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@emerytech emerytech released this 25 Jul 23:50
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Send files to the box from your phone — and the screen preview works again.

  • Send a file to your box. A new card on the Console tab: pick anything on
    your phone — a ROM, a save, a PDF, a photo — and it lands in
    ~/Downloads/Couchside on the box. Big files are fine; they stream straight
    across rather than being held in memory. On the desktop, Show on box opens
    that folder on the TV so you can get at what you just sent.
  • The screen preview is fixed. If you had ever switched between Game Mode
    and the desktop, the preview would quietly stop updating — a stale picture, or
    nothing at all, taking about nine seconds to give up each time. It was aiming
    at the session you had left, which sticks around after it ends. The box now
    checks whether that session is genuinely still running, so the preview follows
    you between Game Mode and the desktop.
  • Preview frames arrive about 2.4x faster — roughly two seconds down to
    under one — so the Screen card feels far less sluggish.
  • Windows: pairing from the app works. Tapping your PC in "Scan for boxes"
    used to fail with unauthorized — the PC had no way to show you a PIN, so the
    only ways in were the QR page or typing the token by hand. Now it shows a
    six-digit PIN on the PC's own screen, same as a Steam Deck.
  • Windows: a fix for the missing Pad tab. Some .exe installs shipped
    without the driver file the virtual controller needs, so the box reported no
    gamepad support and the app hid the Pad tab entirely. Builds can no longer be
    made that way. If your Pad tab is missing, reinstall with the current
    CouchsideSetup.exe.
  • Coming from before 2.9.53, you also get: the trackpad no longer goes dead
    after the phone sits idle, and on Windows your Epic, GOG and Xbox / Game Pass
    games appear next to Steam.