Demote
by The Demote contributors
Universal TV and streamer remote for the Steam Deck
About
Demote turns your Steam Deck (or any Linux desktop) into a universal remote for the TVs and streaming boxes on your network. It discovers your devices, pairs with them, and gives you a big touch-friendly remote that you can also drive with the Deck's gamepad. Supported devices: - Samsung Tizen smart TVs - Roku players and Roku TVs (TCL, Hisense, onn…) - Vizio SmartCast TVs - LG webOS smart TVs - Android TV / Google TV (Sony, Nvidia Shield, Chromecast with Google TV…) - Generic DLNA / UPnP media renderers (cast video files and URLs) The on-screen buttons adapt to whatever the selected device actually supports, and mapped controls show a small Steam Deck input hint. When focused, Demote grabs the gamepad exclusively so a game in the background never sees the presses.
Permissions
1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- raw input devices (keyboards, mice, gamepads)
--device=input - require-version 1.16.0
--require-version=1.16.0 - network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - access to your videos folder
--filesystem=xdg-videos:ro - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download:ro
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- git source tracks a moving branch: what gets built can change without the manifest changing
source:unpinned - hosted by github.com/yotapower04, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.yotapower04.Demote
publisher:namespace
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
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