Well, it’s 2020 and since many of us are staying home lately, so we figured it would be nice to remind you all that this streaming service is still available. The result of Simon’s experiment was positive: he reported that setting up Steam Link was easy, and the final product was a simple and affordable means of playing PC games on his TV, away from his PC in another room. Originally produced as a stand-alone box in 2018, Valve released this tool as a free download to all Raspberry Pi users, making it accessible via a single line of code. Valve’s Steam Link, in case you don’t know, allows users of the gaming distribution platform Steam to stream video games from their PC to a display of their choice via their home network, with no need for cumbersome wires and whatnot. And of course, the Raspberry Pi has a bunch of uses beyond being a game streaming box, too.Connect your gaming PC to your TV with ease, thanks to Steam Link and Raspberry Pi.īack in 2018, we asked Simon, our Asset Management Assistant Keeper of the Swag, Organiser of the Stuff, Lord Commander of the Things to give Steam Link on Raspberry Pi a try for us, as he likes that sort of thing and was probably going to do it anyway. And voilà, you've got a fully functional DIY Steam Link box, easy to connect with a range of gamepads and at $35 probably a lot cheaper than upgrading your router for stutter-free gameplay. Just make sure you're running the 'Stretch' version of Pi's OS (which has been default anyway since August 2017) and drop in a few lines ( here). At the time of writing, Steam Link App was compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 models. In 2018 the device was discontinued and the shift changed to maintaining the Steam Link App.

On Monday, Valve's Sam Lantinga announced that the Steam Link app is now available in beta form on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+. The Steam Link device was made by the Valve Corporation in 2015.

Valve, however, is offering an alternative, and it comes in the form of Raspberry Pi. The Steam Link app continues to live on in mobile devices and smart TVs, so it's not the end of days, but this doesn't offer the same latency-mitigating clout as Ethernet-wired hardware.

The simple black micro PCs designed to let you play games in the living room - or anywhere else in the house away from your gaming rig - is sold out everywhere and it seems Valve has no plans to produce more.

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