Pinging the console throws an error, but connecting works

[IrealiTY]

Hey, hi, thanks for your mods to the remote play app :D

Had to remove this section from the script to get it to work, not sure why i can't ping my console from the steam deck (other network devices work fine)

ping -c 3 -w 30 xxx.xxx.xxx.xx &>/dev/null
sleep 1

also, I suggest maybe adding a longer sleep command after the wake-up (I use 4 :) )

[streetpea]

The ping command will wait up to 30 seconds for availability already with a minimum of 3 seconds, continuing once 3 successful pings (1 every second) are received. If the device is not up the ping command won’t return until later. As soon as it’s up for 3 seconds, it will return. If ping isn’t working for you I’d suggest a sleep of 10 seconds to be safe … I have found 4 to be inadequate. In general, ping is a much better solution than just sleep. I am going to upgrade the ping to an even better solution later (ie using the Chiaki discover protocol to send a properly formatted packet since that port has to be open for remote play to work). Until then, I’ll just leave this as a workaround for people that ping doesn’t work for. (I.e The workaround is deleting the ping command and the two sleep 1 and replacing with sleep 10).

[IrealiTY]

Yeah, I need to check why exactly ping is not working, I woke up the console manually and pinged from the deck to make the tests and got not response - I do think it must be something on my end, but it's good to know that it still works and yo u can connect nonetheless.

[streetpea]

You should be able to update now by (either updating the flatpak in the discover store or run flatpak update in the console) and going back through https://streetpea.github.io/chiaki4deck/setup/automation/ to update your launch script. It should work for you now as it no longer requires ping. Let me know how it goes.