BFpilot

PS5 payload that runs a browser file manager on port 5905:

http://<PS5_IP>:5905/

Works from the PS5 browser or any PC/phone on the same network. No extra app after you inject it.

Version v0.4.0. Tested on FW 11.60.

Payloads

File	What it is
bfpilot.elf	File manager + archive extract. Inject this.
bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf	Optional home menu tile (BFPL00001 → http://127.0.0.1:5905/)
bfpilot-archive-worker.elf	Build-only diagnostic. You don't need this for normal use.

Releases only ship the first two.

Features

Browse & transfer

• Dual panels: left = browse, right = Target for copy/move/extract
• Places: /, /data, /data/homebrew, /user, /mnt, USB/ext when plugged in, custom shortcuts
• Upload files or a whole folder (folder picker needs browser support)
• Download, copy, move, rename, mkdir, recursive delete
• Progress + cancel on big jobs; overwrite/merge/skip when the destination already exists
• Free space check before copy/move when size is known
• Folder size on click

Selection

• Checkboxes + select all (works fine with a controller)

Search

• Index All crawls some useful mounts into RAM (Everything-style queries after that)
• Priority roots first (/data, /user, USB/ext), then system paths; stays on the same filesystem (st_dev) so it doesn't walk sandbox/nullfs nonsense
• Bad roots are skipped instead of killing the whole index
• Cap about 2 million entries; cache at /data/BFpilot/search.idx
• Case-insensitive multi-word search, match highlighting

Archives (built into bfpilot.elf)

• ZIP (stored/deflate/ZIP64, ZipCrypto only — no AES zip)
• RAR4/RAR5 + passwords + multipart
• 7z + passwords + .7z.001 splits
• Extract only under /data and USB/ext mounts
• Password prompt, progress/ETA, cleans up partial output on failure

Viewers

• Images: png/jpg/gif/bmp/webp/ico/svg — pan, zoom, rotate
• Text editor for common source/config types, max 5 MB
• Logs button: BFpilot logs, archive/search/boot logs, VSH log, error history

Other

• Shortcuts saved to /data/BFpilot/shortcuts.txt
• Exit button shuts down cleanly and frees port 5905 (loader on 9021 stays up)
• New files/dirs get mode 0777

Upload / network (v0.4.0)

• HTTP keep-alive (up to 64 requests per connection)
• 2 MiB upload buffer, 1 MiB download buffer
• Listen socket asks for 4 MiB RCVBUF / 2 MiB SNDBUF
• No bulk TCP_NODELAY, no multi-GB posix_fallocate while uploading

More detail: docs/UPLOAD_PERFORMANCE.md

Install

Grab the latest release: https://github.com/ItsBlurf/BFpilot/releases

python3 payload_sender.py <PS5_IP> 9021 bfpilot.elf
# optional tile:
python3 payload_sender.py <PS5_IP> 9021 bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf

Or send the ELFs with ps5-payload-manager / Blurfer.

Then open http://<PS5_IP>:5905/.

Quick checks: /api/status, /api/diag, /api/fs/places

Build

Needs ps5-payload-sdk:

export PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK=/path/to/ps5-payload-sdk
make clean all
make inspect-imports

Windows: build.cmd if your toolchain is already set up.

Outputs: bfpilot.elf, bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf, bfpilot-archive-worker.elf

Slim build without archives: make bfpilot-lite

inspect-imports makes sure the main ELF stays free of AppInstUtil/launcher imports.

Logs on the PS5

/data/BFpilot/log.txt
/data/BFpilot/boot.log
/data/BFpilot/crash.log
/data/BFpilot/search_crawl.log
/data/BFpilot/search.idx
/data/BFpilot/shortcuts.txt
/data/BFpilot/archive-integrated/archive-worker.log
/data/BFpilot/archive-integrated/status.json
/data/BFpilot/launcher-installer.log

Dev tests (optional)

PS5_IP=<PS5_IP> BF_WEB_PORT=5905 make ps5-diag
PS5_IP=<PS5_IP> BF_WEB_PORT=5905 BF_ALLOW_PS5_WRITE=1 make ps5-smoke
python3 scripts/goal_verify_io.py

Compatibility

Main ELF is launcher-free on purpose — no AppInstUtil / UserService / SystemService / kernel_sys installer imports that break before main() on some FW + loaders. Tile installer is a separate ELF so a bad install path doesn't take down the file manager.

See docs/COMPATIBILITY_STRATEGY.md. Archives: docs/ARCHIVE_EXTRACTION.md. Changelog: CHANGELOG.md.

Credits

• owendswang/ps5-web-file-manager — image viewer / checkbox multi-select ideas
• ps5-payload-dev — SDK / websrv
• UnRAR (Alexander Roshal)
• miniz
• LZMA SDK (Igor Pavlov)

Third-party code under third_party/ keeps its own licenses.