u/MEchoPark

I've been struggling for the last days with implementing a sleep button as a Sunshine Application to suspend my Steam Machine (host). My client is steam deck and I'm running Moonlight.

Currently, I can wake my steam machine via moonlight, but I would like to have an application next to desktop called Sleep Cube so I can send my Machine to sleep when I'm doing playing.

I'm not very technical but I've researched a lot and my understanding is that this can be done via detached commands on sunshine. I've tried systemctl suspend, then realised that for flatpaks I need to use flatpak-spawn -- for sunshine to be able to execute the command. No matter what I try, every time I click on sleep cube the stream starts again and the machine won't go to sleep.

I even tried making the script send an API to moon deck buddy, which has a sleep function that works, but still no luck.

Something very important is that all my scripts work on Konsole and they sleep the Machine successfully. I just can't get it to work via sunshine.

This is very fun, but I'm losing my patience as it seems very easy but I can't get it to work. Most tutorials are based on Windows.

Any idea?

Maybe some of you have Linux experience with sunshine.

Before the current logistics and RAM crisis it was rumoured that the steam deck 2 could be coming out in 2028. I know this could get pushed even further due to the current situation.

However, I was thinking that if it dropped around that time and the current €€€ becomes the new normal. That would be a lot of €€€ for yet another piece of Valve hardware in a short of amount of time.

2 years is not that long in the lifecycle of a system. So getting the Steam Machine now makes me a bit hesitant because the Steam Deck 2 would interest me much more.

Have you considered that?

Of course this doesn't apply to people who simultaneously own Xbox, ps5, switch, pc etc. I personally choose to own 2-3 systems max.

Listening to this album made me wonder several times if it was actually made by humans.