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It's almost like a Chromecast for your games. It connects to your main computer on your network and can manage Steam remotely. Starting a game streams the audio
by cheald 8y ago
It's almost like a Chromecast for your games. It connects to your main computer on your network and can manage Steam remotely. Starting a game streams the audio and video from the game from your gaming computer to your TV, and returns input back to it, effectively letting any TV in your house become a gaming console if you already have a games-capable machine. Their Steam Link app does similar, except to your phone rather than to a TV.
- saiya-jin 8y agoSounds like connecting TV to PC, which is good if your PC is far from TV, but in my case I use usual HDMI cable with 0 network lag. Plus it can be used for anything that PC does (I don't have any Steam/Valve product on PC)
- Already__Taken 8y agoThen you add kodi to steam and it's a complete media platform you also play games from
- goldenkey 8y agoChromecast and all the other IPV4/6 based wireless HDMI are really intensive and saturate your LAN. I have a wireless HDMI that uses directional infrared and it's quite performant with no resource contention issues.
- washadjeffmad 8y agoThat sounds like a really neat device. In lieu of that, I segregate traffic with VLANs by SSID at home, which helps prevent mDNS spikes and other inconveniences from disrupting the rest of the network. It's pretty common for people to buy into IoT without preparing their networks, and there's no networking hardware that I know of that's a seamless experience for managing what having an IoT integrated home brings. I guess Ubiquiti's Unifi line is pretty close, but it's not what I'd imagine a plugnplay "Google Hub" automated router/switch with SDN manageable from Assistant. Although, I haven't used Google WiFi, so I don't know if it already works like that.