Adding Steamlink to v9.0.0

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Can somone provide the steamlink.sh file? The pastebin is down

edit:Is it still not working with RPi4?

No, still the same error as user burny02 has. But like chewitt says, it probably isn't possible on the pi4 without sudo

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No, still the same error as user burny02 has. But like chewitt says, it probably isn't possible on the pi4 without sudo

You may want to try my plugin, it uses Nvidia Game stream instead of Steam Link: GitHub - veldenb/plugin.program.moonlight-qt: A launcher and updater for running Moonlight-qt on LibreELEC/Raspberry Pi 4 systems.

I may test this again now I've moved to V10

I know this has been asked before, but it's been a few months so... any update on a workaround for the raspberry pi 4? I am pretty happy since I ditched raspbian in favor of LibreELEC, but having steamplay working on the Pi was pretty neat.

Is dual booting raspbian/libreelec my only option here? I had a look and it seems like a PITA to get dual boot working on the Pi. Any suggestions?

Hello,

Thank you all for these awesome solutions and updates.

I am simply posting this to suggest a new way i found, to stream Steam Big Picture from your host pc to Libreelec/kodi on Raspberry pi.

so i found these two projects/repos :

Kodi 19 Moonlight launcher :: https://github.com/veldenb/plugin.program.moonlight-qt

Sunshine is a Game stream host for Moonlight ::   https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

so sunshine on my windows pc with an AMD GPU (no Nvidea Stream app ) and moonlight running in a docker in the raspberry pi.

for installation :

Sunshine = go to releases and dowload the .zip and run as admin and read the docs

Moonlight = works for Pi4 & Pi3 follow the README , thats what i did .

Setup :

Raspberry Pi 3b with Libreelec 10.

Benefits :

easier to install the plugin and update it

works to share desktop screen to the the PI

Gaming video quality was not extra but playable

Hi,

I want to thank everyone here for their efforts and to share what ultimately worked for me.
SBC: pi 4, 4gb ram
OS: Linux LibreELEC 5.10.110
SteamLink version: steamlink-rpi3-1.2.0.241.tar.gz
Audio: HDMI PCM stereo

Followed OP's directions:

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I wanted to try steamlink without reinstalling anything, so after about an hour of screwing around here is how I got it working.

This only makes changes within /storage/steamlink , nothing else is touched. If you do not have at least a novice understanding of linux shell or don't fully understand the commands here DO NOT ATTEMPT.

First thing we download the newest Steamlink and extract it (run on rpi)

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cd /storage
wget "$(wget -q -O - http://media.steampowered.com/steamlink/rpi/public_build.txt)"
tar -zxf steamlink-rpi3-1.2.0.241.tar.gz

Next we need to download the missing libs that aren't included in this or libreelec itself. These commands might work within the rpi itself but I did them on my desktop.

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curl --header 'Host: director.downloads.raspberrypi.org' --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0' --header 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8' --header 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header 'DNT: 1' --header 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' 'http://director.downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_full/images/raspbian_full-2018-11-15/2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.zip' --output '2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.zip'
unzip 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.zip
rm -f 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.zip
mkdir x
mount -o loop,ro,offset=50331648 -t ext4 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.img x
cd x
for i in libpng16.so.16 libicui18n.so.57 libicuuc.so.57 libicudata.so.57 libX11-xcb.so.1 libX11.so.6 libXext.so.6 libxcb.so.1 libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 libXau.so.6 libXdmcp.so.6 libxcb-xkb.so.1 libbsd.so.0; do cp "$(find -name $i)" .. ; done
cd ..
umount x
rmdir x

Now we have extracted all the libs we need from raspbian, next step is to transfer them into steamlink's /lib folder (the hostname will be different for your setup)

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scp lib* root@rpi3:/storage/steamlink/lib/

Next we need to install the steamlink udev rules, but udev is readonly, so we just overlay it (run from rpi)

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mkdir /storage/steamlink/overlay_work
mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/lib/udev/rules.d,upperdir=/storage/steamlink/udev/rules.d/,workdir=/storage/steamlink/overlay_work /lib/udev/rules.d
udevadm trigger

Now the steamlink.sh that comes with it is not geared for libreelec, so copy this one over it

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This worked well except that I had no audio output at all the following modifications were required:

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Audio didn't work. I figured it was because I was testing with a linux host but it didn't work in windows either.

To fix add this to your config.txt

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mount -o remount,rw /flash
nano /flash/config.txt
### add this then reboot
dtparam=audio=on

Then use this new steamlink.sh that does the udev stuff automatically and loads pulseaudio before steamlink

Which led me to getting garbled sound on the analogue audio jack only, adding the following lines in the steamlink.sh file:

# start pulseaudio
echo 'starting pulseaudio'
pulseaudio -k 2>/dev/null
cat /etc/pulse/default.pa | sed 's/^\(load-module module-udev-detect\|load-module module-detect\)/\1 tsched=0/' > /storage/steamlink/pulse_default.pa
pulseaudio -D -n -F "$TOP/pulse_default.pa"
# The next line is used for setting the audio output device. To obtain a list of posible values
# run 'pulseaudio -d', then 'pactl list sinks' which will list all availible output devices, use 
# the name: field of the desired output as the argument for the following command. 
pactl set-default-sink alsa_output.1.hdmi-stereo

And that's it, works perfectly!