PS5 integration - request

[kasper]

The past weekend i migrated all the different eco systems i had to Home Assistant. Connected all the zigbee stuff to a zigbee USB stick on a raspberry pi with Home Assistant installed. For the most part it works great. There is just 1 thing really missing imho and that’s a PS5 integration. I found this

PS5-MQTT: Control PlayStation 5 devices using MQTT

The PSN API unfortunately doesn’t expose which device the activity is being conducted on. As such the add-on does a best effort match (as described in the documentation) to match activity to a device. This means that it is unable to distinguish activity between multiple devices of the same type. Bug However… the intended behaviour was to match the activity to one device and not multiple. So that does seem to be a bug. Would you be so kind to create an issue on the Github repo so we can better…

But it says in the addon that it’s no longer maintained. Had a lot more luck with the edge version. But i am a bit wary about how long it will keep working.
The issue is that switching ON the PS5 is registered fine. However when i switch it off it reports in the logbook as “unavailable” which isn’t a state i can attach to a device trigger. If the device trigger is “Powered off” the automation doesn’t work.

Maybe this can be resolved with a MQTT trigger? I have no idea how to get this working. Is this addon still being used by anyone and if so what is your solution for the “unavailable” state?

[nickrout]

How is this a feature request? Please post on the author’s github.

[kasper]

The feauture request is for a working supported official integration for the PS5 like there is for the PS4. Not to get support on the no longer maintained addon that may or may not work in 1-2 months. I was just pointing out that that is the only alternative for a official integration i could find and i don’t really see it as a proper alternative.

[tom_l]

5 days ago the developer said this:

PS5-MQTT: Control PlayStation 5 devices using MQTT

Not sure either. I’m not familiar with unRAID so I can’t help you out with that. I can tell you that the next update will most likely eliminate the need for the custom run.sh, so that might make things a little easier

So, the addon is being maintained. It just hasn’t had an update since 2022, maybe even because it did not need one.

[kasper]

So this doesn’t mean it’s not maintained?

[tom_l]

It’s an automatic badge that appears to be broken, as if you look at the file history above you will see a change was made last month.

[kasper]

OK thanks for clarifying that. There’s still the request for a official integration for the PS5 like the one for PS4.
But i am sure that has requested before and there must be reasons this is not happening.

[nickrout]

Somebody with coding skills and a PS5 and the inclination to do it needs to be involved.