Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit

https://github.com/rcarmo/homekit-steam-user-switcher

54•rcarmo•6mo ago

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wlesieutre•5mo ago

What a bizarre tool, I love it.

rafaqueque•5mo ago

Love the hack.

ellisv•5mo ago

This is beautiful.

pimlottc•5mo ago

What does this actually look like in use?

wlesieutre•5mo ago

This input switcher UI: https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/01/smart...

I don't have a TV with that feature but I assume you can also tell Siri to do it, or assign it to a "scene" to have quicker access to change to a particular user.

bsimpson•5mo ago

So you could have a TV widget on your phone that lists Alice, Bob, and Charlie, and when you pick Bob, his account is signed in on the gaming PC?

rcarmo•5mo ago

Yes

vineyardmike•5mo ago

I’m convinced that Smart Home tech is the biggest missed opportunity in tech. For most people, it’s the closest they’ve come to programming (automation) or customizing technology. As seen here, it’s also the closest thing many people have to an at-home server.

thorncorona•5mo ago

It’s coming. GLMs are the best thing to happen to automation.

ethersteeds•5mo ago

Can someone outline the kind of headless setup this would be used with?

Best I can figure, a TV with a Moonlight client connected to a basement computer running Sunshine, (or similar client/server system) then a homekit command with open steam with the desired account?

BoredPositron•5mo ago

I use a setup like this via moonlight on a appletv when I want to play on the living room tv. The tv of the kids is a Samsung with steam link installed so it's really easy to use for them. I prefer it over classic VMs because you don't have to shuffle around gpus from docker to VMs if you want to play a bit. You can even run multiple headless steam dockers on one gpu for lower requirement games. With a setup like this you can still use the gpus for encoding/decoding tasks in jellyfin while playing.

https://github.com/Steam-Headless/docker-steam-headless

c-hendricks•5mo ago

Interesting, I wrote something similar to switch my computer between the display in the office and the TV, and also switch the audio and disable / enable controllers in the rooms. But just went with a basic API over HTTP, which allowed me to just create shortcuts, and those are available on all my speakers / Apple devices so I can just say "hey siri, tv switcher tv" and it switches over.

It's neat because then everyone with access to your Apple Home can't login to your steam account and run up your credit card with purchases.

rcarmo•5mo ago

You can’t just buy stuff on any Steam PC.

c-hendricks•5mo ago

Not sure what you mean? If you log into a Steam account with saved credit card information, you can most likely buy something.

rcarmo•5mo ago

You can’t purchase over Steam Link, for sure. And I just checked I need to confirm login on desktop mode (can’t even get to payment in big picture mode).

c-hendricks•5mo ago

That's a good point I hadn't considered, Apple forced Valve to disable the Steam Store on their devices running Steam Link.

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Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit

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