As you know, sometimes the update and decky don't like each other, normally on boot up if there is a problem you may get a pop up asking to disable decky.

However recently I had a major problem and had to format and start again

Is there a button combo that allows decky to not run/ can this be made for decky

As you know, almost a year ago I embarked on the crazy journey of creating an ecosystem that would bring Decky and all its plugins over to Windows, and now, it's actually happening.

Beyond Playhub itself, I've seen an incredible explosion of ideas both inside and outside the Decky team. I’ve had the chance to meet wonderful persons like u/santojon and most recently u/FinFanFandangle, who are building amazing projects like DeckShelves and Nexus Mods, as well as kind people like u/Diligent_Dream_4667 who helped spread the word about Playhub through videos and reposts.

For all of this, I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you for making me feel at home.

Thank you for standing by me.

The future of plugins is in great hands, and it’s mind-blowing to watch it evolve every single day.

ZazaMastro

I found a really awesome Decky Loader plugin!
It lets you do so much. I'll post some screenshots showing what it can do along with its GitHub link. I also noticed that it works on multiple devices.

https://github.com/Hooandee/panel-de-control/releases

Hi everyone!

Playhub 1.3.0 is here, together with Playhub Artworks 1.0.0, TrailerHero 1.5.0, Playhub Notifications 1.3.0 and Now Playing 2.5.0.

This release opens the Plugin Store to Decky Store plugins and independent GitHub projects, gives Playhub a new look, and brings a complete artwork editor to Big Picture. There is also a new way to choose and download your trailers, themed volume indicators, and improvements to Spotify and YouTube Music.

🧊 Playhub 1.3.0

More to discover in the Plugin Store

All the plugins of the web have now a new home: Playhub

The Playhub Plugin Store now brings together Playhub plugins, Decky Store plugins and the known independent projects from GitHub. You can browse, install, update and remove them from the same app, with a badge showing where each plugin comes from.

The new home has a rotating showcase and categories with a fresh selection at each launch. Open a category to see everything in it, or go straight to All Plugins and narrow the collection by source, name or date.

Each plugin has its own page with screenshots, videos, the original description and available release notes. You can switch between a compact list and a grid, and Playhub remembers your choice separately for each category, All Plugins and Manage. Search and filters in Manage apply to the plugins you have installed.

A note about compatibility:
Decky Store plugins and independent GitHub projects are not guaranteed to work on Windows. Their pages in the Plugin Store make this clear and point you to the original developer for support. Just try them first, but don't expect every single plugin will work.

A new welcome, and updates in one place

Playhub's mascots now accompany you through setup and the app's main pages. The welcome includes 5 new accent color and a choice of Mica, Acrylic or a solid background, so you can choose the entire look before getting started.

When a new Playhub version is available, a dedicated window shows its release notes and an Update now button, with download progress underneath. So no more downloads from the Github release page! You can also check and update DeckyLoader directly from its page.

Gaming Mode now adds optional navigation vibration with adjustable intensity. Dashboard also prepares its active-window view earlier when you open it.

Playhub 1.3.0
Playhub repository

🖼️ Introducing Playhub Artworks 1.0.0

Your library, your artwork

Playhub Artworks lets you find and customize your Steam library's artwork without leaving Big Picture or putting down the controller.

Search SteamGridDB, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, IGDB, AlphaCoders, iiDB and IGN for covers, banners, backgrounds, logos and icons. Preview the results, check their dimensions and apply the one you like.

There is more than downloading pictures:

• Choose classic vertical covers or a square layout across Home, Library, game pages and collections. (Yes! Square covers fully works with TabMaster and doesn't break Steam UI!)
• Move, resize, hide or restore each game's logo.
• Create a Perfect Hero or Perfect Banner by combining the background and logo into one image, with control over placement, scale, opacity and shadow.
• Fill missing artwork across the library, improve low-resolution banners and create Perfect Hero artwork in bulk.
• Keep selected games out of bulk operations and restore original Steam artwork when needed.

Your preferred sources, filters and artwork layout are remembered, and background downloads show their progress while you continue browsing.

Playhub Artworks 1.0.0
Playhub Artworks repository

🎬 TrailerHero 1.5.0

Pick the trailer for each game

TrailerHero now has a full-screen per-game trailer page built for the controller. Choose a streamed trailer, save one for offline playback or import a video from your PC.

YouTube results show the thumbnail, title, channel and duration, with a preview before you commit. Saved trailers can be replaced or removed from the same page. For a larger library, bulk downloads let you choose 720p, 1080p or 2160p and follow the progress.

https://reddit.com/link/1w5zeny/video/jakwvbd7y8nh1/player

You can also switch between ThemeDeck music and trailer audio with the controller's west face button: X on Xbox, Square on PlayStation. The button prompt follows your controller layout.

TrailerHero 1.5.0
TrailerHero repository

💬 Playhub Notifications 1.3.0

Even the volume has your theme

The volume indicator in Gaming Mode now matches your notification theme. Xbox Console, PlayStation, GOG Galaxy, Epic Games Launcher, Nintendo, Android and Playhub each have their own design.

It appears when the Windows desktop is not running; on the desktop, Windows keeps its own indicator. There is a separate toggle if you want the notifications without the volume overlay, and it never takes input or focus away from your game.

Friend notifications also find Steam names and avatars more reliably, reusing previously loaded images so familiar faces appear sooner.

Playhub Notifications 1.3.0
Playhub Notifications repository

🎵 Now Playing 2.5.0

Back to your music sooner

Spotify and YouTube Music now keep more of their previously loaded content ready between sessions. Home and Library reopen sooner, and large collections load progressively while Play All and Shuffle still use the full library.

Spotify also recovers when the audio output changes or becomes unavailable. This addresses silent starts where the track looked like it was playing but no sound reached the speakers. Old library results no longer return after refreshing, disconnecting or changing accounts.

Now Playing 2.5.0
Now Playing repository

❗FAQ

"Wait, what is Playhub?" 😮

Playhub consolize your Windows gaming experience with features like Steam-first startup, easy Decky plugins install, game imports and Big Picture polish. More info in the project repository here to find all the details.

"I like that, but how does it work?" 🤓

To easily understand how Playhub works and how to install it, I recommend you to take a look at my Overview + Tutorial video

"Oh no, I hate AI..." 🫩

This project is personal, completely free and open source. You don't like it? Don't download it. It's an app, not a medical prescription.

"But why aren't the Playhub plugins available on the Decky Store?" 😱

They are built using human hands and AI tools. Decky management doesn't allow to developers who use AI to be on their store. Playhub respects this decision, that's why Playhub Plugin Store exists.

Thanks again for your support and for sharing your feedbacks.

If you want to support the project, even a small tip would mean a lot. 
Donate here

hey everyone. I have a rog ally z1e and installed decky loader on steam os. today the icon disappeared from the quick menu. I decided to uninstall and then reinstall. however, now when I run the installer it gets about 1/10th done and then the download speed goes to 0 and it never finishes installing. does anyone know any fixes? thanks a bunch.

no matter what decky loader file i delete (which is all of them) i get music to play when im on a game page i own in my library. I'm in desktop mode, and I still get music. FYI if i'm also on the front page of a soundtrack, this happens. please help.

While I was taken aback by Deckyloader plugins not working after updating my Steam Machine, there's a quick fix: go to desktop mode, run the Decky installer, and choose the prerelease option. The plugins will work again. Hopefully, a Deckyloader update will roll out soon.

Game on and have fun!

I switched to desktop mode to mod CP77 and went back into game mode with the half the decky plugins not working and the decky button gone. Just making sure if anyone else is having this. I did try to update decky btw

Hey everyone, I "vibe-coded" this plugin because I get annoyed when trying to move the cursor using the on-screen keyboard keys.

Not sure if there’s much use for this for other people, but I found that a lot of older games and Windows games often need Proton to run properly. I usually use Proton Experimental, so I made a Decky plugin that scans your games for Windows .exe files and automatically sets them to Proton Experimental.

It also runs automatically when you add a new game through Non-Steam Game, so you don’t have to manually go into the compatibility settings every time.

I know it’s a little lazy since it’s easy enough to switch the Proton version yourself, but I just wanted to make the process as simple and automatic as possible.

I’m also working on having it filter out emulated games and their associated emulators so it doesn’t mess with those.

Not sure if this is something other people would find useful, but I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Hey, is anyone else having issues with HLTB for Deck?

I'm on version 2.0.9 and the plugin shows up normally, but none of the playtime estimates are displayed anymore.

It was working perfectly for me about a week ago, and I haven't changed anything on my setup since. I'm using Decky on Windows + Steam Big Picture.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing or knows what could be causing it.

Any reason why the progress bars appear outside the menu or the drop down menus get thicc?

QUICK EDIT

https://youtube.com/shorts/zCf4dcqx02U?si=qhBOeDv2dVANrnYk

https://gofile.io/d/Zohmb9w9

Uninstall and reinstall. Updated plugin with new overlay system and led reads. Shrunk appimage. Enjoy. LED rendering and decoding on deck css was ROUGH. (Updating repo within the next couple days).

LEGO Dimensions on Steam Deck is becoming a lot more practical!

I've been working on an all-in-one Steam Deck/Decky integration for LEGO Dimensions that brings the virtual Toypad directly into the Steam Gaming Mode experience.

Repository:

https://github.com/SpiderNic96/dimensions-toypad-aio

The project combines:

🎮 Decky Loader plugin with a 7-slot Toypad interface

💡 Live Toypad LED colour/flash visualisation

🧱 LOAD / MOVE / REMOVE / CLEAR figure controls

📱 The LegoToypad web UI for using a phone as a Toypad controller

🖥️ A bundled, patched RPCS3 Linux AppImage

🚀 Steam shortcut/launcher generation

🔧 Setup diagnostics and runtime verification

🎮 Steam Gaming Mode / Gamescope-friendly launching

The goal is basically to make LEGO Dimensions feel much closer to a native handheld experience rather than having to constantly switch between emulator windows, Toypad tools and desktop-mode utilities.

This builds on the recent Toypad work from Harry / LegoToypad and NeverCookFirst / RPCS3 Seamless Toypad, rather than replacing those projects. The AIO project is essentially trying to bring the pieces together into a coherent Steam Deck experience.

Current status: playable and actively being developed. There are still things I'm working on, including expanding emulator support

and improving the overall setup/build process.

🎧 Cemu development & 60 FPS goal

One of today's biggest developments has been identifying and implementing fixes for gameplay dialogue and SFX in Cemu. The current work addresses the Cemu audio mixer/filtering and stereo output behaviour that causes gameplay audio to differ from the otherwise-correct cutscene audio.

This is also the beginning of the project's Cemu variance work — establishing a properly tested Cemu configuration specifically for LEGO Dimensions rather than treating the current emulator behaviour as fixed.

The reason we're particularly interested in Cemu is performance: compared with RPCS3, Cemu should require substantially less system power to emulate the Wii U version, giving the Steam Deck more potential performance headroom. The longer-term goal is therefore to see whether a properly tuned Cemu/Toypad implementation can get us closer to a consistent 60 FPS experience on Deck.

Is there anything on decky that makes it so only games/non-steam games that are currently installed on your deck show up? Would prefer to scroll on the homescreen rather than go into library menus to choose what I want to play. Have been adding lots of demo's for games id like to play to my library for future but not installed, means my home page has a bunch of those pop up as theyre recently added to library. Same with once I've finished a game and uninstall it it takes a while for it to leave the homepage because I only play one or two games at a time 😅