Use your Steam Deck as an expensive game controller

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  • GadgetDeck

    Use your Steam Deck as an input device on another computer

  • steamcontroller-linux-kernel

    Linux Kernel Driver for Valve Steam Controller

  • Btw, you might be able to use https://github.com/cvuchener/steamcontroller-linux-kernel to see what the Steam Controller USB behaviour looks like.

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  • usbip-win

    USB/IP for Windows

  • Another thing to look into: Linux usbip. There's also a Windows server/client so that would work on the PC side. And then of course you can just use WiFi to make it wireless.

  • usbipd-win

    Windows software for sharing locally connected USB devices to other machines, including Hyper-V guests and WSL 2.

  • For server (e.g. machine that provides devices), https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win is a bit more mature - they grabbed the driver infrastructure from virtualbox to handle the issues with code signing.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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