Playing Steam on my Living Room TV

[tdmphysics]

I have my desktop setup in my office. However, I would like to play Steam games on my living room TV using a Bluetooth headset, controller, and/or keyboard/mouse. I don't want to do this permanently, just once a week or so. I have heard that this could be done with a separate computer in the living room (like a laptop) connected to my home network and TV. This laptop would be acting as a 'tunnel' of some sort to my main computer in the other room. I am not sure on the specifics of how to set this up or the terminology to search How-To videos. Can someone please lend me a little help to get this worked out?

[Chef]

You could use the Steam Link.

[✨Saint✨]

You can use the following methods:



- A Miracast and wireless HDMI
- Cast games to a TV with Chromecast
- Stream games to TV with Nvidia GameStream
- Build a DIY Raspberry Pi Steam Link box to stream games from PC to TV
- Stream your PC game to a Smart TV or set-top box

[my new friend]

If you already have a laptop, set up in-home streaming.

[tdmphysics]

Originally posted by Chef:

You could use the Steam Link.

My buddy and I made the Journey to put steam link on our RPis and link those up. I am using a 5G wireless signal, but still getting some lag across the room when playing portal 2

Do you know of any way to use steam link and still allow your main computer to shut off the monitors? I don't need the game displayed at two different locations. When I manually turn my Desktop monitor off, it stops steam link.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by tdmphysics:

Originally posted by Chef:

You could use the Steam Link.

My buddy and I made the Journey to put steam link on our RPis and link those up. I am using a 5G wireless signal, but still getting some lag across the room when playing portal 2

Do you know of any way to use steam link and still allow your main computer to shut off the monitors? I don't need the game displayed at two different locations. When I manually turn my Desktop monitor off, it stops steam link.

Go to WIndows settings and set it so it only has the one monitor on at any time.

I have my laptop sat by my bed, hooked up to my TV. Under windows settings, I simply have it so that when my TV is turned off (or on another channel) it defaults back to my laptop monitor and vice versa.

As for the lag, when you're using anything wifi, you should try first cutting out other things using the wifi network, or tweaking what channel your router broadcasts on.

Wifi is a bit of a pain in the arse sometimes as it doesn't take much to screw things up if things interfere.