Feature request: Joycon connectivity

[willWallace-RIT]

Your system information

• Steam client version:1764898841
• SteamOS version: 6.11.11-valve26-1-neptune-611-gb3afa9aa9ae7
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Opted into SteamOS beta?: yes
• Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen.

When switching between switch and steamos using Joycon there is an intermediary step in connectivity for previously saved joycons as the joycon itself only has the memory one pairing. The user is force to forget the connection and re-pair the device. For previously paired and saved joycons, it would be convenient that when connect is clicked, the OS checks not only for pairing but also for the edge case in which the joy is looking to pair but was previously connected to a switch so as to automatically reset and re-pair the bluetooth connection.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. pair joycons to steamos
2. re-pair to switch
3. press the sync button and press connect within steamos

[willWallace-RIT]

just to clarify a little: what does work is the initial pair and connect. the issue lies in subsequent connections.

In order to reconnect, the user has to forget the saved joycon pair and pair again every time.

With that said, the joycon MAC address is the same each time.

While it is possible to set up a script to workaround this with disables steam bluetooth daemon, use joycond, re-enable and reintegrate, a less complicated solution would be to have the internal bluetooth setup under the hood check for the saved MAC address device pair in pair mode, forget the saved pairing, re-pair and reconnect.

This does not appear to be a exposed command I can leverage to run an external script to do this instead.