After some extensive testing here are my results …
The official PS Remote Play App using a
wired Dual Shock V2 controller didn’t work either. It gave me the exact same error, I posted above.
However, the Fire TV Stick (FTVS) and Chiaki + Dual Shock V2 worked surprisingly well with the XIM. Actually, I don’t know how or what tools you need to measure the input lag precisely. At least in my subjective opinion there is no noticeable lag at all. PS5 and FTVS are both connected to the router via Ethernet.
Now for the downside: The Share, Options, PS, and Touchpad button
are not working correctly. When pressing the PS button, you are being thrown to the FTVSs main menu. The Share button leads you back to Chiaki´s settings. And the Options and Touchpad buttons are doing nothing at all. I’m wondering whether these buttons can be remapped somehow. I found this thread where people seem to have similar issues with some buttons:
https://github.com/thestr4ng3r/chiaki/issues/169.
Even the author of Chiaki states:
The following features however are yet to be implemented:
Touchpad support (Triggering the Touchpad Button is currently possible from the keyboard though)
https://reposhub.com/cpp/miscellaneous/thestr4ng3r-chiaki.htmlJust in case anyone else wants to give it a shot, here is my current setup: I used this
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K MAX, this
USB Hub and this
OTG cable.
For the installation process I sideloaded Chiaki (current version is V 2.1.1) like described
in this YouTube video.
I downloaded Chiaki from its original source:
Chiaki - Open Source PlayStation Remote Play (metallic)https://git.sr.ht/~thestr4ng3r/chiaki/https://git.sr.ht/~thestr4ng3r/chiaki/refs/download/v2.1.1/Chiaki-v2.1.1-Android.apkHere is a shortened URL for easily putting it in the FTVSs Downloader App:
https://bit.ly/3Ed5Ypi The script for getting your Account ID:
https://git.sr.ht/~thestr4ng3r/chiaki/blob/master/scripts/psn-account-id.py (File --> Save As). As I’m on a Windows machine, I downloaded the “Windows installer (64-bit)” version of Python:
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100/After registering the console with Chiaka (entering the account ID and linking the device to the PS5) you are good to go. Just in terms of saving bandwidth, I set the resolution for the stream in Chiaki to 360p.