The Bluetooth chip in the LCD model is very buggy for wake-up.
It's been enabled and disabled several times while they investigate, but it's currently disabled for LCD models
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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Thanks, no clue why it was so hard to find this, hopefully it’s something that’ll be enabled in the future.
An alternative some people do is to use a smart plug to turn power off/on to the deck's dock (I'm assuming it's docked if you're using a controller).
There's a bios setting to wake up the deck whenever it's plugged in, so cycling power like that will wake up the deck.
Honestly I’m just going to treat it like my PS2. Just need to put my controller near the deck if I want to use it.
If valve is working on it (which it looks like they are) it’s a matter of if than when
That's an optimistic take. As a long-time LCD owner I don't expect this to ever work flawlessly.
My wife is aiming to get a Steam Machine when they become available. This steam deck is taking the place of it until then for me.
It’s no worse then my older consoles and the alternatives from Ayn or Ambernic, and the facts it’s being consider and worked on is a positive.
My wife is aiming to get a Steam Machine when they become available. This steam deck is taking the place of it until then for me.
There is a decent chance the USB-connected charger/receiver for the Steam Controller 2 could wake a docked Steam Deck LCD, btw.
Shhhh, she might hear you and totally wasn't my plan.
If my original Steam Controller dongle wasn't destroyed I'd totally test it too.
If valve is working on it (which it looks like they are) it’s a matter of if than when
Which valve? The one that made half life? Lol
Which valve? The one that made half life? Lol
No, the SteamOS and hardware teams are actually different groups of people to the game developers.
Oh, the ones who made the last steam machine and controller and supported them for 10 minutes
Oh, the ones who made the last steam machine
Valve made no Steam Machine before the upcoming one. Are you confused and meant the 3rd party devices that were branded Steam Machines? Those were not by Valve and not by the Half-Life development team in particular.
and controller and supported them for 10 minutes
Steam Controller 1 is still fully supported and got Bluetooth firmware several years after release: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/353370/view/3931035846865617357
Another option is to connect a Steam Controller (via its dongle, not via bluetooth). Pressing the controller steam button wakes it up always.
Do you mean the Steam Controller or the Steam Controller?
Yes
Obviously they meant the Steam Controller, not the Steam Controller.
I have a steam controller, will it be able to use the same dongle as the steam controller? I imagine not, probably only works with the steam controller 😖
It was enabled shortly after I got mine and I used it a lot, but then they disabled it. Wish they'd made it optional.
Wasn't wake on Bluetooth disabled a few updates back due to certain problems that still need solving?
- I had both and it worked fine on the OLED but never on the LCD.
- It took me way too long to realize that it only wakes it from sleep and not from completely off.
The only thing that ever wakes my LCD is the Bluetooth keyboard / mouse dongle plugged into the dock it resides in. If I take the Deck out of the dock and plug it back in I have to turn it on once before it will recognize the keyboard / mouse.
Just be mindful of the xbox controllers as I think it should be very picky about working only with specific versions of the controller, but what version of SteamOS are you on? It's been on a journey of being enabled and disabled with each update.
You might want to try the beta version
These controllers worked on my friends system.