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Steam Link downgrade on Raspberry Pi
Manually Downgrade Steam Link

Information for downgrading steamlink was a bit hidden and scattered around so gathering info here for people who might need it

  • Copy&paste to terminal using pi user
STEAMLINK_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/SteamLink echo "file://$STEAMLINK_DATA_HOME" >"$STEAMLINK_DATA_HOME/update_url" echo "http://media.steampowered.com/steamlink/rpi/steamlink-rpi3-1.1.57.137.tar.gz" >"$STEAMLINK_DATA_HOME/public_build.txt"

steamlink

For future you need to run steamlink with --skip-update argument in order to stay in current version
steamlink --skip-update

For raspi3 (stretch) I'm running systemd service for steamlink

  • sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/steamlink.service

[Unit] Description=Steamlink Service [Service] Type=simple User=pi ExecStart=/usr/bin/steamlink --skip-update Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=graphical.target

  • sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  • sudo systemctl enable steamlink.service
  • sudo systemctl start steamlink.service

For raspi4 (buster) there seems to be multiple methods for autostart as described here https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/6/1642042464752247649/. One method which should work for all is adding simple wrapper

  • cd /usr/bin/
  • sudo mv steamlink steamlink.exec
  • sudo nano steamlink
#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/steamlink.exec --skip-update
  • sudo chmod 755 steamlink

Hope this helps anyone who for reason or another needs to rollback to older version of steamlink

Resources:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/6/1660069015242109357/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/6/3681064390585946947/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/6/1642042464752247649/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/6/2791621875954512493/
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Very helpful! Thank you for sharing your knolege!
I think the URL changed and now includes your distro and architecture. But the rest still works.
For me it was
https://media.steampowered.com/steamlink/rpi/trixie/armhf/steamlink-rpi-trixie-armhf-1.4.2.321.tar.gz
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