Teleport install on Steam Deck

[zombiefaace]

So I have a Steam Deck, and I have OBS installed. I'd really like to setup Teleport on the Steam Deck in OBS so I can have my main gaming rig with a 2080TI and 5800X 3D doing the encoding. While the Steam Deck is a powerful little machine for what it can do with games, unfortunately it's in my experience not powerful enough to play the game and stream/record it at the same time. I've searched all over Google and can't find any guides on how to setup Teleport, but it does have downloads for Linux, can anyone confirm if it's compatible with Steam OS? And if you have it working can you please share the installation steps so that I can set it up? Thanks!

 

[Shnookms]

Don't know if you got this figured out yet. Just got this working, using it the other way if I'm understanding this correctly. (steam deck is recording my desktop). It works wonderfully and as long as the games are giving you about 5% of your cpu for the teleport stream you should be fine. I'll put a lot of detail into this just in case for someone who might be new.

1. Make sure you switched to desktop when you do this.
2. Go get the teleport plugin and extract the obs-teleport.os file. Example: I extracted the file to my desktop.
3. Right click the file location (somewhere on the desktop in my case) and find and click the option "Open Terminal Here".
4. Enter next line without quotes.
5. sudo mv obs-teleport.os /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.obsproject.Studio/x86_64/stable/a37151ee67ff0b18fee39468d48a4b928ea65e304422007cbf816e0b0fd64e37/files/lib/obs-plugins

This will move the teleport plugin to the proper location.
Reload obs and check your Tools tab, should find teleport there.
This took me a whole after noon to find were the flatpack location was for the plugins.

Hope this helps and let me know if anything goes wrong.

 

[tjellyfish5]

For everyone's future reference: You can install OBS with the built-in Discover app. On the OBS page in The top bar you will see an "Add-ons" button. There you can find OBS Teleport, Without needing to install it through command line.

Once installed, If your video shows up entirely blank, try setting the receiving PC's network to be private network, instead of a public one. Should allow your video to be discovered on the network. This only applies if the receiving computer is a Windows PC, I should note.

For me though, this wasn't enough and the only thing that worked was The firewall on the steam deck. You should probably figure out how to actually let obs through this the steam decks firewall instead of doing what I did, but I have no clue how Linux works so this Is fine for now.

I thought installing this was gonna take a lot more command line and tinkering, but that small add-ons button took me forever to notice.