Homebridge Playstation

Playstation integration for Homebridge.

Hey Siri, turn on PS5 finally possible!

This integration exposes a Switch service that can be used to switch on/off your PS4/PS5, and determine its current state and show realtime titles of playing game.

Most of the work is done by the amazing playactor library, which this project depends on and psnawp

Installation

You can install it via Homebridge UI or manually using:

npm -g homebridge-playstation-game-title

Then install python3

And install pip3 requirements plugin

pip3 install PSNAWP

Configuration

• Turn on your PlayStation, go to "Settings" and enable "Remote Play".

• Run this command as homebridge user, make sure you don't run these commands as root or pi, otherwise nothing will work):

homebridge-playstation-login

You can do this by using the Homebridge UI terminal or an SSH session and manually changing user with su homebridge

• Open the authorization link provided, authenticate it using your PSN account, and copy the URL when the page shows "redirect" in the terminal.

• On your PlayStation go to "Settings" > "System" > "Remote Play" > "Link Device" and provide the PIN code.

• Restart the HomeBridge instance

• At boot, you should see a message like "Please add [PS5 XYZ] manually in Home app. Setup Code: 111-22-333" in the logs; open the Home app and add your PlayStation as an extra accessory using "Add Accessory" in the top-right menu

Troubleshooting

If at some point you have any problem, you can try to reset the Homebridge accessory and re-pair it.

To do so, go to Homebridge UI > "Settings" > "Unpair Bridges / Cameras / TVs / External Accessories" and delete the Playstation.

To reset the credentials used by PlayActor, you need to manually remove the directory /home/homebridge/.config/playactor