I have steam up and running on my main daily driver ( currently endeavour OS, but I also have a dual boot to a Windows with steam also working if needed, but just about everything I’m playing lately is working great on Linux).
I have a TV connected to a older HP PC that acts as my media center. It runs Kodi on Linux mint. Both computers are wired ethernet connected. Is there a way I can stream/play games from my daily driver to my computer that’s connected to the TV? Is there a Kodi add-on I could use? Do I just need to install steam on my Linux mint? I don’t have a steam link device. I did some brief reading on steam remote play and it looks like that’s more designed to share with others not just stream from my own account to another computer.
Currently My daily driver is actually close enough to my TV that I could even have a keyboard/controller connected to the daily driver and just stream the video if that was better. But in the future I may want to rearrange rooms, so ideally I guess it would be best to have the controller through my HTPC as well.
Any advice on how to best approach this?
Steam has streaming built right in. You literally just turn both machines on, start Steam on the PC connected to your TV, and you should see your library right there in the Steam client. You can just hit the ‘Play’ button and it’ll stream it directly. This is the easiest option. There is also Steam Link which is an even more paired down streaming client that runs in Big Picture mode and makes everything super easy.
Some people may say Moonlight or Parsec for a better experience, but that’s subjective. Steam Streaming directly is the simplest way to do it.
Perfect, I’ll try it out. Sounds like no reason to get a steam link, and that what I have should work well enough
Steam Link as a name is confusing as well. There is a Steam Link device, and then Steam Link the app. Both do the same thing.
Yeah, you don’t need a Steam Link (device), you just need the Steam Link app installed on your HTPC. Or, you could fully install Steam, which has the Steam Link functionality built in. If you’re on the same network, you get the option to “stream” games from another PC. That would let you locally run games that your HTPC is capable of running, and stream the ones that are too demanding.
Minimum requirements for running Steam Link are quite low, so I bet your HTPC is capable.