Steam Deck

Steam Deck

Steam Deck/OLED to PC via Bluetooth Audio
Recently I discovered I that could connect my Nintendo Switch to my PC via audio bluetooth. All I needed was to get the MS Bluetooth Audio Receiver app and I was able to use SteelSeries Sonar on my NS game!

I attempted this on my Steam Deck OLED, except it was backwards. I can only hear my PC audio on my Deck. I even set the Steam Deck OLED as "Audio Source" in 'Control Panel' on my PC, and it still does not work

I can't even connect to my PC from my Deck. I can only connect to my Deck from my PC. When I try to connect from my Deck, it connects and disconnects over and over in the Bluetooth settings on SteamOS desktop

Is the Steam Deck/OLED stupidly designed to be a receiver-only or something? FFS, even the NS has this basic feature! I can even connect my tablet and phones to my PC like that! Is it a bug? Is there a special app I need to make it work on Deck/Linux?

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I typically used Steam Link for this, but Bluetooth should be SO much better as streaming to my PC (even with audio only) consumes way more watts, meaning it actually impacts the performance

For context: My connection to my PC via Steam Link is absolutely terrible. It's unable to project a video, even of the lowest quality, without buffering hard at like 64 bit rate, but plays fine when streaming FROM my PC (Although the stream's frame rate gets cut in half randomly and I have to reconnect..). I can only project audio thru Steam Link. It manages to project video perfectly to my tablet tho smh.. So IDK if it's a Windows issue or something on my PC, but I can't find a fix for that

The Steam Deck/OLED is also known for having awful WiFi. The internet connection SUCKS. I've NEVER been able to get full bars. I'm stuck at like 60% signal strength, even if I'm 3ft from my router. IDK what Valve did, but it cannot be fixed, unfortunately

And my download speeds are less than half without the Steam Console command fixes and .cfg file tweaking that I scoured the internet for, and it only MOSTLY fixes the download speeds. FFS, even using ethernet somehow makes it worse!!

Is the bluetooth effected by this? Is it just another thing on the Deck that doesn't work properly like the internet connection and download speeds?
Last edited by Cqllel; Mar 31 @ 8:10pm
Date Posted: Mar 31 @ 7:42pm
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