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    • jasonwJ
      jasonw @Swampy
      last edited by

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

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      • SwampyS
        Swampy
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        @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.

        Linux is like wigwam: no Gates, no Windows and Apache inside.

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        • jasonwJ
          jasonw @Swampy
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          @Swampy Windows 10.

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            Purduecoz
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            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

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            • thezoofT
              thezoof @psyke83
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              @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.

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

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                  psyke83 Global Moderator
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                  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).

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                    ralh
                    last edited by ralh

                    I just installed steamlink and if I try to run it from Ports I get a black screen for a moment and then I'm back on the Ports screen.

                    cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log:

                    Executing: xinit /opt/retropie/ports/steamlink/steamlink_xinit.sh -- vt1 -keeptty
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1007: xinit: command not found

                    Any idea what I should do?

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                      psyke83 Global Moderator
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                      @ralh said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

                      I just installed steamlink and if I try to run it from Ports I get a black screen for a moment and then I'm back on the Ports screen.

                      cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log:

                      Executing: xinit /opt/retropie/ports/steamlink/steamlink_xinit.sh -- vt1 -keeptty
/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1007: xinit: command not found

                      Any idea what I should do?

                      Hmm... you need the xorgpackage. I'll add that to the depends of the scriptmodule later, but you don't need to wait - just manually install it yourself.

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                        ralh
                        last edited by

                        Sorry, I'm a bit of a RetroPie noob and didn't realize it didn't use X at first.

                        After installing xorg and changing /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to say allowed_users=anybody everything works.

                        Thanks for help!

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                          psyke83 Global Moderator @ralh
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                          @ralh said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

                          Sorry, I'm a bit of a RetroPie noob and didn't realize it didn't use X at first.

                          After installing xorg and changing /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to say allowed_users=anybody everything works.

                          Thanks for help!

                          Thanks for the update. IIRC, the RetroPie script usually removes xserver-xorg-legacy as an alternate to having to edit that file.

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                            PureSmoke @psyke83
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                            @psyke83 I'm on Retropie 4.4.4 and SteamLink doesn't load for me. I get a black screen with just a cursor (which I can move with the Dualshock 4 trackpad). My /boot/config.txt is actually empty, so I don't even have the option to comment out the scanlines option. How do I fix this?

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                            • BazB
                              Baz
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                              I think I broke it. Installed it fine and entered the code on my OC to connect but then had the bright idea to configure my controller. However it had already recognised it was a OS4 pad and really I didn’t need to do anything! I completely messed up the button mapping and now no button works except d-pad doen which quits steamlink. 😭 I have tried uninstalling, restarting system and reinstalling but every time it remembers my dodgy controller configuration. Really I think I need to uninstall steamlink, restart system and FTP in and delete all traces of steamlink, restart system again and then install it fresh. I tried this once but clearly didn’t get every trace. If anyone can help me solve this (without a completely fresh installation of retropie!) I’d be very grateful. Where do I need to look for steamlink configs and stuff?

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                                hhromic @Baz
                                last edited by hhromic

                                @Baz after uninstalling (and before reinstalling), try deleting the following directories:

                                $HOME/.local/share/SteamLink
$HOME/.local/share/Valve Corporation

                                Also check in your $HOME/.config and $HOME/.cache directories for any traces of steam link.

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                                  RetroAK
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                                  Has this been pulled?
                                  I'm running 4.4.4, made sure my retropie_setup script is up to date by running an update just now, yet I'm not seeing "steamlink" in the experimental extentions.
                                  I recently joined the retropie community and setup my rom machine just a couple weeks ago. Can't imagine why I'm not seeing this listed... would love to have this integrated in emulationstation.

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @RetroAK
                                    last edited by

                                    @RetroAK Yes, it's been integrated for some time - are you running a RPI 3 ?

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                                      RetroAK @mitu
                                      last edited by RetroAK

                                      @mitu I'm not running any form of pie hardware. I installed on top of a lubuntu install using a micro PC I've had around as a previous HTPC. Can post hardware specs and OS details in a little bit.
                                      Should it still be found under experimental?

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                                      • mituM
                                        mitu Global Moderator @RetroAK
                                        last edited by

                                        @RetroAK Steamlink is only available for the PI3 - that's how Valve released the package.

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                                          RetroAK @mitu
                                          last edited by

                                          @mitu Ah, well crud. That would explain it. All my searching and I missed that simple detail. Thanks much, I'll press on researching other options.

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                                            RetroAK @mitu
                                            last edited by

                                            @mitu unless, of course, you know the right direction to point me for integrating steam streaming with retropie on non-pie builds. I'm guessing it has to do with Moonlight?
                                            I'd honestly be happy to just add a launch shortcut in my menu of emulators that just opens the desktop steam app

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