Steam Link 17+

I am consistently delighted and disappointed by Valve. Something like Steam Link comes along and its 1000% what I need for my setup. The steam link performance and setup are simple and it works great! Except a VERY obvious issue which basically makes the entire effort a complete waste. The area your mouse can move is like 50% of the screen. On the host you'll see the mouse moving and it can't get to the bottom, left or right of the screen to select menu items. Also the top of my remote client display is cut off (black). So on the host you see your mouse moving in 50% of the available display, and on the client its the same but also maybe 10% of the top of the display is black. So what's the point? I'm using a 2020 16" MBP with retina scaling on. It's a feature I'm not turning off for you Valve so fix your app please! It has so much promise.

When accessing Windows 10 Steam from my MBP, if I have to drop to the desktop the mouse and keyboard work fine until I have to deal with some kind of dialog box that disables the remote controls. It doesn't freeze anything, I just can't control the mouse or keyboard. This happens when trying to select a sys tray icon to close, or install/uninstalling software where a installer/uninstaller dialog pops up. I have to walk over to the PC and control it. Once I get away from the offending dialog, I can control things again. REALLY annoying.

All the people asking to make the app work with your pc off don’t know how technology works, the point is not to run games off of your phone, but to provide a link that turns the phone into a computer monitor, along with controls. And this app does that perfectly, 5 stars from me. It’s entirely illogical to take off stars just because there is no impossible wake button, remember steam makes the game, they don’t make your computer, so to ask for a "wake button” is simply saying you are willing to personally modify your computer in order to turn it on with your phone; THE STEAM CLIENT DOESN’T HAVE THAT POWER OVER YOUR PC, and like all applications, it forcefully quits when you turn off your pc. And there, I’ve debunked the only reason this gets bad reviews for everyone. Good day.