ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

Re:ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine by nsxwolf on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:35PM (#49140830)

How well does HDMI CEC work on this?

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Re:ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine by plug_world on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:45PM (#49140894)

If you get the right adapter, I've seen others get HDMI CEC working.

However, quality of life features like sleep/hibernate don't work at all on this system. I've also seen people use an ESP32 to power on the system with a bluetooth controller which is pretty neat especially if you combined that with CEC.

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Re:ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine by aleksejs on Sunday August 02, 2026 @12:41AM (#49141161)

I just added CEC to mine today by soldering some wires to my DP-to-HDMI adapter and having Claude write some firmware to run on a Pi Pico to inject the CEC messages at the right time.

It's not the most elegant solution but felt in the spirit of the whole BC-250 experience.

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Re:ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine by stavros on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:38AM (#49142743)

This is why the Steam Machine is worth its money (or, well, what it would have cost if RAM hadn't gone to the sky). Getting 90% of the nice-to-haves costs $200, but getting 100% costs $1000.

"It just works" is expensive.

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Re:ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine by falcojr on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:43PM (#49140881)

Not at all

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Re:ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine by ThatPlayer on Sunday August 02, 2026 @12:19AM (#49141059)

It has no HDMI port. Some DP > HDMI adapters do CEC.

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