Steam Beta adds Bluetooth device battery info for Steam Deck, various desktop PC updates
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Another round of Steam Client Beta updates are here with Steam Deck and Desktop PC seeing lots of improvements and bug fixes, and it's especially nice for people using Bluetooth on Steam Deck.

Steam Deck Specific changes:

  • Show battery information for connected Bluetooth devices under Settings->Bluetooth and in the Quick Access menu.
  • Added a per-device toggle to Settings->Bluetooth that controls whether a device is allowed to wake Steam Deck from sleep.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause the UI to show stale data for Bluetooth devices.

Rest of the changelog is here and is mostly desktop client improvements

  •  Fubarberry   ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) OPEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    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.

    edit: And the plugin for managing what devices wake on Bluetooth connection, so 3 plugins total.

      •  Fubarberry   ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) OPEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        Looks like it does, I can use the list of Bluetooth devices in the QAM to quick connect to Bluetooth devices that don’t auto connect, and the controller’s battery shows up in both the QAM device list and the full Bluetooth menu.

        My stadia controllers don’t support BLE and can’t wake the deck, but I have a Bluetooth keyboard that can. Going to Bluetooth menu in settings and selecting the keyboard gives me an option to disable wake functionality for it.

        So yeah, looks like I can uninstall all 3 Bluetooth Decky plugins I use.