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Corin Tucker's Stalker
May 27, 2001


One bullet. One gun. Six Chambers. These are my friends.
I'm curious about how well Steam Link will work for media playback. From what I understand it will mirror any program you add to Steam, so if I can just plug in XBMC/Kodi and go that would be awesome.

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Corin Tucker's Stalker
May 27, 2001


One bullet. One gun. Six Chambers. These are my friends.
My Steam Link arrived yesterday and I'm really impressed with it. Setup was easy. Games look and play great. Handles every non-Steam shortcut program I've tried, including Kodi. Heck, I'm even impressed with the accessories and packaging. It smells nice.

I do have a question for other Link owners using a DS4, though. For now you have to manually turn off the controller by holding the home button for a while. This isn't a huge headache in itself, but when I do this it turns the Link back on. Are you unplugging the Link or taking the controller into another room, or is there something I'm missing?

Now that I think about it, if the Link goes to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity, I can just turn off the controller while the system is still on and let the Link idle out.

Corin Tucker's Stalker fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Nov 14, 2015

Corin Tucker's Stalker
May 27, 2001


One bullet. One gun. Six Chambers. These are my friends.
Getting the DS4 to work was strange, but here's what I did:

- Go into the bluetooth menu
- Put the DS4 in pairing mode
- Using a mouse/whatever click Connect
- Some message appears and the DS4 seems to be paired, but the buttons don't do anything
- Using your mouse/whatever click Connect a second time
- Now, for whatever reason, it works

Corin Tucker's Stalker
May 27, 2001


One bullet. One gun. Six Chambers. These are my friends.
There's one thing I haven't been able to pin down: Is the dongle that comes with the Steam Controller just a straight up bluetooth adapter? I've been meaning to pick one up for my computer so if I can kill two birds with one stone that would be great.

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