Steam Link now in BETA on Raspberry Pi

[slouken]

The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch

To install, run the following from a command line:
curl -#Of http://media.steampowered.com/steamlink/rpi/steamlink_1.0.7_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i steamlink_1.0.7_armhf.deb

To run, you can launch it from the Games menu, or run the following from a command line:
steamlink

The first time you run it, it will download the full app and create a desktop shortcut, and automatically update as needed.

[gocho8]

This is amazing, and totally unexpected (as was Steamplay). Thanks!

[Daegalus]

Any chance we can get an Arm64 version of this for boards like the Pine64, Rock64, and so on? I personally have one of these that I want to make into a SteamLink / Rainway box: https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=7147 They have Debian/Raspbian/Ubuntu forks also.

[boh]

Does it work for everyone? I have problem, that after I start streaming steam shows on my tv for like 1 second and then blank screen -> No hdmi output follows and video output works after i quit steamplay. Is there any log that could help me or anything? Btw i use RPI 3 B+ with raspbian stretch

[slouken]

Originally posted by boh:

Does it work for everyone? I have problem, that after I start streaming steam shows on my tv for like 1 second and then blank screen -> No hdmi output follows and video output works after i quit steamplay. Is there any log that could help me or anything? Btw i use RPI 3 B+ with raspbian stretch

Try updating your system:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

[boh]

Originally posted by slouken:

Originally posted by boh:

Does it work for everyone? I have problem, that after I start streaming steam shows on my tv for like 1 second and then blank screen -> No hdmi output follows and video output works after i quit steamplay. Is there any log that could help me or anything? Btw i use RPI 3 B+ with raspbian stretch

Try updating your system:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

didn't help. Here is output when i run steamlink from terminal, maybe it'll help you somehow: https://pastebin.com/lj7K5dRf

[Neuron]

This is absolutely awesome, BUT one question. Why is it not supported on pi 2? Its the same die as the pi3, just slightly lower clocks.

[Thann]

I love you

[slouken]

Originally posted by boh:

Originally posted by slouken:

Try updating your system:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

didn't help. Here is output when i run steamlink from terminal, maybe it'll help you somehow: https://pastebin.com/lj7K5dRf

Found it, you need to comment out overscan_scale=1 in /boot/config.txt and then reboot.

[slouken]

Originally posted by Neuron:

This is absolutely awesome, BUT one question. Why is it not supported on pi 2? Its the same die as the pi3, just slightly lower clocks.

No, it's a completely different CPU, and the GPU doesn't support H.264 video at 1080p 60 FPS.

[slouken]

Originally posted by boh:

Does it work for everyone? I have problem, that after I start streaming steam shows on my tv for like 1 second and then blank screen -> No hdmi output follows and video output works after i quit steamplay. Is there any log that could help me or anything? Btw i use RPI 3 B+ with raspbian stretch

Check /boot/config.txt for the line overscan_scale=1 and comment it out and reboot if you find it there.

[boh]

Originally posted by slouken:

Originally posted by boh:

Does it work for everyone? I have problem, that after I start streaming steam shows on my tv for like 1 second and then blank screen -> No hdmi output follows and video output works after i quit steamplay. Is there any log that could help me or anything? Btw i use RPI 3 B+ with raspbian stretch

Check /boot/config.txt for the line overscan_scale=1 and comment it out and reboot if you find it there.

That worked, thanks for your help

[slouken]

Originally posted by boh:

Originally posted by slouken:

Check /boot/config.txt for the line overscan_scale=1 and comment it out and reboot if you find it there.

That worked, thanks for your help

You’re welcome!

[Severnya]

@slouken this is great, but I am having a little bit of difficulty when it comes to "Start playing"...

It says "Connecting..." then the app crashes. I cannot see any logs or reasons why it failed. Could you provide some assistance in debugging the reason? Can I start "steamlink" with some debug environment or switches set?

Cheers.

EDIT: this is what I am getting, for reference...

INFO: Starting Streaming
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
INFO: Received authorization proof request, responding with encrypted challenge
INFO: Received start streaming response k_ERemoteDeviceStreamingInProgress
INFO: Received start streaming response k_ERemoteDeviceStreamingSuccess

[slouken]

Originally posted by Severnya:

@slouken this is great, but I am having a little bit of difficulty when it comes to "Start playing"...

It says "Connecting..." then the app crashes. I cannot see any logs or reasons why it failed. Could you provide some assistance in debugging the reason? Can I start "steamlink" with some debug environment or switches set?

Cheers.

EDIT: this is what I am getting, for reference...

INFO: Starting Streaming
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
INFO: Received authorization proof request, responding with encrypted challenge
INFO: Received start streaming response k_ERemoteDeviceStreamingInProgress
INFO: Received start streaming response k_ERemoteDeviceStreamingSuccess

Not a lot there...

Can you ssh in and modify steamlink.sh to print out the launch command line and then run gdb on bin/streaming_client and run it with the launch command line and get a stack trace?

[Severnya]

I have found this...

$ ldd bin/streaming_client
...
libh264bitstream.so.0 => not found

Seems this lib is not on my install...