Rear buttons don't work on Remote Play sessions.

[Dark Cocoa Daddy]

Trying to use the buttons on the back of my Steam Deck. Verified they worked on local games on my deck. Attempted to use them while connected to my host PC, and even if they're mapped to a button that's being used in the game they do not respond at all.

[Hunter Bidens Pipe]

i have the same issue. gyro controls dont passthrough either

[Dark Cocoa Daddy]

Originally posted by Col. Senpai:

i have the same issue. gyro controls dont passthrough either

Looked into it more and apparently this is an issue with Remote Play and not the deck from what I'm seeing. Hoping they update it and make it seamless, it's a sorely missed feature.

[Xavum]

Freaky I just had the same issue. Fixed by pressing steam and back again

[austinp_valve]

Can you try opting into the beta client on your desktop's Steam client?

[Hunter Bidens Pipe]

Originally posted by austinp_valve:

Can you try opting into the beta client on your desktop's Steam client?

im on the beta client on desktop currently. neither gyro controls or rear buttons work when using remote play.

[Hunter Bidens Pipe]

Originally posted by austinp_valve:

Can you try opting into the beta client on your desktop's Steam client?

Originally posted by Col. Senpai:

Originally posted by austinp_valve:

Can you try opting into the beta client on your desktop's Steam client?

im on the beta client on desktop currently. neither gyro controls or rear buttons work when using remote play.

also, to add, i almost forgot. i was playing rust via remote play on my steam deck and ticking invert y axis in controller settings did nothing as well.

[Dark Cocoa Daddy]

Originally posted by austinp_valve:

Can you try opting into the beta client on your desktop's Steam client?

I will try as soon as I'm able to.

Also to note the deck in general is very strange about detecting when my PC is available to stream as well. Often times I have to restart to have the option to select a game despite seeing my PC as a client on the Steam Decks remote play menu.

[austinp_valve]

It looks like making edits while streaming is working but the initial handshake when you start streaming is still broken. We're working on a fix, but that won't go out until next week.

[Dünner Hering]

Originally posted by austinp_valve:

It looks like making edits while streaming is working but the initial handshake when you start streaming is still broken. We're working on a fix, but that won't go out until next week.

When is the fix arriving? I still cant use my Buttons L4.L5 and R4,R5 in Remote Play!

[austinp_valve]

Can you opt into the beta channel on both PC and Deck?

[Hunter Bidens Pipe]

Originally posted by austinp_valve:

Can you opt into the beta channel on both PC and Deck?

im opted into beta on both desktop and steam deck. rear buttons still do nothing and changing settings in the steam input settings does nothing as well. for example i was using the gamepad with joystick pad template. i set l4 to f11 and right trackpad to mouse with clicking as left click. applying these settings does nothing. right trackpad still acts as a joystick, clicking it is like clicking r3, and l4 is not pressing f11. i am streaming yuzu from desktop.

[Gwemmie]

I'm also opted into both betas and experiencing the same problem. No matter what game I stream, all I get is a basic Xbox-style controller, mouse on right touchpad, and right-click on left touchpad. Completely ignores my controller settings for every game. I'm streaming from a Linux host.

[Sadtiric]

I also have this issue, but only when streaming Destiny 2, so far. Elden Ring and Rage 2 both have functional back buttons while streaming. Yes, I tried Beta on both PC and Deck. What's weird is that it worked the first time, and then never again, hence looking here and trying to troubleshoot.

I'm wondering if it's possible to enable the back buttons to be used in the Home menu as well. I've gotten quite used to my Elite S2 controller and use them for everything and have been having trouble adjusting back to face buttons in general. I couldn't find any info on other forums.

[xen]

Can confirm same issue using remote play for Skyrim SE.

Remote from desktop to steam deck. Bluetooth Xbox elite 2 game pad.
Not able to make edits to what the back buttons do. They're enabled and mirroring face buttons as they usually do by default, but changes made to their output have no effect.

[Gwemmie]

I got it working! I had to do the following:
-Switch to Flatpak version
-Enable XBox and Generic Gamepad support in the general controller settings--I can't tell you which of the two, or if it was both, but my guess is XBox because before I did that it complained about being unable to configure XBox controllers and my controls profile didn't work.

It took both steps. Now I can see the config profile of my Steam Deck, my neptune controller, on my Linux desktop streaming host, in the controller configuration in the Steam overlay, and it actually works in-game just fine.

I did NOT have to opt into any beta updates. Just Flatpak. I've been really frustrated with how incredibly jank Steam's Linux client has been for the past year or two anyway, even on Arch Linux, configured properly, Steam runtime, and doing nothing weird. The Flatpak version is like a breath of fresh air. Less buggy, less crashy, and streaming actually works without constantly crashing.