I’m convinced that Smart Home tech is the biggest missed opportunity in tech. For most people, it’s the closest they’ve come to programming (automation) or customizing technology. As seen here, it’s also the closest thing many people have to an at-home server.
Interesting, I wrote something similar to switch my computer between the display in the office and the TV, and also switch the audio and disable / enable controllers in the rooms. But just went with a basic API over HTTP, which allowed me to just create shortcuts, and those are available on all my speakers / Apple devices so I can just say "hey siri, tv switcher tv" and it switches over.
It's neat because then everyone with access to your Apple Home can't login to your steam account and run up your credit card with purchases.
Can someone outline the kind of headless setup this would be used with?
Best I can figure, a TV with a Moonlight client connected to a basement computer running Sunshine, (or similar client/server system) then a homekit command with open steam with the desired account?
I use a setup like this via moonlight on a appletv when I want to play on the living room tv. The tv of the kids is a Samsung with steam link installed so it's really easy to use for them. I prefer it over classic VMs because you don't have to shuffle around gpus from docker to VMs if you want to play a bit. You can even run multiple headless steam dockers on one gpu for lower requirement games. With a setup like this you can still use the gpus for encoding/decoding tasks in jellyfin while playing.
I don't have a TV with that feature but I assume you can also tell Siri to do it, or assign it to a "scene" to have quicker access to change to a particular user.
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It's neat because then everyone with access to your Apple Home can't login to your steam account and run up your credit card with purchases.
Best I can figure, a TV with a Moonlight client connected to a basement computer running Sunshine, (or similar client/server system) then a homekit command with open steam with the desired account?
https://github.com/Steam-Headless/docker-steam-headless
I don't have a TV with that feature but I assume you can also tell Siri to do it, or assign it to a "scene" to have quicker access to change to a particular user.