Steam Link

Steam Link

Steam Link version 1.2.0
Steam Link for macOS been updated with the following changes:
  • Steam Link no longer unpairs from previous accounts when pairing to a new Steam account on the same computer
  • Fixed a crash at startup when some types of controllers are connected
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После обновления на iPad OS16.1 при подключении к ПК через steam link не определяет контроллер как контроллер, видит его как клавиатуру и мышь…
[Re-posting under correct topic]

Great news but you are still not addressing what I would consider a major issue. Here is the email I sent to the email address no longer being monitored:

(Don’t know how else to communicate the following to Steam)

I have been trying to figure out for a while why Steam Link (app) has so many latency issues on my iMac and MBP. I originally thought it was my router (XT8) but it wasn’t. Without taking too much of your time and since it is not mentioned anywhere in your documentation:

In order to have proper and good network times on a Mac one needs to disable Location Services and Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL). Before doing so I could barely play anything at even 3Mbs and 720 res, but with the aforementioned disabled I can now play at 100Mbps and 3K res!

I consider this a major improvement and worth mentioning to your user base, especially considering that Steam Link opens up the Mac/Apple market to gaming.

A detailed article of AWDL and Location Services mentioned here https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifriedx-in-depth-look-at-yosemite-wifi-and-awdl-airdrop-41a93eb22e48 (not my own) and someone else mentioned it also in Redit (https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/mejxmx/steam_streaming_to_mbp_2015_has_lag_spikes_and/).

In essence, both should be possible to disable (make it a user option/suggestion if you like) from within SteamLink app, and disable it when not focused or running for better user experience. Or at very least you should mention it in your following articles:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4C03-C8BA-3EA1-B26A
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3E3D-BE6B-787D-A5D2



Key points:

1. Disable Location Services (all) during Steam Link via the Settings app.

2. Disable AWDL from the terminal via sudo ifconfig awdl0 down (re-enabe: sudo ifconfig awdl0 up)




Finally, note that you have a redirection issue in your site, the Mac Specific Issues link point to https://support.steampowered.com/kb_cat.php?id=81&l=english URL which is broken. Found at page https://help.steampowered.com/en/

You may wish to address that too.
Hi slouken, are you still working on this app? If so, I'm wondering whether it's a known issue that the host has to be on the same LAN, or if it's a bug or issue with my machine? I don't have this problem with the Steam Link app on Android.
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