Typical use: inject bfpilot.elf. It starts the UI first, then installs or refreshes the BFPL00001 Media tile when needed. There is no second installer ELF.

Data layout: everything lives under /data/BFpilot only (logs, search index, shortcuts, archive jobs).

Features

Browse & transfer

Two transfer flows: copy or move straight to a target, or stage items, navigate, and choose Paste Here
Places: /, /data, /data/homebrew, /user, /mnt, USB/ext when plugged in, custom shortcuts
Upload files or a whole folder using the picker or drag-and-drop (recursive dropped folders need the browser's WebKit entry API)
Download, copy, move, rename, mkdir, recursive delete
Load payload: double-click .elf/.bin/.js (or toolbar) to send it to elfldr on port 9021
Progress + cancel on big jobs; overwrite/merge/skip when the destination already exists
Free space check before copy/move when size is known
Same-device, no-symlink recursive traversal with a 64-level depth cap and immediate abort on fatal storage/vnode errors
ShadowMountPlus warning before writes to its common scan roots
Single-click selects; double-click opens folders; the Open button works with controllers
Circle/browser Back returns through folder history; active operations block accidental navigation, and returning to a parent reveals the folder just left
The last successful folder and sort mode survive a browser reload; long paths keep their rightmost component visible
Folder size is calculated when a folder is selected

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
Create/edit common source, config, markup, script, CSV, and .shn text files, max 5 MB; UTF-8 validation, change-conflict detection, atomic save, and preservation of an existing UTF-8 BOM/newline style
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

Transfer performance

HTTP keep-alive (up to 64 requests per connection)
2 MiB page-aligned upload and download buffers
Listen socket asks for 4 MiB RCVBUF / 4 MiB SNDBUF
Large copies use a bounded two-slot 8 MiB read/write pipeline; small files use the serial fallback
Sustained copy/upload/ZIP output checkpoints writeback every 256 MiB
No bulk TCP_NODELAY, no multi-GB posix_fallocate while uploading

More detail: upload tuning and the performance/stability design.

Install

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

python3 payload_sender.py <PS5_IP> 9021 bfpilot.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.

Output: bfpilot.elf

inspect-imports verifies the one-ELF PS5 ABI, requires both AppInstUtil and its IPMI dependency, and rejects obsolete helper artifacts.

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

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
BF_ALLOW_PS5_WRITE=1 PS5_IP=<PS5_IP> make ps5-transfer-perf

Compatibility

BFpilot follows the established one-payload installer pattern: AppInstUtil and SceIpmi are linked for the direct Media-tile path. Full-content PKG installation uses a fresh loopback-only worker embedded inside the same bfpilot.elf; there is still no second file to install or inject. The HTTP listener is brought up before tile work, AppInst initialization is bounded, and clean reinjection stops the private worker before handing over port 5905.

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

Credits

owendswang/ps5-web-file-manager — file-manager UX and safety research
Elf Arsenal — recursive drag-and-drop upload concept
ps5upload — PS5 transfer/traversal reference
ps5-payload-dev — SDK / websrv
UnRAR (Alexander Roshal)
miniz
LZMA SDK (Igor Pavlov)

Third-party code under third_party/ keeps its own licenses. The upstream audit and adopt/reject rationale are documented in docs/UPSTREAM_FILE_MANAGER_COMPARISON.md.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for the full text.

Copyright (c) ItsBlurf and contributors.
No warranty — the software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind; authors are not liable for claims arising from use of the software.

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