Interfacing the PS4 console (not the controller)

Cableguy

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Hi guys,

One of my kids is a 2020 F1 PS4 game addicted and even has a racing seat ans specialized steering wheel... the thing is already over 500€ just in extras...
He was watching a video of how to add an LED display to the steering wheel... just the pcb costs 150€ plus a lot of manual work...
Apparently this display interfaces the ps4 by Bluetooth...
Has any of you any interesting links about how to retrieve info from the PS4 console through BT ?
I was ready to bet him that it could be done (the whole thing) for less than half the price, using B4R and maybe an esp32...
But I find no info on this...
 
udg said:
For less than 2000€ you could buy a real second-hand car :)
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it's an addiction... for 2000€ I would buy me a new computer... and lots of electronics... that my addiction...
 
Maybe @DonManfred can help you in some way, as it seems he has some experience interfacing PS4

[Solved] Problem parsing UDP Packets from F1 2018 (PS/4 Game) - Need help

Hello, i am parsing UDP-Packets which is send out from the PS/4 Game to my PC. Here a B4J App is capturing the PAckets and i want to analyse the Data coming in. The Specs are documented here. The UDP-Packets always have a size of 1367 Bytes What encoding format is used? All values are...
www.b4x.com www.b4x.com
 
Indeed,
Many useful information there.
I will dig into it... although it's all Chinese to me!
 
Cableguy said:
although it's all Chinese to me!
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its OK I can get it translated into Khoi-San and that will make it all clear .....
khoisan

or Xhosa

udg said:
less than 2000€ you could buy a real second-hand car
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WOW just

2 000 Euro equals
36 862,49 South African Rand

Look out Hamilton the ex-colonial is en route . . . .
 
You can get my car for 2K. Many (unwanted) led's flashing in the dashboard. No BT needed ?
 
Cableguy said:
He was watching a video of how to add an LED display to the steering wheel... just the pcb costs 150€ plus a lot of manual work...
Apparently this display interfaces the ps4 by Bluetooth...
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Is the LED display for showing the current Gear ? ?
Something like when I press my "real car" steering's paddle shifter?
 
aeric said:
Is the LED display for showing the current Gear ? ?
Something like when I press my "real car" steering's paddle shifter?
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Current gear, rpm, motor temp, etc...
 
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Cableguy said:
Current genre, rpm, motor temp, etc...
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I see...

Thrustmaster-BT-Display-02.jpg

source/credit: https://www.gtplanet.net/thrustmaster-reveals-ps4-only-bt-led-display-unit/
 
The racing games show they can transmit the data on udp - so you could probably get a pi to read the data and drive a display for the telemetry of the car.
 
Could a Esp2866 do it?
I've never worked with udp packets before
 
Did you see @DonManfred post here
udp data

Not sure on Esp2866

Worst case you could probably use an old android phone as the display and read the udp packets on the phone.
 
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I tell you what - it will be easier to break the 2020 F1 addiction than to find real information about how to do this.

I just tried a search and beside finding that "somewhere" there is an API and SDK there is nothing that gets close.

the @DonManfred link above might get you somewhere but to translate the UPD data into hardware that will make a good LED display -> -> -> ?

In fact it would be easier to learn KhoiSan language.

My guess is that a "birthday" gift @ +-150 euro would be worth the spend given the amount of time to resolve this. although, even then, one would have to translate into some form of hardware.

I found the link @aeric showed above as well (but you (/the kid) may want more).

Sony apparently is not happy with third party additions . . . . . nor the "escapee" SDK.
 
Cableguy said:
Could a Esp2866 do it?
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Go ESP32.

On second thoughts -> I just had a look at that @DonManfred thread. There must be good prospects there since "all you have to do" is chop-up those UDP data strings and then use that to write to an OLED screen or even just a set of LEDs. You know GEAR = 3 turn on LED. As you probably know - ESP has lots of digital inputs and some analogue.

There is a link here to the F1 2020 UDP data specs, just putting it here since the spec may have been tweaked or changed. F1 2020 UDP Specification [[EDIT : i see @Daestrum already got there.]]

An ESP32 should be able to connect with that UDP (I haven't looked to see but I presume that the connections is BlueT which is built into the ESP32). Check out the way ESP NOW works (again I know that this is how two ESP32 units can talk but ESP has both wireless and BlueT).

Just in case you have not seen information about : (you might have to do some extrapolation) Pretty sure ESP will work - so B4R is an option......
ESP NOW
ESP LoRa
 
rabbitBUSH said:
I tell you what - it will be easier to break the 2020 F1 addiction than to find real information about how to do this.

I just tried a search and beside finding that "somewhere" there is an API and SDK there is nothing that gets close.

the @DonManfred link above might get you somewhere but to translate the UPD data into hardware that will make a good LED display -> -> -> ?

In fact it would be easier to learn KhoiSan language.

My guess is that a "birthday" gift @ +-150 euro would be worth the spend given the amount of time to resolve this. although, even then, one would have to translate into some form of hardware.

I found the link @aeric showed above as well (but you (/the kid) may want more).

Sony apparently is not happy with third party additions . . . . . nor the "escapee" SDK.
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Daestrum said:
This may help
udp packet spec's
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Thanks for the replies...
Apparently SDK is not needed as the game can broadcast the telemetry in UDP packets to a pre-selected ip, so wifi may suffice and I have 2 or 3 esp2866 laying around... somewhere..
I have found the UDP composition standard to this F1 2020 game, which seems to be different but retro compatible with F1 2018.
To start off, I will try to read the raw UDP packets and if I succeed, the I will keep on going...
To me, I have 2 challenges in this...
The UDP... I never worked with but seems easy enough to retrieve but a bitch to "translate "
The Graphics... showing info is easy... making it both eye appealing and readable is another ball game!
 
@Cableguy if you need help deciphering the packet data give me a shout :)
 
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