Remote play away from local network

[Jos552]

Is there any way to get remote play to work away from home network on the steam deck? I have forwarded the appropriate ports but still not working. I was able to get it to work on PS5 with chiaki doing port forwarding. Thanks!

[bmcgreer]

FWIW, I got it to work with my Macbook Pro by setting up the VPN on my router, installing a VPN client on my laptop, and using that to route just the traffic destined for my home network through the VPN.

[Ouden-Lin]

I also use a VPN. But it depends a lot on the connection quality.

[NotTheVacuum]

Edit: pardon the error, remote play does work over the internet for Series consoles natively

[rackerby]

And Xbox One, One X, One S.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/games-apps/game-setup-and-play/how-to-set-up-remote-play

System requirements: Xbox One or later consoles

But again, this is for the official Xbox app.

[NotTheVacuum]

Yeah, clearly I was confused... I never used the Xbox app for remote on the Xbox One generation, always used another 3rd party app that also implemented a controller driver.

[rackerby]

The official Xbox app for iOS and Windows allows remote play outside the local network.

[NotTheVacuum]

Greenlight behaves interestingly when trying to stream over internet. When I’m using the local network, sometimes I get the error message that it’s unable to start streaming for a moment after the Xbox starts up. This is normal, and streaming works a few moments later. I can reproduce these errors over the internet shortly after startup, however after they subside, I get the loading screen indefinitely.

So it seems to fail in a similar fashion shortly after startup, but even when that error subsides, it doesn’t connect. Implies there’s some level of connectivity but it just doesn’t quite work.

[rackerby]

The mobile or Windows Xbox app does work for you over the Internet, right?

[NotTheVacuum]

Yes, it does

[ahkdigital]

Also interested in knowing if this works for anyone (outside of the VPN route) - from my experience on Beta 8, it definitely turns the console on and even gets to the point of saying it's connecting but the actual video stream never starts. So, some sort of communication is definitely happening.

[rackerby]

Huh. You are correct.