The Steam Link app itself works well enough, but there are definitely some areas that can use more polish. From that point on I have avoided the controller settings screen! I also had to pair the app with my desktop PC again (no big deal). Ultimately I had to uninstall the Steam Link app and reinstall it to start fresh.

I tried going through the button configuration process again in Steam Link but only managed to mess things up worse. Note that they were not messed up in tvOS itself. You must complete it to navigate away from that screen because the Apple TV remote is not usable within the app to navigate back out of the screen.Įven after force quitting the app and restarting it, the app retained the messed up controller settings. This made my controller effectively unusable for Steam Link.Įntering the Setup Controller screen in the Steam Link app on tvOS immediately starts the button configuration process. the d-pad and B buttons) to other controller functions. I tried using the controller to navigate out of that screen, but that assigned the buttons that I tried to navigate with (i.e. This started the button configuration process automatically, and I had no way to back out of the button configuration process.

Purely out of curiosity, I opened the controller settings > Setup Controller screen in Steam Link. Nor could I use my Logitech Harmony remote. I could not use my Apple TV remote to interact with the app when my controller was paired with the Apple TV. The Steam Link app only allows one input device at a time apparently. However I ran into a problem with configuring the controller’s buttons that I could not undo in an obvious way. I recently installed the Steam Link tvOS app to play PC games from Steam on it. Lately I’ve been using an Xbox One controller paired to the Apple TV for playing tvOS games.

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