At the current time Steam Link is only compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 and later Raspberry Pi computers. PC Mag has created a great tutorial on what you need and how to set the hardware to stream PC games. Steam Link is available as an iOS, Android and Raspberry Pi applicarion and will allow you to quickly and easily connect both your large TV and PC with very little effort. One such project using a Raspberry Pi and the Steam Link application is easy to setup. Well, it’s 2020 and since many of us are staying home lately, so we figured it would be nice to remind you all that this streaming service is still available.Since Valve pulled the plug on its Steam Link hardware those looking to create a link from their gaming PC to their large screen TV have needed to create their own alternative. The result of Simon’s experiment was positive: he reported that setting up Steam Link was easy, and the final product was a simple and affordable means of playing PC games on his TV, away from his PC in another room. Originally produced as a stand-alone box in 2018, Valve released this tool as a free download to all Raspberry Pi users, making it accessible via a single line of code. Valve’s Steam Link, in case you don’t know, allows users of the gaming distribution platform Steam to stream video games from their PC to a display of their choice via their home network, with no need for cumbersome wires and whatnot.

Connect your gaming PC to your TV with ease, thanks to Steam Link and Raspberry Pi.īack in 2018, we asked Simon, our Asset Management Assistant Keeper of the Swag, Organiser of the Stuff, Lord Commander of the Things to give Steam Link on Raspberry Pi a try for us, as he likes that sort of thing and was probably going to do it anyway.

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