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Headless Steam Link for Raspberry Pi 3 (+)
By ｐｓｙｄｅｘ
Setup a headless Steam Link on Raspberry Pi 3 (and above).
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Steam Link machine.
(for Raspberry Pi 4 and above - you can skip STEP 1)
   
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12 Dec, 2024 @ 9:27am
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Preparation
You will need:
Also:
  • Network cable is highly recommended!
Installation
STEP 1. Flash Raspberry Pi (buster) to your SD Card using Raspberry Pi Imager or Etcher
STEP 2. Boot into your RPi
STEP 3. Open Terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install steamlink
STEP 4. Start Menu (RPi button on top left corner) > Preferences > RPI configuration
  • Set Network at boot = ON
  • Set Performance = 256

> REBOOT

STEP 5. To automatically start Steam Link as soon as your Raspberry Pi boots up:
Open Terminal (CTRL+ALT+T)
sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
  • scroll to bottom and add steamlink
  • CTRL+X > Y > Enter

> REBOOT AND ENJOY
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ｐｓｙｄｅｘ  [author] 12 Apr @ 10:36am 
@DylalyD, I'm using a Steam controller so I didn't have any problems. Try switching to different mode on your controller (Xinput/Dinput) look to enable support for your controller via Steam settings (while in Big Picture mode) :aushrug:
DylalyD 12 Apr @ 4:59am 
Hey! I followed your guide and it worked like a charm! However my controllers don't seem to work and I can't installe xone since this version of raspbian has an unsupported kernel version.


What did you to for controlled input?
Big Bird 3 Feb @ 11:24am 
On a raspberry pi 5, with bookworm, I needed to follow these instructions instead https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/app/353380/discussions/6/501685433118244791/

(essentially editing ~/.config/labwc/autostart instead, I also had to create the ~/.config/labwc/ directory first)