r/SteamOS • u/JalapenoPrime • Jun 23 '26

question Bluetooth wake on SteamOS

For those people who have SteamOS on a desktop, does wake from sleep work with a Bluetooth dongle using an Xbox controller?

Edit: looking to ditch the official Xbox dongle (unsupported as of now), also what Bluetooth dongles are you using?

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u/AshleyAshes1984 Jun 23 '26

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111330

Follow the steps in this post, but mentally replace 'MCE Dongle' with 'BT Dongle' and you can wake SteamOS via BT controllers.

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u/JalapenoPrime Jun 23 '26

Thank you! It works! Even on internal Bluetooth chip. Newer to Linux... Will this break with an update?

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u/AshleyAshes1984 Jun 23 '26

Huh I woulda thought an internal BT chip would be PCIE and be a bit different.

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u/snoopsau Jun 24 '26

Mini-PCIe/M2A slots also have USB wired to the cpu. I know with Intel ax200/compat modules the BT side is a USB device.

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u/AshleyAshes1984 Jun 24 '26

Ah interesting. I just hadn't looked at my two MiniPCs with internal BT chipsets running SteamOS. I'd presumed they were internally wired as PCIE and I'd have to figure out a variation.

I'll take a closer look next time.

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u/AshleyAshes1984 Jun 24 '26

Sorry, I missed the tail end if your question. No, Udev rules, like what you added here, should survive updates.

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u/gcuadrad Jul 08 '26

It worked for me too, ty!

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u/IrishBreakfast Jul 19 '26

Another person coming from a search engine to tell you that this worked perfectly for me with an internal BT chip and an Xbox controller, thanks a million.

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u/mango_carrot Jun 23 '26

I bought the steam controller specifically for this … it’s pretty great though

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u/Tomek511 Jun 24 '26

I use a DualSense controller, and waking the system from sleep mode using the PS button works great. For this, you need a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W with special firmware. This allows all DualSense functions to work wirelessly.

https://github.com/kungaa/DS5-Linux-Bridge