamlink may not be correct, as it's actually a shell script. When you launch steamlink:

ps aux | grep steamlink
pi       10081  0.4  0.3   4640  2644 pts/1    S+   19:28   0:00 /bin/bash /home/pi/.local/share/SteamLink/steamlink.sh

Depending on how it whitelists processes, it may be necessary to specify the .sh extension or the full path. Additionally, once you start streaming, the script will launch a binary named streaming_client, so you may need to add that as well.

WonderBoy

I set up Steam Link a couple of days ago and it worked great. I really am impressed with how quickly it was added to RetroPie.

Today though, I can't use it, as I get thrown straight back to EmulationStation when I try to connect to my remote Steam computer. I did seem to download a Steam Link update when launched, which may be what has broken it. This is what's in /dev/shm/runcommand.log

Parameters: 
Executing: /usr/bin/steamlink
Unable to query physical screen size, defaulting to 100 dpi.
To override, set QT_QPA_EGLFS_PHYSICAL_WIDTH and QT_QPA_EGLFS_PHYSICAL_HEIGHT (in millimeters).
Steam Link UI coordinate scale = 0.8
Added controller with mapping 060000004c0500006802000000010000,PS3 Controller,a:b14,b:b13,back:b0,dpdown:b6,dpleft:b7,dpright:b5,dpup:b4,guide:b16,leftshoulder:b10,leftstick:b1,lefttrigger:b8,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b11,rightstick:b2,righttrigger:b9,rightx:a2,righty:a3,start:b3,x:b15,y:b12,
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

Anyone else seeing this?

jasonw

So I agree that xbox 360 controller definitely does not work correctly, that needs to be fixed. Also one other thing I noticed is I wasn't able to enable 5.1 surround sound. When I did, no sound came out (Stereo works fine). Thoughts?

Swampy

Hello @jasonw,

what is your host operating system?
My is a Ubuntu 18.04 and I had the same problem with my xbox 360 controller(wired).
I fixed it with installing steam-devices on host:

sudo apt install steam-devices

jasonw

@Swampy I’m running retropie 4.4.4 on a 3B+. I’ll give your suggestion a try this weekend, thanks!

Swampy

@jasonw said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

@Swampy I’m running retropie 4.4.4 on a 3B+. I’ll give your suggestion a try this weekend, thanks!

I mean the operating system of the host-pc.

jasonw

@Swampy Windows 10.

Purduecoz

Any idea what might cause steamlink to not show up in emulation station after the experimental binary has been installed? Dropping to the shell and running steamlink works just fine. It simple doesn’t show up in my emulation station list.

Running latest version of retropie.

Thanks

thezoof

@psyke83 said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

@thezoof said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

@psyke83

It seems I was wrong. Modifying the music.py didn't do anything - it was a false positive.

I added "steamlink" and "SteamLink", loaded the script again via turning off and turning on background music - no change after reboot.

I've never used the bgm script, so I'm not too familiar with it - but steamlink may not be correct, as it's actually a shell script. When you launch steamlink:
ps aux | grep steamlink
pi       10081  0.4  0.3   4640  2644 pts/1    S+   19:28   0:00 /bin/bash /home/pi/.local/share/SteamLink/steamlink.sh
Depending on how it whitelists processes, it may be necessary to specify the .sh extension or the full path. Additionally, once you start streaming, the script will launch a binary named streaming_client, so you may need to add that as well.

Unfortunately music is always playing. I tried all combinations here. Script seems simple yet it is ignored with steam being loaded.

thezoof

Got it to work. I had to re-run the script - duh!

psyke83

I updated the scriptmodule recently to fix a controller mapping issue with sixaxis controllers; steamlink is now configured to run in an Xorg session to prevent the controller's left analog sticks being erroneously used as a virtual mouse, causing in-game conflicts.

It might be worth updating & re-installing from the latest version of the scriptmodule if you're having controller issues of any type (cc: @LineOf7s, @jasonw).