Developer Rescues Stadia Bluetooth Tool That Google Killed (theverge.com)
(Tuesday January 20, 2026 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the good-guy-dev dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/20/2226236/developer-rescues-stadia-bluetooth-tool-that-google-killed
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/864543/google-has-finally-killed-the-stadia-bluetooth-tool-but-this-person-rescued-it
This week, Google finally shut down the official Stadia Bluetooth conversion tool... but there's no need to panic! Developer Christopher Klay preserved a copy on [1]his personal GitHub and is hosting a [2]fully working version of the tool on a dedicated website to make it even easier to find. The Verge's Sean Hollister reports:
> I haven't tried Klay's mirror, as both of my gamepads are already converted, but [3]here's my video on how easy the process is. It's worth doing now that the pads work relatively well with Steam! I maintain that while Google made a lot of mistakes, it's an amazing example of shutting down a service the right way.
[1] https://github.com/ChristopherKlay/stadiacontroller
[2] https://christopherklay.github.io/stadiacontroller/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4yYrTyoiY
> I haven't tried Klay's mirror, as both of my gamepads are already converted, but [3]here's my video on how easy the process is. It's worth doing now that the pads work relatively well with Steam! I maintain that while Google made a lot of mistakes, it's an amazing example of shutting down a service the right way.
[1] https://github.com/ChristopherKlay/stadiacontroller
[2] https://christopherklay.github.io/stadiacontroller/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4yYrTyoiY
Google killed something that I had never heard of (Score:2)
That's not unusual, of course.
But apparantly one of the original developers doesn't want it to die.
AFAIK Stadia is a greek unit of length, maybe once around the track in the original olympics?