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sevro
Community Member

External Keyboard options?

Is there anyway to connect an external keyboard when playing on stadia via chrome cast?

Can you use the stadia app on your phone to type to other players?

I hope this is in the works if not already possible, given that communication and text chat in an MMO (playing ESO) is usually recommended in order to have a full experience. :slightly_smiling_face:

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codesplice
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide

@sevro No - or at least not yet. There's no way to connect a keyboard/mouse when playing on Chromecast.

It would be really cool to be able to tether an input device through a phone like you mentioned though. I'd definitely encourage you to send feedback through the Stadia app to suggest that to the devs!

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Catch33
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Any news on this perhaps, now a year later?

I like to type in game to my clan members. I was hoping the voice to text could work but it isn't even picking up my voice.

Now i have to revert back to my laptop... To play stadia there

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codesplice
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide

@Catch33 

Since this thread was started, Google has implemented "Tandem Mode", which allows you to basically tether another controller to the Chromecast-hosted game session through the Stadia controller's USB port:
https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10043273

There are also signs of progress on preparing to do basically the same thing through the Stadia app on your phone, though I don't think that has gone live yet:
https://9to5google.com/2021/05/07/stadia-3-15-phone-tv-controller/

These steps do seem like they would lay the technical groundwork for connecting a keyboard to Stadia when playing on Chromecast, though that isn't quite the intent of the features. For now, at least, Tandem Mode only supports a fixed set of hardware IDs corresponding to particular controllers so I wouldn't expect connecting an arbitrary keyboard to work, and we don't know when (or even if) the "bridge mode" will be available on phones.

Still, it looks like progress to me. Please be sure to use that in-app feedback option to let the development team know this is a capability you would like to see added.

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MrVacca
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

And that my friends is why @codesplice is a gold Stadia guide!!!

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codesplice
Gold Stadia Guide
Gold Stadia Guide


@MrVacca wrote:

And that my friends is why @codesplice is a gold Stadia guide!!!


:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

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