A PlayStation Remote Play client for Fire TV and Android TV. It streams your PS5 or PS4 to a TV box so you can play with a controller, over your home network or the internet.
I made it because the existing Remote Play apps don't really hold up on a Fire TV. You pair a DualSense and the buttons come out scrambled. You try to start a session and half the time you can't even select your console with the remote. akichi fixes both of those, and it's built around the remote instead of a phone touchscreen.
Independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony. "PlayStation", "PS4" and "PS5" are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Fixes the DualSense on Fire TV. On Fire OS the DualSense button layout is wrong: L1 and R1 act like the triggers, and Options and Create do nothing. It's a bug in the keylayout Amazon ships, not your controller. akichi corrects the mapping before it reaches your PS5. On by default on Fire TV, no effect anywhere else. There's a longer write-up if you want to know why it happens.
Made for a remote. You navigate the whole app with the D-pad, with a clear highlight so you always know what's selected. Consoles show up on their own when they're on the same network. Everything you need is in the top bar.
PSN sign-in without the hassle. Most clients make you find your PSN account ID by running scripts. Here you sign in once and it fills in for you. You can still paste it by hand if you'd rather.
Decent video. The decoder runs in low-latency mode, the bitrate goes up to 100 Mbps (a lot of clients stop at 50), and there's an optional H265 HDR mode for HDR TVs. Remote Play tops out at 1080p, so this isn't 4K.
Updates itself. New versions install over the old one and keep your settings.
On a Fire TV, open the Downloader app and type 2031445. It downloads and installs on its
own.
Otherwise, grab akichi-stable.apk from the
releases page and adb install it.
When it opens, your PS5 or PS4 shows up automatically as long as it's on the same Wi-Fi and Remote Play is turned on. There's also a short site if you'd rather read about it first.
CI builds the app on every push (see .github/workflows). For a local build you need the
Android SDK, NDK 25.2.9519653 and CMake. The native library (libchiaki) compiles through
the bundled CMake project.
./gradlew assembleStableDebug
The signing key is injected from a CI secret, so local debug builds fall back to the default debug key.
akichi is free and has no ads. If it's useful to you and you want to chip in, it helps me keep it maintained:
- Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/getakichi
akichi stands on Chiaki by Florian Märkl and the chiaki-ng project, plus the chiakidroid Android port. They wrote the hard part, the Remote Play protocol. This adds the Fire TV fixes and a TV-first interface on top. Full attribution is in NOTICE.
AGPL-3.0 with an OpenSSL linking exception, the same license as the projects it's based on. The complete corresponding source is in this repo. See LICENSE.