Status: not connected

[PinkPandaKatie]

I have two systems logged in. In the In-Home streaming tag, both systems see each other, but in the STATUS field, it says "Not connected" and I don't see any way to actually stream games.

[Bonezz]

Same thing. I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to do to connect it.

[PinkPandaKatie]

A little more information about my network setup:

The systems are on the same subnet, but because of my VPN setup, the IP address that Steam uses to connect to the Internet is not the same IP address that the LAN uses. At first, I noticed Steam sends a UDP packet to 255.255.255.255, which causes it to be routed to the VPN, and not the local network. I explicitly added 255.255.255.255 to my route table:

route add 255.255.255.255 dev eth0

and that got Steam to at least show the other system in the list. Monitoring all traffic between the systems using Wireshark shows that system 1 sends discovery to 255.255.255.255:27036, then system 2 responds with a unicast packet to the same port, and nothing else.

[samdidliambo]

Same problem for me, but I don't think I'm using a vpn, just a regular wi-fi N and ethernet lan setup.

[Dank]

I finally got it to work. I went to "big picture" mode on the machine I wanted to stream to, and it almost immediately started the connecting process. Then it worked!

Hopefully that is actually the solution and not just a coincidence...

[PinkPandaKatie]

Going to big picture mode on both systems did not help me.

[Hasney]

I had to connect it by double clicking on the computer in settings, then everything worked nice.

If you still have problems, might be a port issue. Try turning off the firewall on your router temporarily and see if it works then.

[Faith No More]

I landed from not seeing any devices, to this status now :D

Hooray, Progress.

But still, BigPicture didnt help me, double clicking didnt do it either :/

[Renan_Vader]

I updated both systems client, then logged both on the big picture, accessed the configurations on the "dummy" system and they connected, working fine, but looses a little video quality.

[Faith No More]

It works now here too. Had to fiddle around with the firewall though

[Alpha7]

I had this problem when i first got the beta but found out my clients were not 100% updated. Even restarting them didn't force them to update. I had to manually hit "update steam" under "Steam"

Make sure all steam apps are participating in the Beta, if one is not it will show the in home streaming but will not allow you to actually see "not connected" as if you are in the beta on that computer.

Occasionally I have to just restart the steam apps for them to see each other, no logic i've fund yet as to why.

Lastly in one of the official steam posts it does say to have a certain internal port open (sorry I cant find the post and about to head to bed) but that also could be causing an issue.

Hope one of these help.

[BB King]

It happens to me now and then between different computers and the trick I found

Originally posted by FAT QUEEF LIPS:

I had to connect it by double clicking on the computer in settings, then everything worked nice.

If you still have problems, might be a port issue. Try turning off the firewall on your router temporarily and see if it works then.

It happens to me now and then between different computers and the trick I found is the one you described. Always work for me. Restarting steam on the host computer also gets it to "publish" its online status to others I guess and they usually see it afterwards.

[Cin]

Started working for me when I opened settings dialog on "in home streaming" tab on both computers at the same time

[Running Away...]

Similar issues... Both machines seem to "see" each other in that they both show each other as "not connected" within settings. Placing both machines into the setting view does nothing to resolve the issue.

The network setup is main machine to a WiFi router to another machine each with its own subnet.

[WhySoSerious]

I had this isseu too going with the client to big picture mode and click settings, in-home streaming and click on the host pc gave connected than it was ok works great some games in campaign worked pretty good multiplayer gave some slight lag but was ok.
O and have tested it wireless.
Host was connected wireless client wired.

[SSJ Sonic]

I fixed the issue by going to my network settings on my host computer and changing the network type from Public to Home.