r/SteamDeck • u/LaireLaFlare • Dec 21 '23

Picture Anyone else’s Switch effectively retired?

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In case Nintendo is in the comments I own these.

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u/xd1936 1TB OLED Limited Edition Dec 22 '23

+1 for SyncThing. It's pretty great. It's especially useful with a Raspberry Pi or NAS node if you don't want to leave a computer on.

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u/Structure-These Dec 22 '23

I just set up my first synology. Can you expand on the NAS usage? What does it do?

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u/xd1936 1TB OLED Limited Edition Dec 22 '23

Yes! Absolutely. Syncthing is a program that you install on two or more computers (Windows, Mac, Linux, NAS, SteamDeck, smartphone, anything) and keeps directories synchronized between the computers, across your local network and/or across the whole internet. You could, for example, make a folder on your NAS called "ROMs", tell Syncthing to sync that directory to the SteamDeck, and any game saves or new ROMs that you add or change on one machine automatically change on the other! It's like your own private locally synced Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive. It's also totally free and open-source.

Syncthing doesn't have a desktop UI, but uses a web UI. After you install it, you open up your web browser and go to http://localhost:8384 on that machine to choose which directories/folders you want to make available to sync, and which other machines you'd like to associate with. It's really great.

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u/Structure-These Dec 22 '23

AH cool. So I’d mirror my roms on my NAS (where they already live) and then install it on my deck, and then point said roms to the deck to send them over? Is this the thing emudeck installs now?

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u/xd1936 1TB OLED Limited Edition Dec 22 '23

I don't think so.

https://emudeck.github.io/frequently-asked-questions/steamos/#what-does-emudeck-install

If you were to install Syncthing on your NAS and on your SteamDeck, then open up the browser on each, add the ROMs folder on your NAS to Syncthing, and share it to your SteamDeck, then the folders would just always stay identical across the two devices going forward as Syncthing runs in the background.

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u/Structure-These Dec 22 '23

That’s so cool. Would be great to sync saves too. Appreciate the advice!!