Steam bridge

The Steam bridge installed by us is powered by matrix-steam.

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Usage¶

This page shows you how to set up the Steam bridge using Cinny client app (available as an add-on component), so that you can receive and send messages between Steam and Matrix rooms.

Note: The bridge is in early development. See its ROADMAP for planned features.

Invite the bot to a management room¶

First, please start a chat with @steambot:your-server.com to create a management room.

Make sure to replace your-server.com with your actual “base domain”. Setting your-server.com or example.com does not work on your server!

When the bot joins to the created room, it sends confirmation messages to the room as below. If they are visible, bot successfully joined the management room — it works as expected.

Authentication¶

To bridge Steam over Matrix, you need to authenticate the bridge’s bot for Steam.

There is a couple of ways for conducting authentication, and the simplest one is to log in with a QR code. Please follow the steps below to do so.

1. Send login qr to the bridge bot
2. Open the Steam app on your phone
3. Point your phone at the image sent by the bot to capture the code
4. After scanning the code, you’ll need to approve the login on the mobile app

Due to the early development status of the bridge, in some cases image may not be displayed correctly. If that happens, you can still use QR code login by opening the link provided in the bot’s response. The link looks like this: https://s.team/q/1/1234567890 and redirects to https://store.steampowered.com/about/qrlogin/1/1234567890.

The QR code with the link will be displayed on the room as below:

After logging in, you may uninstall the Steam app from your mobile phone.

The bridge will automatically create rooms when new messages are received from friends on Steam.

Useful commands¶

If you send a message help to the room, available commands are output as a message like below:

Here is a couple of useful commands:

• search <query> — Search for users on the remote network
• start-chat [login ID] <identifier> — Start a direct chat with the given user