My primary interest in VirtualHere have been to use a huge range of retro-pads and adapters, including in particular a retronicdesign DB9 adapter (Amiga, Atari, C64 etc) on my bedroom computer, so that I can play emulated games ran and archived on my main computer.
I made the bedroom PC (Windows 10) into a VirtualHere server, then put in the controller. Then I make my main computer a VirtualHere client and select Auto-Use. So far everything works fine. The device appears in the emulator (used FS-UAE for testing). I can even connect to the computer with VNC and play a game (without audio).
But when I run the emulator by streaming it to steam, the device is suddenly gone. It disappears from the list, no longer detected by the emulator.
(by the way, is there any way to disable the "VirtualHere Client VirtualHereUSB Server Trial Edition (xxxx.local.:7575)" message?)
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Its almost certainly the steam client taking control of the device and blocking input. Its not related to virtualhere..
The simple solution was to
The simple solution was to disable "Generic Gamepad Configuration Support" in Steam > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings.
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OK thanks for the info, that might help others