What is Steam Link?
In 2015, Valve released a small computer called Steam Link. It was designed to stream computer games to your television. The Steam Link box has since been discontinued, but Valve recently released new Steam Link software just for the Raspberry Pi. Valve’s new software turns your Raspberry Pi into a contact point for streaming Steam’s Big Picture UI, putting your full Steam library right on the TV!
Why ?
Allowing you to stream your PC to your Raspberry Pi on the same LAN, if you want to play in another room on your TV instead of your room for example
How ?
Steam launched a Beta SteamLink app for the Raspberry Pi, let’s install it
Requirements :
- a Raspberry Pi
- a Computer Running Steam
- an Internet/LAN connexion
- a Keyboard or Gaming Controller
- RetroPie ( Optional )
a Raspberry Pi B or B+, with the latest version of Raspbian, or our MIcroSD Card 8GB Class 10 Raspbian preinstalled.
Install SteamLink on the Raspberry Pi
Official Steam Thread about Raspberry Pi and SteamLink Updates
Installing SteamLink
sudo apt update sudo apt install steamlink
To run, you can launch it from the Games menu, or run the following from a command line:
steamlink
Launching SteamLink at boot
If you want your Raspberry Pi to function as a Steam Link box all the time, you can set Steam Link to launch on boot. Open the crontab file using this command:
crontab -e
And the bottom of the file, add this string:
@reboot nohup steamlink &
Save the changes and close the crontab file. Until that line is removed, Steam Link will launch every time the Pi is booted.
Optional: Install SteamLink in RetroPie
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On other hosts add the remote printer using ipp (use the same address you see in browser when editing the printer on the CUPS web interface, but with ipp instead of http).
1 – Go to RetroPie Configuration Menu -> RetroPie Setup
2 – Select S Update RetroPie-Setup script , confirm Yes
3 – After the Update, select P Manage Packages -> exp Manage Experimental Packages -> Select steamlink & Install
4 – Reboot the Raspberry Pi, then go to Ports Menu and select STEAM LINK
