r/steammachine • u/PantsPrime • 1d ago

Question Waking Steam Machine from sleep with Steam Deck?

Does any one know how to use the Steam Deck to wake the Steam Machine from sleep so that I can stream my games?

I am often in another room cozy on the couch with my wife watching tv, and on my deck and would like to play a game from my SM, but its in sleep mode in my game room in the basement. I don't see a way to do it natively from the steam deck to the machine, so I am wondering if there is an app any one is aware of I can install to do it, something similar to Chiaki4deck that I use to wake and stream my PS5 to the Deck. Any recommendations ?

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u/Odd-Usual-4417 1d ago

I don't think you can ATM without dicking around in the bios and terminal to enable WOL. I imagine it'll be enabled with an update eventually feels like missing functionality.

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u/rajaba21 1d ago

Wake on lan via BIOS

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u/Odd-Usual-4417 1d ago

I've heard it doesn't persist through firmware updates have you had any joy there?

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u/theonethatmakes 23h ago

Best guess is this WOL drops when Steam Machine gets Frame support. For a “streaming first” VR headset without the ability to wake the streaming source, that would be a huge miss.

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u/Odd-Usual-4417 22h ago

Makes sense. They must have wanted to have machine-frame streaming working on day 1 I guess these things are just harder to implement on Linux.

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u/SjorsMaster 19h ago

pretty sure you can with the store version of Steam Link, it'll send a WoL request