Does anyone know what could be causing my Deck to wake up? I’m thinking it has to do with the new feature to wake on Bluetooth activation, but the controllers are not even on when this happens.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Good point, I should have added that info up front.

    I’m running stock SteamOS, and it’s an early LCD model. It even happens when I’m home alone.

    • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Hey, speaking of “early lcd models”, how is your power button holding up? Mine is getting flaky. Have to press it a couple of times, maybe tilt it a little, to get it to work.

      • Zoot@reddthat.com
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Is that what’s happening?! I just thought it was being a pain in the ass when I would try to put it to sleep. I know my battery is fucked, an I should really open it up, replace a few things an clean it up haha.

        What’s this about waking in Bluetooth though??? Been wanting that forever but I thought it was an oled only thing

      • rgalex@lemmy.world
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Omg, this is happening to me too, since a few weeks ago. I’m afraid it may stop working some day.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Haha yeah, always good to list out as many possibly relevant variables as you can with a bug report =P

      And I’ve been running Bazzite on my Deck for a while now, but I also just don’t use any BT thingies.

      But uh ok, so… I am not aware of any significant differences in terms of hardware between the various models of Deck that … would factor in here… the OLED models basically just have a slightly different shell / internal form factor, obviously the OLED screen, and then a bigger battery.

      So… given that we’ve got other reports here, of the same thing, … either all of you are getting uh BT linking attempts from neighbors…

      … Or, probably, if you’re all on stock SteamOS… its probably just bugged on Steam’s end.

      Meaning that unfortunately unless you want to go to the SteamOS github, identify the actual problem with the BT driver, and then fix it in a way that doesn’t break a bunch of other stuff you didn’t realize that ‘fix’ also touched… yeah, I dunno lol.

      Maybe there is a way to go into Desktop mode, there’s a setting to specifically disable ‘wake on BT activity’?

      I don’t know.

      The… whole problem with BT in general is that it is a security nightmare to try to implement on linux… to keep everything in the OS secure and also working at the same time.

      Like, as best I can tell, Valve would basically have to do I think Wayland’s job for them and solve what has been a long running headache/struggle session for just linux in general… it gets insanely esoteric and complicated when you try to dive into what exactly is even going wrong, who should be responsible to fix it, and then a lot of devs just say no, its not fixable.

      BlueTooth is very popular, but it is extremely problematic from a security standpoint, because it basically just demands access to a ton of very low level system stuff and refuses to be normal if it doesn’t have all of them basically all the time, and uh, linux, unlike windows/android, has actual security standards, and unlike mac/iphone, has to also be able to run on basically all hardware that exists.