SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released

mitu · 4 Feb 2019, 05:33

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

RetroAK · 4 Feb 2019, 05:34

@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.

RetroAK · 4 Feb 2019, 05:45

@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

RetroAK · 2 Apr 2019, 07:05

So, this may not be the proper place, but if anyone ends up here wanting a simple solution for steam being integrated in your emulationstation and you're NOT on Pi hardware, this works great and I thought I'd add it here to save you some time.

Install Steam, then add this under <systemslist> in:
etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

  <system>
    <name>steam</name>
    <fullname>Steam</fullname>
    <path>/home/steve/RetroPie/roms/steam</path>
    <extension>.jpg</extention>
    <command>steam -bigpicture</command>
    <platform>steam</platform>
    <theme>steam</theme>
  </system>

Create a "steam" folder in your RetroPie/roms directory and plop a jpg in there.
Simple as that. Any theme that already has eye candy for Steam in your menu knows what to do. Exiting Steam brings you back to emulationstation.
You could install Steam games on the machine you're using for RetroPie or just stream from your main desktop gaming rig with Steam streaming--already a part of the full desktop app.

mitu · 4 Feb 2019, 07:04

@RetroAK I guess you can use Moonlight (it's available also in the experimental packages) if your main PC has an Nvidia video card which support it.

hhromic · 2 Apr 2019, 11:06

@mitu
Moonlight is not yet available officially in the RetroPie experimental section, I hope to submit it as soon as I finish some last polishing that I have in mind.

However, moonlight-embedded (the version I'm using in that scriptmodule) is also only available for RPI devices (and potentially other SBCs, just not x86). For a full desktop environment the right one to use should be moonlight-qt:

https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt

Venturegirl · 7 Feb 2019, 03:28

@Purduecoz I'm having the same problem, the day I installed steamlink it worked from Emulation station but now it won't, only from the shell.

Darksavior · 17 Feb 2019, 04:33

I had to uninstall xorg and install the legacy version to get this working. I'll say, I'm rather impressed. I tried some version of the steam link app I had to manually install a few months ago and it was just absolute garbage. It couldn't get a good signal despite my pi being next to the router, even then, the skipping made it annoying to use. It wouldn't see my pad either. All's been resolved with this. It's great. I fired up Cuphead np.

Darksavior · 19 Feb 2019, 02:01

Looks like entering retropie-setup removes the xorg legacy package. Is there a way to get it working with the latest xorg package? I was getting permission problems with that one.
Fatal server error: (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 2 (Permission denied)

psyke83 · 19 Feb 2019, 03:34

@Darksavior said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

Looks like entering retropie-setup removes the xorg legacy package. Is there a way to get it working with the latest xorg package? I was getting permission problems with that one.
Fatal server error: (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 2 (Permission denied)

Xorg and steamlink should be working correctly without the legacy package (which needs to be removed due to permission issues with Xorg.wrap). I think we'll need more details than a single line to troubleshoot your issue.

Darksavior · 19 Feb 2019, 04:47

@psyke83 AH, nevermind. Fixed it. Removed xorg and all its dependencies and reinstalled it all. Works now. No idea why it had permission problems in the first place. I'm using the official image.

Darksavior · 19 Feb 2019, 12:23

@psyke83 In reinstalling the xorg package, it was also reinstalling the legacy stuff so then my problem restarted. So now I've uninstalled xorg, auto removed the remaining unused packages, and uninstalled the steamlink app. I then reinstalled the steamlink app and let that install the dependencies. Same permission problem. Here's the log.
https://pastebin.com/B0x2qCig
Legacy was working fine because I edited /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and added allowed_users=anybody but that only exists for the legacy version?

psyke83 · 19 Feb 2019, 14:19

@Darksavior said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

@psyke83 In reinstalling the xorg package, it was also reinstalling the legacy stuff so then my problem restarted. So now I've uninstalled xorg, auto removed the remaining unused packages, and uninstalled the steamlink app. I then reinstalled the steamlink app and let that install the dependencies. Same permission problem. Here's the log.
https://pastebin.com/B0x2qCig
Legacy was working fine because I edited /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and added allowed_users=anybody but that only exists for the legacy version?

I'm seeing some oddities in your Xorg log. Did you enable the experimental GL (fake/full KMS) driver?

Can you show a more complete list of xorg-related packages you have installed? Mine, for reference:

dpkg -l | grep xorg
ii  xorg                                  1:7.7+19                            armhf        X.Org X Window System
ii  xorg-docs-core                        1:1.7.1-1                           all          Core documentation for the X.org X Window System
ii  xorg-sgml-doctools                    1:1.11-1                            all          Common tools for building X.Org SGML documentation
ii  xserver-xorg                          1:7.7+19                            armhf        X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core                     2:1.19.2-1+rpt1+deb9u2              armhf        Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all                1:7.7+19                            armhf        X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xorg-input-libinput           0.23.0-2                            armhf        X.Org X server -- libinput input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom              0.34.0-1                            armhf        X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver
rc  xserver-xorg-legacy                   2:1.19.2-1+rpt1+deb9u2              armhf        setuid root Xorg server wrapper
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all                1:7.7+19                            armhf        X.Org X server -- output driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu             1.2.0-1+b1                          armhf        X.Org X server -- AMDGPU display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati                1:7.8.0-1+b1                        armhf        X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver wrapper
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev              1:0.4.4-1+rvt+b1                    armhf        X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbturbo            1.20170324~143242                   armhf        X.Org X server -- fbturbo display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau            1:1.0.13-3                          armhf        X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon             1:7.8.0-1+b1                        armhf        X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa               1:2.3.4-1+b3                        armhf        X.Org X server -- VESA display driver

Darksavior · 19 Feb 2019, 14:27

@psyke83 I installed the complete xorg package (which turned out to be the legacy one) at one time but never enabled GL. The only xorg stuff I have installed now are through whatever the steamlink app installs.

ii  xorg                                 1:7.7+19                          armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X Window System
ii  xorg-docs-core                       1:1.7.1-1                         all                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Core documentation for the X.org X Window System
ii  xorg-sgml-doctools                   1:1.11-1                          all                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Common tools for building X.Org SGML documentation
ii  xserver-xorg                         1:7.7+19                          armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core                    2:1.19.2-1+rpt1+deb9u2            armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all               1:7.7+19                          armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xorg-input-libinput          0.23.0-2                          armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- libinput input driver
rc  xserver-xorg-legacy                  2:1.19.2-1+rpt1+deb9u2            armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     setuid root Xorg server wrapper
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all               1:7.7+19                          armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- output driver metapackage
ii  xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu            1.2.0-1+b1                        armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- AMDGPU display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati               1:7.8.0-1+b1                      armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver wrapper
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev             1:0.4.4-1+rvt+b1                  armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau           1:1.0.13-3                        armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon            1:7.8.0-1+b1                      armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa              1:2.3.4-1+b3                      armhf                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     X.Org X server -- VESA display driver

Darksavior · 20 Feb 2019, 01:19

Problem solved for real. Not sure what it was since I got sick of changing permissions for xorg-related folders with no results. I changed the dev folder's permission and everything in it and that did it.

Swampy · 30 Mar 2019, 16:47

SteamLink was updated to 1.1.30:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/6/3362406825533076063/
Will it be updated in RetroPie too?

mitu · 30 Mar 2019, 17:05

@Swampy steamlink is installed from the Raspbian repositories, so whenever the update is released on their repositories, it will be available for update in RetroPie also.

psyke83 · 30 Mar 2019, 17:16

@mitu said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

@Swampy steamlink is installed from the Raspbian repositories, so whenever the update is released on their repositories, it will be available for update in RetroPie also.

You're right - keeping in mind that, similar to the Linux .deb for steam, the package functions only as a bootstrapper to fetch the latest release during launch.

Unfortunately, the bootstrapper also handles dependency resolution which usually requires user input to confirm via command-line when new packages are to be installed; the effect would be that you'd be stuck on the runcommand dialog.

The new release doesn't seem to have this problem, but it can potentially happen in future. If/when it does, I'll add the dependencies to the scriptmodule.

r3ddvil · 21 Apr 2019, 15:30

@thezoof Hi, having the same issue, I am pretty newb when it comes to Rpi script editing , but I added "steamlink" and "streaming_client" to the list of emulators in the music.py, and have reset the system and disabled/enabled audio and no luck for me. How do I rerun the script? Thanks.

backstander · 22 Apr 2019, 15:59

@r3ddvil

I added "steamlink" and "streaming_client" to the list of emulators in the music.py

I think it's just called "steam"