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Controller for Steam link

DesiPower

DesiPower

Lifer
I just bough a steam link, it was on sale for $15, thought it would come with a controller but of course it didn't... Looked up on Amazon and Lalve Steam Controller is like $60... wow...

My question is, does it have to be Valve steam controller? or any USB controller will work? Does anyone have any experience with steam link?
 
Simplest search of "Steam Link" turns this up on the search results page...

What controllers work with steam Link?
The Steam Link supports the following input devices:
  • The Steam Controller.
  • The official Microsoft Xbox One Wired Controller.
  • The official Microsoft Xbox 360 Wired Controller.
  • The official Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows (with wireless receiver)
  • Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710.
  • Keyboard and mouse.
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I just use the xbox controller, but I do have a valve one as I got it on sale with the link.
 
Just so you know: i bought the thing at full price when it first came out. was not impressed.
video quality is horrible. 100 mbit is not fast enough to transfer good looking 1080p at 60 frames per second. It usually appeared pixelated and had frequent stuttering. Should have been a gigabit device.
 
shortylickens said:
Just so you know: i bought the thing at full price when it first came out. was not impressed.
video quality is horrible. 100 mbit is not fast enough to transfer good looking 1080p at 60 frames per second. It usually appeared pixelated and had frequent stuttering. Should have been a gigabit device.
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Were you running wired? I've been very happy with mine, it's my universal HTPC (linked back to a plex box) and remote-gaming jobber. It's garbage on wireless with latency but it's great on wired. Odds are good if they were sending an uncompressed stream that'd need >100Mb/s it'd have too high latency to be useful anyhow.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
Were you running wired? I've been very happy with mine, it's my universal HTPC (linked back to a plex box) and remote-gaming jobber. It's garbage on wireless with latency but it's great on wired. Odds are good if they were sending an uncompressed stream that'd need >100Mb/s it'd have too high latency to be useful anyhow.
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What controller do you use?
 
shortylickens said:
Just so you know: i bought the thing at full price when it first came out. was not impressed.
video quality is horrible. 100 mbit is not fast enough to transfer good looking 1080p at 60 frames per second. It usually appeared pixelated and had frequent stuttering. Should have been a gigabit device.
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What controller do you use?
 
DesiPower said:
What controller do you use?
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Wireless keyboard/mouse, I'm playing big boy PC games, not Duplo blocks 😛

I kid, the link is a pass-through so as far as I know, most controllers should work, if your computer can pick them up. Steam has an 'approved' list up there though, so just get some ebay'd xbox controller or something.
 
Just got mine in as well.

It works natively with the Xbox S wireless controller (the one with bluetooth). Looking at the documentation, I think it will work with the Xbox 360 controllers and original Xbox One controllers, but those require the official wireless adapters. If you are using a wired Xbox controller, the link should recognize the controller immediately.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
Wireless keyboard/mouse, I'm playing big boy PC games, not Duplo blocks 😛

I kid, the link is a pass-through so as far as I know, most controllers should work, if your computer can pick them up. Steam has an 'approved' list up there though, so just get some ebay'd xbox controller or something.
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Oh wait, so the controller will have to be connected to the PC and not the steam link device? That weird... it will kinda defeat the purpose. My gaming PC is pretty far away on another from from my game room, where I intend to use it...

I saw a couple of USB ports at the back on that thing, and assumed I can connect two wireless controllers like this in the video on this page... I need to RTFM...
 
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DesiPower said:
Oh wait, so the controller will have to be connected to the PC and not the steam link device? That weird... it will kinda defeat the purpose. My gaming PC is pretty far away on another from from my game room, where I intend to use it...

I saw a couple of USB ports at the back on that thing, and assumed I can connect two wireless controllers like this in the video on this page... I need to RTFM...
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no, the controller can be connected to a USB port on the steam link. here's my setup

steam link --> USB hub --> xbox controller (also wireless keyboard)
 
DesiPower said:
Oh wait, so the controller will have to be connected to the PC and not the steam link device? That weird... it will kinda defeat the purpose. My gaming PC is pretty far away on another from from my game room, where I intend to use it...

I saw a couple of USB ports at the back on that thing, and assumed I can connect two wireless controllers like this in the video on this page... I need to RTFM...
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What Fenix said, it's connected to the Link, it just feeds info between your computer and it. I don't know that the Link actually does anything driver related, for instance. Just acts as a pass-through for the data.
 
DesiPower said:
I just bough a steam link, it was on sale for $15, thought it would come with a controller but of course it didn't... Looked up on Amazon and Lalve Steam Controller is like $60... wow...

My question is, does it have to be Valve steam controller? or any USB controller will work? Does anyone have any experience with steam link?
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You can Bluetooth a PS4 controller to it, a wired 360 controller works well too

shortylickens said:
Just so you know: i bought the thing at full price when it first came out. was not impressed.
video quality is horrible. 100 mbit is not fast enough to transfer good looking 1080p at 60 frames per second. It usually appeared pixelated and had frequent stuttering. Should have been a gigabit device.
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I have mine plugged into my pc 2nd Ethernet port, stream quality is excellent, but the damn thing needs perfect connectivity to avoid what you refer

TechBoyJK said:
Is steam link only 100mbps?
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Yep
 
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