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No longer recognizing Steam Controller
I'm running Steam Link on Raspberry and, up until now, it's been nearly flawless. Today however, it's not correctly recognizing my steam controller. It works just fine if I move the dongle directly to the host PC but, on the steam link software on Raspberry (3 B+), it shows the graphic of a Stadia/Nintendo Switch type controller and won't let me set it up again or re-pair it. Got a hardware Steam link I will try shortly but, any thoughts as to what might be going on?
Last edited by JK_Mooney; Jan 12, 2020 @ 4:44pm
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JK_Mooney
Jan 12, 2020 @ 4:19pm 
Appears to still work with the old hardware Steam Link although I'm finding I have to use the dongle now. Although, was simple enough to re-pair directly to it. I'm also finding that mouse performance is better in my test game (Elder Scrolls Online) with the Hardware Steam Link.
Last edited by JK_Mooney; Jan 12, 2020 @ 4:44pm
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JK_Mooney
Jan 12, 2020 @ 4:48pm 
Also, if it helps, I have bluetooth set up on my Raspberry and, if start the Steam controller in bluetooth ("B" + "STEAM Button"), it functions in "Lizard Mode" - which is to be expected since bluetooth game controller mode is not supported on Raspberry. So, it seems that it's just not correctly detecting my Steam Controller as a Steam Controller through the dongle anymore.
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slouken
Jan 13, 2020 @ 11:22am 
Originally posted by Corvus Shade:
Also, if it helps, I have bluetooth set up on my Raspberry and, if start the Steam controller in bluetooth ("B" + "STEAM Button"), it functions in "Lizard Mode" - which is to be expected since bluetooth game controller mode is not supported on Raspberry. So, it seems that it's just not correctly detecting my Steam Controller as a Steam Controller through the dongle anymore.

What distribution are you running?

Did you install the new udev rules? This should have been a terminal pop-up once after installing the last update.

What’s the output of id?
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JK_Mooney
Jan 13, 2020 @ 12:32pm 
No popup to install udev rules. Running through OSMC. Will try to get diagnostics later today
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slouken
Jan 13, 2020 @ 12:38pm 
Originally posted by Corvus Shade:
No popup to install udev rules. Running through OSMC. Will try to get diagnostics later today

Oh, that makes sense. OSMC needs to be updated to install the new udev rules.
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JK_Mooney
Jan 13, 2020 @ 4:01pm 
Ahh.. I'd just done a apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade the day before so, I guess it sounds like it'll be broken until OSMC updates...
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JK_Mooney
Jan 13, 2020 @ 4:26pm 
On the other thread, I followed your observation and added user "osmc" to the "input" group via:

"sudo usermod -a -G input osmc" and I'm back in business. Thanks for your help...
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