Steam remote play with multiple accounts

[sarahbau]

I'm new to LaunchBox. I just built a computer for emulation, and for Steam remote play. Adding all of the steam games from both my account and my boyfriend's account was easy, and the games work - automatically streaming from our respective computers. We've both logged in to steam on the computer with launchbox, and both accounts have family share enabled.

However, Steam will only stream from the computer where the same account is logged in. ie, I can't stream his games and he can't stream mine. The exception is for games we have installed on each others' computers with family share.

I thought of a few possible solutions, but none will work quite how I want:

1. Rather than using the steam:// uri, use the steam app as the game, and enter -login and -applaunch command line options. This has the huge downside of having to store steam passwords in the command line options in Launchbox. It also has the downside of it seemingly not working for streaming. For example, if I run "steam://rungameid/359870", and I'm logged into steam, it will start streaming Final Fantasy X from my desktop. If I run "Steam.exe -login sarahbau hunter2 -applaunch 359870", it attempts to install the game on the Launchbox computer, rather than streaming it.

2. Just install all games we want to stream on one of the two of our computers. This has the downside of requiring some of the games to be installed on multiple computers, even if only one of us plays it. For example, if my boyfriend wanted to play Recettear on the TV, I'd have to have it installed, or if we used his account on the Launchbox computer and I wanted to play Final Fantasy X, he'd have to have it installed. I think this also means steam cloud wouldn't be shared, because it would be running from a different account.

3. Write a program that will, depending on the game id, first login to either one of the accounts, then run the steam://rungameid uri to launch the game streaming. This is what I'm currently leaning toward, unless Launchbox has something built-in to handle multiple steam accounts. I actually already have some of this written since I used to make a different steam account per game (back before family sharing it allowed us to share games without having to worry about kicking the other offline)

 

TLDR: Does Launchbox have a way to handle multiple Steam accounts for remote play?

[neil9000]

15 minutes ago, sarahbau said:

However, Steam will only stream from the computer where the same account is logged in. ie, I can't stream his games and he can't stream mine. The exception is for games we have installed on each others' computers with family share.

I believe this is just how the steam streaming works, you will have to have his games installed on your PC to play them, and likewise he will need to install your games on his PC, this is a requirement of the family sharing, the games you are sharing need to be physically installed on the PC you are playing it from. You cant stream from one user account to another, steam streaming only works with to PC's both logged into the same account.

[sarahbau]

6 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

I believe this is just how the steam streaming works, you will have to have his games installed on your PC to play them, and likewise he will need to install your games on his PC, this is a requirement of the family sharing, the games you are sharing need to be physically installed on the PC you are playing it from. You cant stream from one user account to another, steam streaming only works with to PC's both logged into the same account.

That's what I was thinking - I was just wondering if Launchbox had a way of automatically switching accounts, or if anyone knew of a command line argument that allowed both streaming and choosing the account (steam:// doesn't seem to allow setting the account, and Steam.exe doesn't seem to allow streaming)