PlayStation binding

Add-ons Bindings
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I’ve come pretty far with a Sony PlayStation 4 binding and I think people can test it out now.

Right now you can;

  • Read and control power
  • Read game name/id
  • Start games/apps
  • Show cover art for games/apps
  • Send input controls.
  • Show/send text to on screen keyboard.
  • read and control connection to PS4.

Things not working/implemented;

  • Second screen (only possible from device connected to PS4 (OpenHABServer), is it possible to make a proxy in OpenHAB?).
  • Streaming conversations.
  • Take screen shot (maybe not possible).
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According to the header in the document this is specification of waekup for PS3 done by Sony.

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What exactly can you do with that binding?

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Nice. Ping me if ready for review.

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Are there any official guide lines on how to name bindings? I would really like to release a first version for people to test.

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I think playstation is fine.

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Awesome!! I use PS4-Waker at the moment… but to have direct integration/an Openhab binding for PS4… Im looking forward to that! :slight_smile:

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Updated first post with links and new information.

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hello, this is my first post here, sorry if i do something wrong and because of my bad english (i hope google translate understandable).

with the Ps4 everything seems to work. Thank you for this binding!

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Great Binding!
Thanks!

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Following . . .

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Links in first post updated again.

Better detection of PS3 and some timing adjustments during wake up of PS4.

Is someone willing to translate the binding?

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*1 You drop the jar-file in the “addons” folder in openhab installation.
*2 Do what you normally do.
*3 Profit!?

I Have only used the binding with Paper-UI so far, if you go to your inbox after the plug-in is installed you should see any PS4 on your network there. Just click add, then you can configure the thing and add some more channel if you want.

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Hi there! Anyone besides me has problems with controlling application with input keys?

I’ve installed the binding and I am able to move around on main menu with input keys. But as soon as I enter an application (make it Netflix for instance), these input keys stop working.

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It seems the keys are not working in most apps, I can’t do more than the official second screen app from Sony, sorry.

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Thank you for your Binding! :+1:

  1. copied it to the addon folder,
  2. the ps4 was in the inbox in the PaperUI
  3. only after a restart, the power thing had the correct name for the channel (at the first attempt, there was a string attached like “helperchannel” or so …
  4. if the playstation is on, obenhab knows its power status.
    Question: is it possible to switch off the playstation via OpenHAB Switch?
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Yes, I use it with a PS 4 Pro even as a HomeKit Switch and it works fine!

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Hmm, the playstation remains off.

Did you type in your user name password, when you set up the binding? I just added the location, not more.

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You need a 64character user-credential to control the PS4, this can be obtained by running ps4waker as described in the readme.

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Hey Frederik,

very nice Binding! I installed the jar File yesterday and tried to connect my Playstation to ps4-waker. That was a little bit tricky, because I’m running openHAB on a Synology NAS. It turns out, that there are several problems to get ps4-waker running on that device. But I managed it. If I have a look in the connection menu of my PS4 the NAS is successfully connected, and if I start ps4-waker from the prompt of the NAS everything is ok, a lot of information of my PS4 are shown!

So I took the credentials from the ps4-waker file, checked the ip-address of the PS4, saved the pairingCode from the pairing process and created following thing:

Thing playstation:PS4:BC60A7A2F38A "PlayStation4" @ "EG_GZ" [ ipAdress="192.168.50.53", userCredential="took-the-credential-from-ps4-waker", passCode="1234", pairingCode="took-the-paring-digits-from-ps4-waker" ]

But I can’t get the Thing working. In the events.log of openHAB it is always shown as “HANDLER_CONFIGURATION_PENDING”

Possible problem could be:

  • I’m not using a passcode on my PS4. But the configuration neither works if I define the thing completely without the passCode phrase or with a passcode phrase like passCode="".
  • The configuration of ipAdress="192.168.50.53" is correct, but when I check the thing configuration in Paper UI, the ip-address ist allways empty like in this screenshot:
    Unbenannt

Do you have any hint what is going wrong?

Cheers,
kuczerek