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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    If you want to use WOL you’ll need an adapter/dock with an Ethernet port.

    Then use nmcli (network manager cli) to accept magic wake-up packets: nmcli c modify "Wired connection 1" 802-3-ethernet.wake-on-lan magic

    See more info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN

    Then you just send a magic packet using your Steam Decks MAC whenever you want it to wake up.

    Note: if you own an OLED Steam Deck technically you can just do this over Bluetooth with a controller instead, because of the hardware update.

    EDIT: looks like 3.7.0 preview has added Bluetooth wake support for LCD models as well!

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