Raspberry Pi Streaming Machine

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Is there a way I can use my Raspberry Pi like a Steam Link? I want to be able to use an Xbox 360 controller for some of my games and I would like to be able to watch Netflix. (So I can sell my Xbox for computer parts) What can I use? If I used SteamOS could I still watch Netflix from it with a Xbox remote?

[manikyath]

you can use a raspberry pi like an nvidia shield, which actually works pretty dang well.

 

if anyone can bring up a way to make it become steam link, i'm curious as well.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

you can use a raspberry pi like an nvidia shield, which actually works pretty dang well.

 

if anyone can bring up a way to make it become steam link, i'm curious as well.

My issue is that I don't have an NVidia GPU so I cant use that feature...

[manikyath]

Just now, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

My issue is that I don't have an NVidia GPU so I cant use that feature...

its one of the reasons i went for nvidia

[TubsAlwaysWins]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

its one of the reasons i went for nvidia

Yeah... Im between a r9 390 because it is more powerful or a GTX 970 for that feature

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Yeah... Im between a r9 390 because it is more powerful or a GTX 970 for that feature

eh, sit it out until the next generation rolls out, both sides are promising great things to happen, so it may get interesting.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Just now, manikyath said:

eh, sit it out until the next generation rolls out, both sides are promising great things to happen, so it may get interesting.

Im waiting out the next generation so prices will drop on current generation. 

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Im waiting out the next generation so prices will drop on current generation. 

it does surprise me that someone reverse engineered the shield stuff to work on the pi, but no one did it for steam link yet.

 

that means nvidia must be doing something right with the shields, i guess?

[TubsAlwaysWins]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

it does surprise me that someone reverse engineered the shield stuff to work on the pi, but no one did it for steam link yet.

 

that means nvidia must be doing something right with the shields, i guess?

I guess. I know (or at least I think i do) that SteamOS will act as a steam link

[manikyath]

Just now, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

I guess. I know (or at least I think i do) that SteamOS will act as a steam link

steamOS isnt arm compatible tho. unless you want to try and get your hands on the source, and try and compile it on the pi

[TubsAlwaysWins]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

steamOS isnt arm compatible tho. unless you want to try and get your hands on the source, and try and compile it on the pi

Poo. I could go for the Ghetto Shield approach

[manikyath]

13 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Poo. I could go for the Ghetto Shield approach

its actually not that ghetto, its just a matter of hooking it up to some kind of UI (emulationstation could do) and its pretty dang seamless.