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FunkeyFlo/ps5-mqtt
Integrate your PlayStation 5 with Home Assistant
ps5-mqtt is a Home Assistant add-on that exposes PS5 power state (rest mode / awake) over MQTT, so you can automate lights, switches, etc. off a PS5 waking up or going to sleep. It's for Home Assistant users with a PS5 who want presence/power automation without needing full remote-play control.
Auto-discovers PS5 devices on the local network and creates MQTT entities automatically, so there's no manual topic wiring once MQTT discovery is enabled. Ships as a proper multi-arch HA add-on (aarch64 + amd64) with a one-click repository install. It includes a web UI for pulling device credentials instead of making you dig a token out manually, and the README claims faster standby/awake detection than the existing community PS4 integration, which matters for automations that key off state changes quickly.
Functionality is capped at wake/standby only — no app launch, no richer control like the comparable PS4 integration offers, and the maintainers are upfront that Sony's remote-play protocol doesn't support more than rest-mode toggling. That same protocol is undocumented and reverse-engineered, and the README's own FAQ flags 403 errors as a known failure mode tied to remote-play feature flags on the console, so auth breakage from firmware changes is a real risk. It's effectively a two-person project (maintainer plus one contributor) with sponsorship asks front and center, which is a signal to check issue response times before depending on it for anything critical.