I use moonlight occasionally and it will let me login including for the first time when using nvidias drivers for the server if that is what you’re looking for
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
9 points (100.0% liked)
Steam Hardware
22753 readers
346 users here now
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
This seems to work ok. Thanks!
- you could use another rdp client to do so. As I have no idea if steam link etc works for this.
- I use steam stream purley because it is easy to do so and I have had little to no issues using it.
- when you hit exit game on deck etc for me it does close on main PC as well.
Edit: no idea how to format... I tried
Personally I've been streaming with moonlight/sunshine onto my steam deck instead of Steam's remote play. It's higher quality, lower latency, and it handles non-steam games. There's even a DeckyLoader plugin to make game tiles to make the streaming option look more integrated.
A couple of things to note if you go down that route:
-
Youtube guides on setting up sunshine on windows are a few months out of date, you'll need to do some remajiggering to get it working
-
Sunshine needs you to add a script to launch from a desktop shortcut if you want to boot in directly from the Steam Deck. Steam makes it easy to create desktop shortcuts, and you can toss them into a desktop folder specifically for said shortcuts to make it easier and clean.
For your other questions, I'm not familiar with any way to remotely unlock your PC. You can set it up to not require a login on waking up from sleep though. Also, when you stream the game via Moonlight/Sunshine the game doesn't automatically shut down.
Thanks for the info about the DeckyLoader plugin and the suggestion to not require login from sleep. I think that’s a good compromise, meaning my computer will lock if powered off or rebooted, but not from just sleeping.