![]() The £32 circuit-board computer now has official support from Valve as the company announced a beta of the Steam Link app for both the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+. Once again, it looks like the Raspberry Pi could save the day. In other words, the lack of an ethernet port is a real problem. While you can now use the Steam Link app for mobile and smart TVs, doing so relies on WiFi, which is more prone to latency issues. That’s a problem for those that haven’t already got one and can’t sort one secondhand. ![]() Unfortunately, they have now sold out everywhere and Valve has said it has no plans to make more.Īlthough the software will continue to be tinkered with, the hardware has reached the end of the road. A tiny, simple micro PC designed with one purpose in mind: to stream PC games from Steam to your television via WiFi or ethernet cable. While the experience is not seamless and one to one, it was extremely good – definitely good enough if you have the odd PC game you’d rather play on your TV without lugging a massive tower around.The Steam Link Box was a surprisingly popular device. From a dedicated gaming PC hooked up over Ethernet, it was a different story. A WiFi-connected laptop stuttered a little, and had some frame tearing however, similar performance is experienced on an actual Steam Link. So much so that our gameplay experience was only hampered by the computer to which we connected. We highly recommend a wired connection for this – and thanks to the Gigabit Ethernet on Raspberry Pi 4, it’s going to make a huge difference. ![]() Installing Steam Link is easy – it’s available from the Raspbian software repository so can be installed from the Terminal with a simple sudo apt install steamlink. ![]() Over the last month or so, more stable versions have been released, so we thought it was time to give it a test. With the release of Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspbian Buster, it’s taken some time to get a new version of the Steam Link app which works as well as it should. There used to be dedicated hardware for this, but it has been available for Raspberry Pi (and other hardware) for a while now. Essentially, it’s a local network streaming service that allows you to stream games from a gaming PC to another computer hooked up to a screen. ![]()
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