Steam Deck Beta Client Update Changes How Demos Can Be Installed - Steam Deck HQ
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A new small Steam Deck Beta Client update was released that changes how demos can be installed and uninstalled.
  • vinnymac@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    It’d be nice if it could wake itself up, and then begin to update games while idle. When done it could just go back to sleep again if it’s still idle after some time passes.

    Even better would be settings to choose auto updates from discover, the client, and any proton changes.

    Surprised they don’t have anything like this after years, it’s not a particularly complex problem to solve. All of the update logic for the games already exists, it’s literally just managing the wake/sleep events that they’d need to program.

    • Daughter3546@lemmy.world
      4·
      22 hours ago

      This would be an awesome feature to have. However, it’ll be very hardware and software dependent. The device needs to wake up constantly to poll if there’s a new demo or game to download.

      This is surprisingly a hard problem to solve due to underlying bugs in the embedded firmware and the OS.

      • vinnymac@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 hours ago

        You can already wake the device up over LAN, USB, or Bluetooth. You could even have a separate device such as a PC or phone that sends the wake up signal to the steam deck if you wanted. I have other devices that work this way in my home already.

        It’d be preferable to manage this all on device of course, but I assure you this is solvable where existing Steam Decks already reside, without needing to fix any low level firmwares.

        • dexterity@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 hours ago

          You can already wake the device up over LAN

          If you don’t mind, could you explain how to do this? I frequently forget to leave my steam deck on when wanting to use steam link.

          • vinnymac@lemmy.world
            1·
            29 minutes ago

            If you want to use WOL you’ll need an adapter/dock with an Ethernet port.

            Then use nmcli (network manager cli) to accept magic wake-up packets: nmcli c modify “Wired connection 1” 802-3-ethernet.wake-on-lan magic

            See more info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN

            Then you just send a magic packet using your Steam Decks MAC whenever you want it to wake up.

            Note: if you own an OLED Steam Deck technically you can just do this over Bluetooth with a controller instead, because of the hardware update.