Your Frame, at a glance

Control Center

Everything you can see, change and configure. Find a setting, check your headset, or pick up where you left off.

Steam Frame

Connect your Frame to read live metrics

BatteryUnavailableConnect to read charge and power

Storage freeUnavailableUser storage unavailable

Memory usedUnavailableMemory sensor unavailable

Compositor FPSUnavailableCompositor FPS · not game FPS

System information unavailable

Wi-Fi network: Unavailable
Wi-Fi signal: Unavailable
IP address: Unavailable
Uptime: Unavailable
Battery power · signed: Unavailable
Charger: Unavailable
Battery temperature: Unavailable
Battery health: Unavailable
Battery estimate: Unavailable

Positive battery watts mean charging; negative means discharge. Estimates are reported by the battery and may be unavailable.

Press Capture to grab what the Frame is showing, or Live to keep it updating.

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Memory used

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Temperature

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Wi-Fi

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Uptime

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SteamOS

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VR comfort and performance

Waiting for the Frame

Compositor FPS measures SteamVR output, not game FPS. Application FPS is unavailable when no app supplies timing. GPU time is render time, not GPU utilisation. Temperature is the hottest readable sensor.

The HUD is ours and uses the Frame’s built-in tools. Place its panel with SteamVR’s Float in World or controller docking controls. It updates every two seconds until closed.

Playspace and seated comfort

Tracking-origin controls are not available yet: reversible changes still need an idle-headset test. Use SteamVR’s recenter and room setup for now. A seated origin only affects apps that use seated tracking; it cannot force a game into seated mode.

For motion comfort, choose snap-turn, teleport movement and a movement vignette in each game’s settings. SteamVR has no verified universal snap-turn or locomotion-vignette switch.

Optional VR software

None of Frame Control’s features needs these apps. Compatibility reports and account ownership are separate. Paid apps can only be installed here when already owned.

Load this optional list to check the Frame account.

Family and comfort

Share this screen with people in the room. Casting shows everything the wearer sees, including private content.

Checking session…

A one-minute warning, then Steam Home. Games stay running: save and pause first. Keep this app open and connected for notifications.

How sessions and alerts work

This is a reminder, not a parental lock. The timer continues on the Frame if you disconnect; a headset restart cancels it. Cancel before changing settings. Set break/check-in to 0 to turn them off.

Battery, heat and check-in alerts appear on connected companions during a session. Headset warnings and break reminders continue without a companion. iOS may suspend phone notifications in the background. Breaks and check-ins count SteamVR activity, not confirmed wear time.

Keyboard and trackpad

Types and points in apps on the Frame, such as Chromium or the desktop's Linux apps; Steam's own VR menus don't take it. It works through KDE Connect, which comes with Frame Control: the first time, it copies Valve's build for the Frame (3.6 MB, 18 MB unpacked) into your home folder there and pairs with it. No internet needed, and nothing else to install. Licences

Screenshots

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Screenshots you take in the headset with Steam's screenshot shortcut. New ones appear on their own. Click one to open it in the viewer, Copy puts it on the clipboard, and Save copies it to ~/Pictures/SteamFrame. Right-click for more.

Installed

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Sideloaded titles

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Your own Linux or Windows builds, added to the Steam library as Devkit Games. Drop a game's .zip, folder or .exe anywhere in this window.

Get games

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Install downloads a game you own straight to the Frame and accepts Steam's default options; EULAs and license prompts still need answering in the headset. To buy, open the store page in your browser (signed in to Steam) or in the headset, then Refresh and install. Ratings are Valve's Steam Frame compatibility categories.

On your Frame

Library

Your Android apps. Each runs in its own Lepton instance, keeps its data, and is in the Steam library under its own name.

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Display and reports

Import from my Quest

Plug your Quest into this computer by USB, put it on, then Look for my Quest.

Also copy each game's files in Android/data (some games keep saves there) Allow replacing a newer version on the Frame with the Quest's older one

Copies games you own from your own Quest (developer mode on) to the Frame. A game with OBB data takes two imports: the first installs it; start it from the Steam library, then import again to copy its data in. Frame Control never starts the game itself. Games that use Meta's licence check install with a warning: on the Frame that check can't reach Meta, so they may quit, hang, or run without online features. Frame Control won't remove that check. How it works

My Meta library

Experimental

Off. Nothing is sent to Meta until you connect.

Experimental. This uses Meta's undocumented internal API with your own Meta access token. It may stop working whenever Meta changes things, and using it may be against Meta's terms; your account is your responsibility. It only lists and downloads games your account owns, installs them as they are, and never removes a licence check.

I understand, and want to use my own Meta token with Frame Control

How to get your token. Sign in with Meta (desktop app) opens Meta's login page in its own Frame Control window and takes the token from there; it never reads your browser. Frame Control checks it with Meta, then keeps it in a private file on this computer (never on the Frame, and never in reports). Disconnect deletes it.

Install downloads the game from Meta and installs it like Import from my Quest; a game with OBB data takes a second Install while it is open. Install and test also starts it, adds its data, watches it for about 30 seconds and records whether it ran; Test again does just the test. Results go to the compatibility reports, shared only if you share compatibility results. How it works

Android display

Lepton

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UI scale

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Text size

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Resolution

UI scale

Text size

Changes apply at once, and the app may redraw or restart its screen. They may not survive the app relaunching (not yet verified). Sharp gives Android more pixels in the same panel, which should make text crisper.

Recent reports

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Reports change the verdicts in the catalogue. Any APK can be reported, including ones not on F-Droid.

Assistant and AI agents

Use your own model endpoint, or review a proposed MCP action. Nothing is sent to a model until you opt in.

Open assistant

Send to Frame

Drop files here, or click to chooseTap to choose files Files land in ~/Downloads. .apk files install as their own Android app; a game's .zip, folder or .exe becomes a title in the Steam library. You can also drop files anywhere in this window.

Android display

Clipboard

Clipboard needs the desktop panel open in the headset.

Media in the headset

Preview

Play your movies and stereo photos with Frame Control's own player.

On the Frame

Layout

Theatre · bigger screen, dark surround

Choose a file to begin.

H.264/H.265 video; SBS/OU PNG or JPEG photos. Screens follow your head. Small .splat files show a stationary stereo preview (up to 20,000 Gaussians). Native HEIC/MPO photos, large splat scenes, seeking and subtitles aren't supported yet. Stop works from here; playback also ends after four hours.

Linux apps

Flatpak

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Library artwork settings

SteamGridDB supplies community artwork for sideloaded games. Without a key, Frame Control uses source images and creates the remaining art.

SteamGridDB API key

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Remote & power

Sleep, Restart and Shut down open a terminal window for the Developer Mode password.

Sleep, Restart and Shut down ask for the Developer Mode password. SSH, SFTP, Steam Link and remote desktop open in the app that handles them.

Steam Link: Valve's remote view of the headset

Stream Frame: third-party recorder (macOS 14+)

FrameDrop: sideloader (Windows only for now)

Panel switcher

Refresh to see open panels.

Choose a panel to show it in SteamVR. The headset switcher stays available from Steam's dashboard. Saved spatial layouts are not available yet.

Privacy & updates

Anonymous usage statistics Installs, opens, version, operating system, country (from the time zone setting, to see roughly where it's used), tabs used, and whether installs on the Frame worked (with an error category, never the message). F-Droid package names only. Each headset's SteamOS build, a one-way hash of its machine ID (to count headsets, not just installs), and how many you've set up. Share compatibility results Your APK reports and tests (package, version, result, your notes) go to the shared compatibility database, so the verdicts get better for everyone. Send error details Error messages and where in Frame Control they happened, with your home folder, user name, addresses and keys removed.

Contact email (optional)

Sent privately to the Frame Control maintainer, never shared or published. Updates are occasional release notices; follow-up questions are mainly about problem reports you send.

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What's collected, exactly

Headsets

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Frame Control talks to one headset at a time. Each can be reached at several addresses; it tries them all at once and uses the best one that answers on the network you're on.

This computer's network

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Networks are told apart by their router (its IP and hardware address), so this works on wired networks and when your computer won't share the Wi-Fi name.

Pick a headset.

Control Center

Steam Frame

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Device

VR comfort and performance

Playspace and seated comfort

Family and comfort

Keyboard and trackpad

Screenshots

Installed

Sideloaded titles

Get games

Store

Library

Display and reports

Install queue

Import from my Quest

My Meta library

Android display

Recent reports

Find apps

Assistant and AI agents

Send to Frame

Clipboard

Media in the headset

Linux apps

Library artwork settings

Remote & power

Panel switcher

Mac in the headset

Windows

Privacy & updates

Contact email (optional)

Headsets

This computer's network