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Excelsis Apr 5, 2014 @ 7:57pm

Shortcuts to stream.

Currently when you create a shortcut of a game that isn't installed on the client machine, it will try to install it instead of streaming. It would be nice if it could start streaming instead, this would allow things like having shortcuts of your games inside XBMC or other media frontends to stream your games. Also allowing to create shortcuts for non-steam games would be nice too.

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Phantom May 25, 2014 @ 2:38pm

sure here, i'm use an xbmc + windows XP - all nice, i can run LfD2 at 720P with nice FPS, but i need these command line or another way to start the streaming from my xbmc ...

only asking : the streaming run from big picture too ? i'm use windows XP at my htpc, so i cannot run big picture to test here...

Excelsis May 25, 2014 @ 9:18pm

Originally posted by Windmill:
Not 100% sure what you're asking but, you can launch streaming from basic Steam UI or Big Screen.

Obviously. I know that, but I don't want to have to go into Steam to start streaming a game.
Here's a screenshot of my current setup; http://puu.sh/91wPc.jpg
With this, I can start any local game that is in Steam just by pressing A on my 360 controller, it goes straight to the game no problem.

But currently you can't make a shortcut to launch a streamed game, it'll ask to install in Steam instead. As for non-Steam games, you don't even get the choice of creating a shortcut.

I don't think there's anyway to do this currently, except maybe with some AHK script, but that would be kind of messy, so I just start Big Picture from XBMC for now and launch streamed games from there, but it's kind of a roundabout way of doing it.

I'm pretty sure it would be easy for Valve to fix this.

Excelsis May 25, 2014 @ 10:24pm

Oh haha, sorry, I've been sick the last few days so I'm not all there. I'm not sure either, I guess it's an oversight.

Phantom May 27, 2014 @ 6:18pm

hi guys, it´s help ? http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/540731690719879426/?tscn=1401221610

Phantom May 28, 2014 @ 4:37am

i'm trying to do an reverse enginering here...

Excelsis Jun 3, 2014 @ 10:19am

Nice!

Edit: Still can't create shortcuts for non-Steam games though. :\

Last edited by Excelsis; Jun 4, 2014 @ 9:02am

Phantom Jun 3, 2014 @ 7:41pm

Allelujah

davew_uk Aug 1, 2014 @ 2:03pm

I was planning to use LaunchBox on my weakest streaming client, which doesn't run BPM well because of the transparent graphics glitching.

I just wanted to see if there was any update yet that would allow non-steam games to be launched on the streaming client from the command-line? perhaps its coming in a future beta?

Eldur Jun 20, 2023 @ 7:07am

It's 2023. And I still want this. Specific case: I want to run "System Monitor" on the Steam Deck with a simple double click on something on my desktop instead of having to open up Steam, go to Library if something else was open last, click the filter thing, type "sys", click the thing and hit the Stream button which already is the fastest way, but still way to many steps. There's no way to create a shortcut since it's neither installed or even installable on Windows nor it's an actual Steam Game.

Please just let us create shortcuts for anything within the library, including non-Steam "games" and Remote Play streaming on specific devices.