ezRemote Client changelog

• Reuse clients from a connection pool instead of creating new clients on every HTTP Range request This should potentially fix installing very large PKGs (> 4GB) from SMB/NFS on Synology/QNAP NAS.
• Fix race conditions on backgroud install/download. This should allow you to submit many background install request without causing the ezRemote Server to crash.

NOTE: If you are resuming from rest mode, make sure to restart ezRemote Server from the "Global Settings" dialog. The ezRemote Server version should show 1.08 for the fixes to take effect.

• fix extraction of compressed files
• throttle splitfile write speed to approx 1.5x the read speed
• fix json-c leaks
• fix install from google drive
• fix rename of google files
• fix github issues due to changes in how github redirect download links
• add support for background install of pkg in google drive
• fix backgroud download from github and google drive

• Re-built with latest ps4-payload-sdk to add support for firmware 13.02 - 13.52
• Replaced background install proxy URL localhost with 127.0.0.1. On some systems the network setup cannot resolve localhost DNS to 127.0.0.1
• Fixed crash in ezremote-server daemon when installing from FTP server
• Handle installing DLC unlocker pkg. DLC unlocker pkg can't be installed via RPI, so it's always downloaded and then installed from the PS4 disk.

• Updated the http response "Content-Range" header to include the pkg size. This fixes some issues where PKG install would fail for certain files.

• Fixed resume of background download from rest mode, caused after adding the max retries on failed download
• Fix occasion crash of app during startup.

• Fix resume of ezremote-server from rest mode

• Retry max 3 attempts for failed background download to prevent infinite retries on invalid links

• fixed background download/install of PS4 pkgs from archive.org
• used AI to translate missing translations in all language files

NEW: As of version 2.00, PS4 pkgs can be installed in the background. Use ezRemote client to connect to remote server and select pkg to install. You can then close ezRemote Client app and the package will continue installing in background. This is archieved with a new payload called ezRemote Server that is packaged together with exRemote Client. ezRemote Server runs in the background and acts as a proxy to the remote server. ezRemote Server must be started to enable backgroud installs.

• support background install from all remote servers that ezremote client supports
• support background install from file host like mediafire, google shared link, pixeldrain, real-debrid and all-debrid
• does not support background install using the options "Disk Cache" or PKGs inside zip files
• You can pause and resume installs
• After restarting PS4, you can resume installs by first reloading ezRemote Server
• From testing, background install continues even in rest mode (This isn't granteed). You may need to restart ezRemote Server payload before you can resume install
• ezRemote Server payload can be stop/restarted from ezRemote Client settngs dialog.
• Do not submit to many background installs, it can crash ezRemote Server.

NEW: As of version 2.00, You can download large files in the background.

• You can enable/disable background download in the Global settings
• You can set the minimum file size where background download will use. Default is 1GB
• In Global Settings, you can show the background download progress of all requested downloads
• Does not support rest mode. Background downloads will stop in rest mode, but will be resumed when ezRemote Server is restarted.
• If PS4 is restarted, background downloads will resume when ezRemote Server is restarted.
• Updated the Web UI, so you can download files of File shares like mediafire, google shared link, pixeldrain, real-debrid and all-debrid or any direct links

• fix random crash when installing pkg with disk cache or pkgs in zip files
• fix text editor not saving content

• minor improvement to cut/paste function. If cut/paste of files are within the same drive, the files/folders are moved instead of copied and then deleted

• Fixed installing PKGs via RPI. This function was broken after v1.33 when I upgraded the http library to support archive.org protected URLs.

• There's no change in this version. Just updated the version since the previous upload was corrupted and pkg-zome had already pulled the corrupted file into its repo.

[WARNING] For those who had download this on and before Mar 5. The pkg was corrupted causing an error after installing. This has being corrected since.

• Add support for browse and download release artifacts from github repos. Under the server just enter the git repo of the homebrew image

• Add support for archive.org protected URLs. This requires an archive.org account using archive.org username/password login
• Fix app crash when parsing archive.org protected URLs without credentials. The protected links will not be added to directory listing.

• add support for ftp servers that do not permit the NOOP cmd. This fixes the issue where the app will disconnect after connecting to the server and listing the first directory.

• Added Norwegian language support

• For failed PKG install using the "Install from URL" function, the actual error message from remote server will be displayed instead of the generic "Failed to Install" message.

• fixed an issue parsing docker version of Apache directory listing. It had trailing spaces in the folder/file name

• Add support to browsing/downloading files from https://myrient.erista.me/files website files. Should you find this useful, please donate to erista to support their cause. myrient

• Enhancements to In-App "Install from URL" to match the same options you get from WebUi.
• Add ability to use AllDebrid, RealDebrid
• Add ability to choose to install pkg via "Remote Package Install" that is the pkg isn't downloaded first and then installed
• Fixed issue where the auto-detection of language fails to choose the correct font file causing the display of "????"
• Added Vietnamese language and updated Korean/Turkish lang file

• Add support for archive.org download URLs
• This allows you to browse/download/extract/install files
• Only supports parsing of the download URL (ie the URL where you see a list of files). Example | | | | |----------|-----------|---| | archive_org_screen1 | archive_org_screen2| image |
• Add ability to use the L2 button to go up a directory

Please consider donating to Internet Archive for providing the hosting services.

• Add option to enable disk cache when installing plain PKG files.
• What this does, is creates a thread to download the PKG file to the disk in 5MB chunks in the background, while also installing the chunks at the same time. This avoids the install to make hundreds or even thousands of request to the remote server for the chunks
• Usually you should see bigger speed improvements for remote sites not on the local network. example real-debrid, public file shares, gdrive etc...
• This option only help PKG files, no speed improvement for compress files
• This option improves installs from FTP server on local network too
• Do not recommend this option if you're on Ethernet and already have decent download speeds on local network. It could make installs slower
• Increased the read buffer size for compressed files, helps improve the speed of extracting/installing of compressed files
• Fixed crash when installing compressed file in certain scenarios where error occurs when reading the content of compress file
• Fixed issue where installing from WebDav fails if server does not support the http HEAD request.

• Set the proper start time of progress when overwrite dialog prompts. Fixes incorrect Avg Transfer Speed calculation in this case.

• Fix installing of some large game patch pkgs of several 10s of GB
• Fix extracting compressed files from WebDav server
• Updated the Progress Dialog to show Average Transfer Speed instead of percentage complete
• Implemented wrap around when scrolling through the file list

• Huge speed improvement installing PKG from SMB, NFS and SFTP
• Minor speed improvement installing PKG in compressed files from SMB, NFS and SFTP
• Minor speed improvement extract compressed files from SMB, NFS and SFTP

• Minor update that allows extraction and installation of pkg in 7zip files from Remote server

• Fixed Remote Package Install for all remote servers when username/password needed. Seems like this was broken since v1.19

• fix google drive login caused by code refactor from last release

• rewrite of webdav client removing dependency on libcurl
• fixed a memory leak in webdav client

• Fix issue where the "Install URL" dialog in WebUI isn't closed after successfully sending pkg for install

• installation of patch/dlc pkg from remote servers should be completely fixed now.
• added progress meter when installing pkgs from public shares like mediafire, pixeldrain, gdrive, alldebird and realdebrid.
• added progress meter when extracting files

• - bug fix where some patch/dlc pkg fails to install from remote. Affects all remote servers smb, nfs, ftp/sftp, webdav, http, public shares like mediafire, pixeldrain, alldebrid, realdebrid etc..

• add support for real-debrid for installing pkgs via WebUI - Install URL menu

• improve speed of installing pkg from compressed files
• updated to install ALL pkgs inside compressed files. Previously, only the 1st pkg found was installed
• add ability to install pkg in compress files from public shares like mediafire, gdrive, pixeldrain and alldebrid. This is only avaliable via the WebUI, "Install URL" menu
• fix RClone file size display
• fix file list navigation jumping to top of list when last item is selected

• Add ability to install PKG files inside files like zip, rar, 7z, tar.gz, tar.bz and tar.xz on PS4 local disk
• Add ability to install PKG files inside files like zip, rar, tar.gz, tar.bz and tar.xz from FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, WebDav, HTTP Server(IIS, Ngnix, Apache/Rclone) and Goolge Drive. Installation from FTP/Google was very slow. SMB, NFS, WebDav, HTTP Server(IIS, Ngnix, Apache, Rclone) was way faster.
• Add ability to extract files from zip, rar, tar.gz, tar.bz and tar.xz from FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, WebDav, HTTP Server(IIS, Ngnix, Apache, Rclone) and Goolge Drive

Note:
Testing of installing PKG from Remote compressed files was done through ethernet only. I have no idea what the performance is like installing via wifi.

Also during the installation of PKG in compressed files, the app creates temporary 10MB chunks of small files in the /data/ezremote-client/tmp folder. These 10MB files are dynamically created and deleted as the installation progresses. Theoretically, the disk space used during the process should be very small. In case the files are not cleaned, you can manually delete these files after installation

• add compatibility with PS5 etaHEN ftp server (Can transfer files between PS4 and PS5 directly)
• increase max ftp filename length to 255
• add Ukrainian lang
• add option to change language from the settings dialog (requires restart of the app to take effect)
• enable WebUI to extract compress file formats bz2, xz, tar, tgz, rar, 7z, zip, gz

• support for all kinds of password protected zip files (zipcrypto, aes-128 and aes-256)

• Fixed crash caused by invalid SMB Url that is missing share_name
• Add support for extraction of zip, bz2, 7z, xz, rar, gz, tar compressed file formats
• Add support for password protected zip file encrypted with ZipCrypt only
• Updated to display the pkg title name instead of the title id in the notifications

• Fixed crash occurring after installing pkg from sftp server
• Add ability to install packages from shared links from Web interface. Supports Mediafire, Pixeldrain and Google shared links. For other filehost, AllDebrid account is required.
• Add support for RClone HTTP server and Webdav. This allows ezRemote Client to be able to manage files from all FileHost that RClone supports (The major ones include OneDrive, Google Drive, Azure Blob, Amazon S3, Mega, Nextcloud, Dropbox etc. See complete list at RClone webstie)

Install FPKGs directly from FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, WebDav, HttpServer(IIS/Nginx/Apache/Serve) and GoogleDrive

There is no longer any needed for hosting a separate HttpServer yourself. The embedded Web Server built into ezRemote Client acts as a Proxy between the PS4 and the Remote (FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, WebDav, HttpServer(IIS/Nginx/Apache/Serve) and GoogleDrive). There's no data written to the PS4 hard drive in the process, rather everything is streamed directly via embedded Web Server to the PS4 installer.

Only downside, is that you need to keep ezRemote Client running while the install is in progress.

Feature is in early stage.

Know Issue

1. The app crashes after installing FPKGs for SFTP server. For SFTP, continue using Download and then install.

Implemented a Web Interface for managing the PS4 files.

ezremote_client_web

Features in Web Interface

• Copy/Move/Delete/Rename/Create files/folders
• Extract 7zip, rar and zip files directly on the PS4
• Compress files into zip directly on the PS4
• Edit text files directly on the PS4
• View all common image formats
• Upload files to the PS4
• Download files from the PS4
• Install packages on the PS4

TODOS:

• Implement a Commander Like Web Interface to managing Remote sites like (FTP, SMB, NFS, HttpServe, /WEBDav, Google Drive).

How to access the Web Interface

You need to launch the "ezRemote Client" app on the PS4. Then on any device(laptop, tablet, phone etc..) with web browser go to http://<ip_address_of_ps4>:8080 . That's all.

The port# can be changed from the "Global Settings" dialog in the PS4 app. Any changes to the web server settings needs a restart of the application to take effect. Web Server can be disabled from the Settings screen also.

Credits

To the author of the File Manager UI code that was customized to work with the PS4.
https://github.com/joni2back/angular-filemanager

• Add support for NFS shares
• The url format for NFS is

   nfs://hostname[:port]/export_path[?uid=<UID>&gid=<GID>]

     - hostname can be the textual hostname or an IP address. hostname is required
     - port is optional and defaults to 2049 if not provided
     - export_path is required
     - uid is the UID value to use when talking to the server. Defaults to 65534 if not specified.
     - gid is the GID value to use when talking to the server. Defaults to 65534 if not specified.

     Special characters in 'path' are escaped using %-hex-hex syntax.

     For example '?' must be escaped if it occurs in a path as '?' is also used to
     separate the path from the optional list of url arguments.

     Example:
     nfs://192.168.0.1/my?path?uid=1000&gid=1000
     must be escaped as
     nfs://192.168.0.1/my%3Fpath?uid=1000&gid=1000

• Added support for Shared Drives from Google workspaces
• Added ability to view Image files like jpg, png, bmp and webp. Selecting these images with the X button from the File browser with open the image
• Selecting common text files with the extension txt, log, ini, json, xml, conf, config, html with the X button from the File browser will open in the Text Editor. For other file types, continue to edit the files via the Actions menu.
• Add ability to Preview pkg files. Selecting a pkg file with the X button in the File browser will now display a dialog showing the icon and SFO attributes of the file.
• Changed to use the OPTIONS button to exit application. Previously it was the Touch pad.
• Updated to use the O button close the Dialogs except for the Text Editor dialog.

• add ability to copy/paste lines in text editor
• hidden files in SFTP servers are now hidden by default. Added new option in settings to show hidden files.
• fixed bug #7 where long file names are incorrectly parsed on nginx http server causing download/install issues
• fixed issue where spaces in the filename would cause RPI to fail for http servers
• modified some error messages to be more meaningful

• Added support for Secure FTP URL format

  sftp://hostname[:port]

  - hostname can be the textual hostname or an IP address. hostname is required
  - port is optional and defaults to 22(sftp) if not provided  

Use of identity files is possible. Put both the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub into a folder in the PS4 hard drive. Then in the password field in the UI, instead of putting a password, reference the folder where id_rsa and id_rsa.pub is place. Prefix the folder with "file://" and do not password protect the identity file.

  Example: If you had placed the id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files into the folder /data/ezremote-client,
  then in the password field enter file:///data/ezremote-client

• Misc bug fixes

• Fixed crash upon opening the "Settings"

• Added the ability to connect to your "Google Drive" to transfer files back and fort. Can also install packages from it. The app will download the file to the PS4's harddrive and then install it. You need to keep the app opened. Here is a link to the wiki for what you need to do to make it work. Also able to access files that are shared to you. https://github.com/cy33hc/ps4-ezremote-client/wiki/Setup-App-for-use-with-Google-Drive

• Implemented a very simple text editor. Not recommended to edit large files. By default it's capped at 32kb, but you can edit the config file under the /data/ezremote-client/config.ini and increase the limit. Also limited to edit a single line of max 1023 characters long

• Add a "New File" option to create an empty file on either PS4 local drive on remote servers that allow file creation.

• All password/secrets are encrypted when saved to the config file

• Improved usability. For single file operation, no longer need to select file with square before menu items are enabled
• Added Cut/Copy/Paste for files on PS4 local drive and WebDAV Server
• Added back option for Remote Package Installation for FTP/SMB/WebDAV. When RPI is not possible, user is given the option to download and install.
• Added support for connecting to HTTP Servers like Apache, Nginx, Microsoft IIS, Serve (NodeJs) with html directory listing enabled.
• Added support for extracting 7zip and RAR files.

Breaking Change
Previously WebDAV servers were prefixed with "http://" and "https://", from current release WebDAV Servers needs to be prefixed with "webdav://" and "webdavs://". Now "http://" and "https://" will be used for prefix of HTTP Server. The app will auto-convert the prefix on first run of the new version.

Initial Release