Cannot get GSConnect to pair with phone
I have an Android phone + Bazzite-gnome on Steam Deck. Love bazzite!
Before I went with bazzite, using the same hardware I had KDE connect working with deck + phone. Now I tried on different wifi networks, shared hotspot, manually entering ip addresses on either GSConnect or KDE connect on phone to no avail. Has anyone got it working to pair their bazzite device with their phone ? Thanks!
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Try to update to the latest version of Android KDE Connect, 1.33.0 had compatibility issues with GSConnect. 1.33.1 fixed it.
Already on 1.33.1 on my phone. I should have mentionned it my bad.
/etc/os-release on my steam deck
NAME="Bazzite"
VERSION="41.20250227.0 (Silverblue)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable
ID=bazzite
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID=41
VERSION_CODENAME="Holographic"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f41"
PRETTY_NAME="Bazzite 41 (FROM Fedora Silverblue)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;138;43;226"
LOGO=bazzite-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:universal-blue:bazzite:41"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME="bazzite"
HOME_URL="https://bazzite.gg"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.bazzite.gg"
SUPPORT_URL="https://discord.bazzite.gg"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/"
SUPPORT_END=2025-12-15
VARIANT="Silverblue"
VARIANT_ID=bazzite-deck-gnome
OSTREE_VERSION='41.20250227.0'
BUILD_ID="Stable (F41.20250227)"
BOOTLOADER_NAME="Bazzite Stable (F41.20250227)"
BUILD_ID="Stable (F41.20250227)"
BOOTLOADER_NAME="Bazzite Stable (F41.20250227)"
Huh, that's weird. Do you have access to ethernet for your deck? If yes, can you try and see if it works then?
Another thing I did before updating was unpair all devices with the Android phone (so deck, PC, laptop, etc) which might have helped, but not sure if it would work on your end.
Got it working! Just had to clear the data on my phone + reinstall kde. Sorry for the bother and thanks anyways!