steam-groundstations

OpenIPC Steam Deck Groundstation

Table of contents

Overview Installing OpenIPC software on camera module Unlocking Steam Deck & installing dependencies Acquiring/compiling wfb_ng binaries & libraries Share key pairs betsween gs/drone Launch gst-launch1.0 command to decode stream Streamline usage on Steam Deck Latency test methodology & result TODO

Overview

Caveats

If Steam Deck performs a system update, some or all changes may be lost and have to be redone (to be tested). To overcome this, rwfus can be used: https://github.com/ValShaped/rwfus (not tested)

Supported and/or tested devices

Steam Deck LCD with rtl8822ce (tested working, show rssi in wfb-cli gs) Ugreen rtl8812bu (tested, working. Does not show rssi in wfb-cli gs) ssc338q+imx415 (NOR16MB) GK7205V300+IMX335 to be tested

Installing OpenIPC software on camera module

• Setup viable majestic configuration
• Setup viable wfb_ng configuration

Unlocking Steam Deck & installing dependencies

Set your password using 'passwd'

Unlock 70hz: https://github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamDeck-RefreshRateUnlocker

sudo steamos-readonly disable

sudo touch /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg.conf

sudo bash -lic 'echo "keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com" >> /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/gpg.conf'

sudo pacman-key --init

sudo pacman-key --populate

sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux

sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys

sudo pacman --sync --noconfirm base-devel glibc linux-api-headers libpcap libsodium python-setuptools python-pip python-pyroute2 python-future python-twisted python-pyserial iw python-virtualenv net-tools python-msgpack bc linux-neptune-61 linux-neptune-61-headers dkms

#build rtl8812au cd

git clone https://github.com/svpcom/rtl8812au.git

cd rtl8812au

make

sudo ./dkms-install.sh

cd

git clone https://github.com/svpcom/wfb-ng.git

cd wfb-ng

make bdist

cd dist

tar -xvf *

sudo cp -rf etc /

sudo cp -rf usr /

sudo cp -rf lib/systemd/system/* /lib/systemd/system/

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

get default gs.key

wget https://github.com/OpenIPC/steam-groundstations/raw/master/gs.key

sudo mv gs.key /etc/

wget https://github.com/OpenIPC/steam-groundstations/raw/master/master.cfg

sudo mv -rf master.cfg /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/wfb_ng/conf/

sudo systemctl start wifibroadcast@gs

sudo systemctl status wifibroadcast@gs

Launch gst-launch1.0 command to decode stream

fpv.sh contains some examples of helper functions for launching gstreamer directly from Steam gamemode. The gstreamer command will work with both audio and video.

Streamline usage on Steam Deck

How to add a non-steam game to steam deck: https://www.dexerto.com/tech/how-to-add-non-steam-games-to-steam-deck-2082992/

Resources, Command library & explanation

https://github.com/OpenIPC/wiki/blob/master/en/gpio-settings.md gpio set/clear/toggle 23/24 https://github.com/OpenIPC/mavfwd https://github.com/OpenIPC/wiki/blob/master/en/fpv-step-by-step-guide.md https://openipc.org/majestic-endpoints https://docs.qgroundcontrol.com/master/en/qgc-user-guide/getting_started/download_and_install.html

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qgroundcontrol