Steam link on Armbian?

[OttawaHacker]

Anyone tried installing Steam Link? There seems to be an image in Raspberry OS but I cannot find a deb image for aarch64. Official flatpack is x64 only...

[Werner]

Maybe using the script provided here to fix missing libraries helps: https://blog.iancolwell.ca/steamlink-aarch64

Just ignore all the other stuff related to RPi only

[OttawaHacker]

3 minutes ago, Werner said:

Maybe using the script provided here to fix missing libraries helps: https://blog.iancolwell.ca/steamlink-aarch64

Just ignore all the other stuff related to RPi only

That one looks good but it requires having a steamlink available in a apt repo - haven't been able to find one yet 😕

[PajPaj]

@OttawaHacker I managed to stream games from pc to the OPI 5.

 

What  I did was install steam on the orange PI and then stream games from another steam installed in my desktop PC (you can run non steam games this way too)

Basically installed panfork drivers on Orange pi and then installed box64, box86, winex86, winetricks and steam using this script  https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming/tree/main

 

The only problem I had was that the sound was crackling while streaming games. I read it may be related to the sampling rates and tried to change them to 48khz, but it didn't fix the crackling issue.

If you manage to fix the sound thing, please let me know what you did

 

Thanks

 

[OttawaHacker]

7 minutes ago, PajPaj said:

If you manage to fix the sound thing, please let me know what you did

I got moonlight working with geforce streaming - and you can launch steam from there and everything was working fine (sound, video, controller through bluetooth). Sound was fine but my latency was not great, for now - I'm going to assume it is the wifi connection. Moonlight and steam link should have similar performance. Also another issue was loading times which were bad and not making sense... 

[PajPaj]

@OttawaHacker as far as I am aware moonlight requires the host to be running on Windows, but my host PC is a Linux one. Do you know if it is possible to use moonlight using a Linux host?

Edited August 2, 2023 by PajPaj

[OttawaHacker]

4 minutes ago, PajPaj said:

Do you know if it is possible to use moonlight using a Linux host?

Yes you should be able to run Sunshine - I haven't tested that one yet but it is supposed to be as good or better than Nvidia's GeForce LizardByte/Sunshine: Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. (github.com)

[Ian MacMillan]

Be advised that if you have an nVidia GPU in your Linux host machine, you may (will?) be in for a special kind of hell getting Sunshine to recognize and use the GPU for encoding. And if you do get it working, the fix may be fleeting, as OS updates can undo your fix.

[OttawaHacker]

Btw, been using moonlight on Armbian 23.11 with sunshine on my pc upstairs (windows) and that has been working incredibly. The only missing item I had to do is add xpadneo on armbian to get the rumble to work on the xbox controller through Bluetooth. 

[ArmBoy1988]

I found this a while ago.  I didn't try it as I'm not really up on Steam.  Thought it might help:

 

https://jamesachambers.com/installing-steam-on-the-orange-pi-5-with-armbian/

 

 

[OttawaHacker]

holy crap x86/x64 emulation with steam on top - that's next level