PS5: Remote play now possible from Jailbroken consoles (ps5-remoteplay-getpin payload)

Screenshot: Modded Warfare on youtube

Developer idlesauce has released a payload For Jailbroken PS5s, which allows to pair the console with a remote client (such as Chiaki), even if the console isn’t connected to the PSN. This enables Remote Play functionality to the Jailbroken PS5.

What is Remote Play for PS5? (And how it got enabled for Jailbroken consoles)

Remote play is a native functionality on PlayStation consoles that dates back to the PS3. Initially originally enabling minimal functionality such as sharing files between the PS3 and PSP, it nowadays allows to fully control a PS5 from any other device on a network, locally or remotely. Technically, this allows you to play your PS5 games from a portable device or your PC, either within your house network or while traveling. This was also a great way to play the PS4 on the PS Vita.

PS4 Remote play on PS Vita. Screenshot via Marc The Geek on Youtube

Notably, the PS Portal relies entirely on this functionality to play PS5 games.

This is a pretty neat feature of the PS5 (and, as mentioned above, a requirement in some cases), but pairing the PS5 to your remote client requires a PIN code. Until now, acquiring that PIN code needed a connection to the PSN. Of course, Jailbroken PS5s, being on a lower firmware, cannot connect to the PlayStation Network.

But developer idlesauce has figured out some of the code of the pairing mechanism, enough to create a payload that will output the pairing pin code, without requiring a PSN Connection.

Combined with existing ways to activate a Jailbroken PS5, as well as unofficial remote play clients such as Chiaki (or even the official Remote Play app), this allows you to enable and use Remote Play on the Jailbroken PS5.

Download and use ps5-remoteplay-getpin

Disclaimer: at the time of writing, the Official Sony Remote Play app apparently also works with this, although in this case you’ll need to use a valid PSN account to log in (and it will need to be the same PSN account as the one used to activate the PS5). Although possible, you’ll need to keep in mind that doing anything on the PSN with a Jailbroken console could at the very least get your account banned, so I’d advise against using your main account for this.

In short, you’ll need to: 

1. Offline activate your Jailbroken PS5 with offact, if not done already
2. Pair the console to your Remote play app of choice, by using ps5-remoteplay-getpin

From the project’s readme:

1. Offline activate your account using offact.
   • Download: https://github.com/ps5-payload-dev/websrv/releases/
   • You can follow this tutorial from Modded Warfare on how to set this up: https://youtu.be/CFTIWX0JJRI?t=202
     • The video description has a link to the offact repo, however you should download offact from the websrv releases page as those are newer builds.
   • The auto-generated id is fine to use, you dont need a real psn id.
   • On very low firmwares the websrv frontend may be broken in the ps5’s browser, for the time being you can open offact by going to http://<yourps5ip>:8080/ on your pc.
2. Reboot the console if you have not done so since you offline activated your account.
3. Inject this payload using john-tornblom’s elf loader on port 9021.
   • The pairing pin and base64 encoded id will be displayed in a notification as well as printed to stdout.
     • To see stdout you can inject like this: socat -t 99999999 - TCP:<yourps5ip>:9021 < rp-get-pin.elf
   • Only the displayed account id will be accepted when pairing, which is the currently logged in user.
   • If you want to cancel the pairing you can send the payload again.
4. Connect with chiaki or chiaki-ng
   • The official Remote Play app may also work (havent tried it myself yet). For this you’ll need to set your proper account id associated with your psn account in offact.

As often, Modded Warfare has a great video that will guide you through these steps. I warmly recommend you give it a look: