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.
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.
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.
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.
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Huh? It has been offering me to do that for quite a while now. I think I even used it once or twice.
You could do remote installs with games before, but not demos as far as I know.
Maybe this is new to the deck, but Steam has had the feature itself for years.
