Submitted 6 months ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
Steam Deck Specific changes:
Rest of the changelog is here and is mostly desktop client improvements
Per-device Bluetooth wake is huge for me! My main earbuds have Multi-Service Support and if I forget to turn off Bluetooth on my deck it always wakes up when I take the buds out for something else
Same, recently on a work trip I finally got in to my hotel and found my steam deck hot and on 1% battery. My headphones had woken it from sleep earlier in the day and it had sat there burning itself away. This is great news.
Doesn’t this essentially integrate similar functionality to what one of the Decky plugins had been used for?
Sort of, if you mean the controller tools one. I believe when that was working it would show battery percentage. The Bluetooth plugin does not. So this is more general.
It also brings the feature of waking the deck via Bluetooth which is super convenient if you use it docked.
I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but they have been making a lot of changes targeted at the docked experience lately, and I have a theory that is because they are getting close to announcing a Steam Deck Controller.
Wake via Bluetooth isn’t new, the OLED model has always supported it (the LCD doesn’t due to hardware). This just lets you disable it for specific devices that you don’t want to wake the Deck.
The new list of Bluetooth devices in the quick access menu replaced the regular Bluetooth plugin too I think.
I need to do more testing when I get home, but I think I can uninstall both the Bluetooth plugin and controller tools now.
So like, if I had a Dualsense controller paired to it, I could wake the SteamDeck by pushing the PS button like I would with the PS5?
I’m loving the steam deck more with every update!
I think the device needs to support battery reporting right?
Hopefully great for Xbox Controllers. Anyone happen to have a screenshot of how it looks?
I’ll check it when I get home if no one else has. I know the Decky plugins controller tools worked for checking the battery in my stadia controllers before, so I’m hoping this will have replaced the need for that plugin.
Is this battery info also for desktop?
The battery info was already working for me on desktop mode. It even has a nice bubble when the battery of the controller is low.
Glad that this is coming to game mode, too.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The bluetooth wakeup sounds nice since my power button refuses to work sometimes
aniki@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Kinda sucks with multi-homed devices like my pixel bud pros because it constantly wakes up the deck until i disconnect them.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I use my deck every day whether I’m just half playing an idler or plating something more engaging but my power button is struggling. I’ve done a bunch of the “fix it at home” things so I just hope it doesn’t become completely unusable… I could send it back for repair but then I’d be without my deck for weeks…
mishielda1234@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I tried to use mine as well but found the latency to be too much to handle
SuperIce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I always use it when docked. Important to note that the LCD version does not support Bluetooth wake though.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah I know :(