Régie5

Your self-hosted media stack, on the TV, from your PS5.
A native PS5 homebrew app to keep an eye on Sonarr, Radarr, Seerr and Jellyfin (or Emby) from the couch, with a controller.

Régie5 (French for a TV control room) is for people who run their own Jellyfin (or Emby) server with the *arr apps and have a jailbroken PS5 under the TV. It shows what is coming, what is downloading, who is watching and how well, and lets you act on the few things worth doing from the couch: approve a request, stop a stream, scan the libraries, free some space.

Everything stays on your local network: Régie5 talks only to your own servers, never to the internet.

Features

Home	Upcoming episodes and films (14 days, Sonarr + Radarr calendars), recently added to Jellyfin, disk space and health alerts of every instance.
Library	Your series and films (read-only), a week-by-week TV guide, what is missing, and an optional Cleanup view.
Activity	The download queue of Sonarr and Radarr merged (title, progress, time left, status; refreshed every 5 s), and a 14-day log: imports, Seerr requests, Jellyfin playback and sign-ins, health alerts.
Requests	Seerr requests (pending / approved / all), with Approve and Decline; Seerr issues (open / resolved / all) with their comments, Resolve and Comment (ready-made sentences); Discover: search Seerr with the console's keyboard, trending, popular and upcoming films and series, a title's page, and request it (the seasons, 4K, the quality profile and folder).
Jellyfin	Who is watching what, Direct Play or transcoding and why, a playback diagnosis (source vs. sent to the client, hardware acceleration, "is the transcode keeping up?", advice), Stop playback, Scan libraries, your libraries (how many films, series and episodes, and their size) and users (when each was last active), scheduled tasks, and server load through Glances if you use it.
Settings	Connection state of every service and instance, version, Cleanup on/off, display refresh (Auto, which asks for 120 Hz / 60 Hz / 120 Hz), set-up from a phone (QR code), Quick Connect for Jellyfin (no API key to copy), the set-up screens and What's new again.

Also:

• Counters on the tabs: downloads in the queue, requests waiting for an answer, people watching.
• Emby in Jellyfin's place (beta): the same screens, which then say Emby.
• Set-up screens at the first start: choose your media server, scan a QR code, fill in a page on your phone.
• Several instances of a service (for example Radarr and Radarr 4K) are shown together, each named.
• HTTPS and reverse-proxy sub-paths (https://example.lan/sonarr), self-signed certificates on request.
• Liquid-glass interface made for a TV: large type readable from 3 m, a springy focus drop, 4K at 60 fps, 120 Hz on a display that accepts it, 60 Hz on the others.
• English, French, Spanish and German, following the console's language. The Spanish and German translations were made with the help of AI: corrections by native speakers are welcome, and so are new languages.

_{Screenshots and animation: the desktop build in demo mode (--demo), no server involved. The films and the series shown are the Blender Foundation's open movies (Big Buck Bunny, Elephants Dream, Sintel, Tears of Steel, Cosmos Laundromat, Spring, Coffee Run, Sprite Fright, Charge, Caminandes), with their posters and stills from Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0 / 4.0 (© Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org), resized or cropped; every other title is made up and gets Régie5's generated cover. Full credits: demo/CREDITS.md.}

What Régie5 changes on your servers

Almost nothing, and never without asking. It is read-only, except for these actions, each behind a confirmation whose focus starts on Cancel:

• approve or decline a Seerr request; request a film or a series in Seerr (as the account of the API key: Seerr's administrator, so the request is usually approved at once);
• resolve a Seerr issue, or post one of a few ready-made comments on it;
• stop a Jellyfin (or Emby) playback session; scan its libraries; with Quick Connect, sign in to Jellyfin (Régie5 then appears among its devices);
• Cleanup (off by default): delete a film or a series with its files in Radarr/Sonarr, always added to the import-list exclusions so no list brings it back. It is turned on in Settings after a warning, offers only titles watched and finished (by every active account, or at least one, as you choose) and not watched for months, never favourites; every deletion asks twice, one at a time.

What Régie5 will never do

No download client, no indexer, no release search, no release or tracker names anywhere: Régie5 shows titles, progress and quality, nothing else. Its activity log never reads Jellyfin's or Emby's free-text fields (which hold IP addresses and device names).

Requirements

• A jailbroken PS5 with ShadowMount+, which turns folders in /data/homebrew/ into home-screen tiles. Tested on firmware 13.60.
• A way to copy a folder to the console: ps5upload or an FTP payload.
• At least one of the services below, reachable from the console on your local network, with its API key.

Services and versions

Service	Minimum	Tested with	Used for
Sonarr	4.0	4.0	calendar, queue, series, health, disk space, history; Cleanup
Radarr	5.0	6.4	calendar, queue, films, health, disk space, history; Cleanup
Seerr	2.0 (Jellyseerr 2.x works too)	3.5	requests, approve / decline, issues (resolve, comment), Discover (search, trending, popular, upcoming) and new requests, posters through its image proxy
Jellyfin	10.9	12.2	sessions, playback info, recently added, libraries, users, activity log, scheduled tasks; Quick Connect sign-in
Emby, in Jellyfin's place (beta)	4.8	4.10.1	the same as Jellyfin; Find in Emby5 instead of Jelly5
Glances (optional)	4.0 (API 4)	4.x	server load

Each service is optional: a service turned off simply leaves its sections out. Settings tests every service and says plainly when one does not answer as expected, or when its version is older than the minimum above ("Version too old"). Versions between the minimum and the tested one should work but have not been tried; reports are welcome. Overseerr 1.x is not supported (it has no Jellyfin links).

Install

1. Download PPSA99520.zip from the latest release.
2. Unzip it on your computer: it holds a single folder, PPSA99520.
3. Copy that whole folder into /data/homebrew/ on the console (ps5upload or FTP), so that /data/homebrew/PPSA99520/eboot.bin exists.
4. Wait about ten seconds: ShadowMount+ adds the Régie5 tile to the home screen, under Games.
5. Open Régie5: at the first start, its set-up screens open (see below).

Updating: copy the new PPSA99520 folder over the old one. A release never contains a config.json, so yours is kept and the set-up screens do not open. 0.3.0 put the tile under Media; since 0.3.1 it is under Games (the Media area does not let the app open the phone page): it moves by itself after the copy. Uninstalling: delete /data/homebrew/PPSA99520.

The same steps, in English and French, are in INSTALL.txt inside the zip.

Set up

At the first start

When there is no config.json yet (or one Régie5 cannot read, or with every service off), Régie5 opens its set-up screens:

1. Get started, then choose your media server: Jellyfin, Emby or None.
2. A QR code and a 6-digit code appear: fill in the page on your phone, as below.
3. Régie5 tests every service, as Settings does. Start opens the Home screen; Fix from the phone goes back to the page.

Later closes them at any step, and they do not open by themselves again: the Home screen offers Set up until a service is set, and Settings › Setup opens them at any time. A config.json that could not be read is kept beside the new one, as config.json.invalid.

From your phone (recommended)

1. In Régie5, press R1 until the gear (Settings) is selected.
2. Choose From a phone: a QR code and a 6-digit code appear on the TV.
3. Scan the QR code with your phone, on the same network as the console (or type the address shown on the TV into the phone's browser).
4. Fill in each service: its address with the port (http://192.168.1.10:8989, https://example.lan/radarr…) and its API key. Tick Self-signed certificate for an https:// address whose certificate is self-signed.
5. Tap Save on the console: Régie5 tests every service, and each should get a green dot.

The page is served by the console on your local network only, while that window is open, and needs the code. Keys already saved are never sent back to the phone: a key field left empty keeps the saved key.

Jellyfin without an API key: Quick Connect

Give Jellyfin's address only (no key), then choose Quick Connect on the set-up screens' check, or in Settings on Jellyfin's line (Options). A 6-digit code appears on the TV: on your phone, in Jellyfin (the app or a browser), open your profile › Quick Connect and type it. Régie5 then uses that account's session, kept in config.json. Sign in with an administrator account: stopping a stream, scanning, the scheduled tasks, the activity log, the users and Cleanup need one; with another account Régie5 says so where it matters (Jellyfin's line in Settings turns orange). If the session is removed in Jellyfin (Dashboard › Devices), Settings says so: run Quick Connect again. An API key, when there is one, is used instead. Emby has no such thing on the local network: it keeps its API key.

By file

Copy config.example.json (in the app folder) to config.json in /data/homebrew/PPSA99520/, fill it in on a computer, copy it to the console, then choose Test all in Settings. Several instances of a service are a list of named instances; the fields are described in config.example.json.

Where the API keys are: Sonarr and Radarr, Settings › General › Security; Seerr, Settings › General; Jellyfin, Dashboard › API Keys (or Quick Connect, above); Emby, in the server's settings, Advanced › Api Keys › New Api Key.

Emby instead of Jellyfin: write "emby" in config.json where the example has "jellyfin" (same fields: url, apiKey). The tab, the texts and the log then say Emby; one or the other, not both (with both on, Jellyfin is used and Settings says so).

Behind a reverse proxy, the address may carry a path (https://media.lan/sonarr); see docs/CONFIG.md (in French) for the two ways to set the proxy up, and for redirects such as a login page in front of it.

Controls

Button	Action
D-pad / left stick	move
✕	select
○	back
L1 / R1	previous / next tab
L2 / R2	previous / next letter (lists by title), week (guide) or page
△	refresh the screen
Options	the selected item's menu (approve / decline, resolve / comment, keep / delete, find in Jelly5 or Emby5)
□	Discover: clear the search

Known limitations

• No "Open in Jelly5". The console does not let one app start another (sceSystemServiceLaunchApp and sceLncUtilLaunchApp are not available to apps). Options › Find in Jelly5 tells you which title to look for in Jelly5 instead.
• Emby is in beta (new in 0.4.0, marked beta in Settings): tested on the console against Emby 4.10.1.0, not yet on a real Emby server with its users and Emby Premiere. Cleanup with Emby is covered by the tests only so far. Reports are welcome in issue #1.
• Requests made from Régie5 are made as the account of Seerr's API key (its administrator), not as one of Seerr's users: they count against no one's quota and are usually approved at once. Asking on behalf of another user is not possible yet.
• Seerr after a Cleanup deletion: Seerr has no API to mark a title deleted. Its own Media Availability Sync job (nightly by default, or run by hand in Seerr › Settings › Jobs) marks it deleted, keeps its requests and lets it be requested again.
• HTTPS on the console uses TLS 1.2 (ECDHE with AES-GCM, ChaCha20-Poly1305 or AES-CBC; RSA and ECDSA certificates). A server that only accepts TLS 1.3 cannot be reached from the console.
• 120 Hz needs a display and a link that take it. Auto asks for it and stays at 60 Hz on a display that refuses it; 120 Hz chosen by hand says so in Settings. A change applies at the next start. A TV that takes 120 Hz only at a lower resolution may be sent that resolution: choose 60 Hz (Settings › Display refresh) to keep 4K.
• Library sizes come from Radarr and Sonarr (Jellyfin gives none): a title they do not know is counted but not measured, and the Jellyfin tab says how many were.
• config.json holds your API keys in plain text on the console.
• Only firmware 13.60 has been tested.

Building from source

Régie5 is developed on Linux, where the same app runs in a window (keyboard or DualSense through SDL), and can run on sample data with no server at all.

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential clang cmake ninja-build libsdl2-dev libfreetype-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libgl-dev

scripts/run-linux.sh --demo              # demo mode: open films with their posters, no server contacted
scripts/run-linux.sh --mock              # test data (made-up titles), no server contacted
scripts/run-linux.sh                     # with ~/.config/regie5/config.json
cmake --build build/linux && ctest --test-dir build/linux

On the keyboard: arrows, Enter (✕), Escape (○), Q/E (L1/R1), Z/C (L2/R2), R (△), X (□), M (Options).

The PS5 build needs the ps5-payload-sdk, pacbrew and LLVM (clang, lld, llvm):

scripts/setup-ps5-toolchain.sh           # the SDK and pacbrew, checksums verified
scripts/release-ps5.sh                   # build/ps5/release-<version>/upload/PPSA99520.zip

The design and the porting notes are in docs/ (in French).

Contributing

Bug reports and ideas are welcome in the issues. Please read the scope above first: features around download clients, indexers or release searching will not be added. docs/CONTRIBUTING.md says how to report a bug, suggest an idea, translate or change the code, and the rules every change follows.

Translations are welcome too: a language is a single file, and docs/TRANSLATING.md explains how to add one.

How Régie5 was made

Régie5 was entirely "vibe-coded" with Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic). Vivian defined the project, made every product and design decision, tested each step on Linux and on the console against a real server, and published it; the code and the documentation were written by the AI.

License and credits

Régie5 is free software under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later (see LICENSE).

It builds on the work of others, listed with their licences in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, among them: Jelly5 (the liquid-glass interface it is modelled on), OverShifted/LiquidGlass, BlackBearReloaded's ps5-opengl and ps5-homebrew-ui, the ps5-payload-sdk, Mbed TLS, cJSON, stb_image, Nayuki's QR Code generator, FreeType and the Inter typeface.

Régie5 is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the Jellyfin project, Emby, or the Sonarr, Radarr or Seerr projects. PlayStation, PS5 and DualSense are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.