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GabeCubeAura now has Audio Sync, turning game and system audio into real-time animations across the Steam Machine’s 17 LEDs. Everything is processed locally.

I originally planned one simple audio visualizer. There are now 10 patterns. Try them out and find yours.

Every pattern can use built-in palettes such as Sapphire for a Steam-like look, custom colours, the game’s artwork, or live colours captured with Screen Sync.

https://i.redd.it/ztd2ruruwith1.gif

Audio Sync is the main addition, but GabeCubeAura 1.3.2 also brings:

• 9 one-click lighting presets, from Focus and Essential to Immersive, Festive, and Lights out
• Artwork colour intensity, so washed-out game art can produce stronger colours
• 3 selectable icon styles for the existing weather and temperature indicator beside the SteamOS clock
• a real Lights out preset that keeps the bar dark even during downloads, while still allowing the critical red safety warning
• an optional calibration mode for more consistent brightness

Existing users can open:

GabeCubeAura → Updates → Check now

Otherwise, the Stable channel checks automatically every 24 hours.

For a new installation:

Decky Settings → Developer → Install Plugin from ZIP → select GabeCubeAura-v1.3.2.zip

If the Developer page is missing, enable Developer Mode under Decky Settings → General first.

At this point, I’m running out of reasonable things to make 17 LEDs do, which probably means the next idea will be completely unreasonable.

As always, your feedback is always appreciated!

Remember when we all first got our hands on the Deck and started rubbing the trackpad just to feel the haptics click as we moved around? Well, why stop there right? So I made it a feature.

**Spindeck** replaces the Deck's home screen with a big rotary wheel of your games. Touch and rotate the trackpad in a circle motion and the wheel spins, and every game clicks past with Steam's own haptic tick, like a physical dial. It's weirdly satisfying, honestly I spin it even when I'm not picking a game.

What it does:

- 🎡 Circle-spin your library (left or right trackpad), D-pad works too

- 📳 Haptic detents while you spin, adjustable strength

- 🔤 Big letter popup when browsing your whole library A–Z, so fast spins don't get you lost

- 🎲 Press Y for a "Today's game?" roulette (for when you own and installed so many games and don't know what to play), lands in a few seconds even with huge libraries

- ✏️ Your own corner text + accent colour, so it feels like *your* Deck

- ⬇️ Press down and Steam's normal What's New / Friends / Recommended is still there

- 📟 And a little dial odometer that quietly counts every turn you've ever spun. Post your number 👀

It doesn't change any Steam settings or controller layouts. Uninstall it and everything is exactly as before.

It installs through Decky's developer mode:

Decky → Settings → enable Developer mode → Developer tab → Install Plugin from URL →

https://github.com/justinca92/spindeck/releases/download/v1.1.2/spindeck-1.1.2.zip

GitHub: https://github.com/justinca92/spindeck

Free and open source. Tested on Steam Deck OLED in game mode (LCD reports welcome!). It relies on Steam's internal UI, so a Steam update could break it, in which case it just falls back to the normal home screen.

Would love feedback, especially on how the haptics feel on your Deck.

Hellooo,

I recently got a ROG Xbox Ally after having a Steam Deck LCD since release. I did try Windows for a few days (hours, to be honest...) and eventually just installed Bazzite and haven't looked back since. However, I did get inspired by some aspects of the designs and layouts of Xbox and Windows for the TV.

So, since my workplace is forcing me to get used to AI to keep my CV strong as a tech consultant, I decided to vibecode two ideas I thought of.

One is a clean and readable game overview to enjoy from the sofa (but also handheld) with my most important thing to know before playing a game on a busy week... how much time do I want to spend on it.

Game Glance: big detail cards, all the fun stuff (achievements, played time, description) in the overview including a progress bar approximation based on time played and HLTB info. This plugin should work with any SteamOS device? But honestly I only tried it with my Ally and my Steam Deck.

My second inspiration was the Govee lights I have on my TV and the fact that the Ally has RGB (useless but so fun, not gonna lie). How doable would it be to make the RGB sticks behave similar to the TV lights? Well, apparently it works quite well and it is fun!

Ambideck: capture your screen when playing and match the RGB colors to each side of the screen, some basic settings I thought could make sense (match game art, brightness, docked mode, etc). I only have had chance to test it with my Ally so this one I do not know if it works with other devices... it would be cool to make it compatible though.

I genuinely am unsure if anyone cares about this but I've had fun with them and a friend told me to share it, so here they are!

NEW FROM AI SLOP CO! a super simple way to use usb ethernet gadget mode: ETHERDECK is here with a fun new way to use steam link on your various target devices that support usb 3.0 , Macbooks, Ipads, Android doohickies! anything that runs steam link and has a usb 3.0 port is now your bigger screen! https://github.com/philosiraptor/etherdeck