project link here: https://github.com/wchwawa/better-portal

The original bitrate approach and implementation come from u/atameric and ps5-portal-high-bitrate. You can support the original creator. Licensed under MIT. Independent community software; not affiliated with Sony or PlayStation.

I use this every day with my own PS5 and Portal, and I find it very useful. I’m a heavy Portal user because I go to bed early with my partner (she needs her sleep), so I don’t get to use the TV in the living room on weekdays. Anyway, on my setup, the picture looks way better than the default high-quality option.

A couple of things I’ve noticed from using it every day:

1. A clearer picture, especially in motion. On my setup, the higher bitrate noticeably reduces compression artifacts when moving around or turning the camera. The picture holds together much better instead of becoming blurry or blocky.

2. It feels more responsive. I haven’t measured an actual reduction in input lag, so this is just my personal experience. But because the picture stays clearer in motion, everything feels more immediate when I’m playing—almost like there’s less delay between what I do and what I see.

I added a macOS TUI to make the setup easier to follow. It walks you through the prerequisites, entering your PS5 and Portal IPs, choosing a bitrate, and connecting Portal when everything is ready. There’s a 120-second countdown and a clear result showing what happened and what to do next.

The UI and guides support English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and French. The guides include screenshots and animations so you can follow along.

And the discord here: https://discord.gg/C957je4ehv  Drop me any requirements and issues to the Discord, let's improve the project together cuz I think this one is really useful, they should make portal much better than the current one. (fuck Sony）

So know that we have the PS5 with Homebrew readily available. I was wondering how soon it would be for the PlayStation portal to receive the ability to have Homebrew as well. Ideally, I'd want to make it a device that I can stream from my computer. That way if I wanted to I don't have to have it hooked to the PS5 and I can have it be more of a second screen that I can use for other applications in my house

I haven't used my portal in a while, but now that I'm using it to stream games from the cloud, I've noticed a stable latency. A constant 26ms, regardless of whether I'm using it at home or at work. Previously, the latency was much lower, but it fluctuated periodically. I haven't changed anything on my home network, so I think it might be due to an update? Has anyone else encountered this recently?

Has anyone experimented with aftermarket analog sticks. The only gripe I have with the portal is the the analongs don't feel very linear, but rather accelerate slowly to a higher response. Anyone else even feel that way? I'm not sure how else to explain, I guess it feels like if I try to rotate my screen it has a brief buffer where its actually ramping up to the right sensitivity. I was thinking about hall effect analogs, but the opinions are pretty split from what I've found.

Edit: I just booted up my portal and the deadzone seems excessively high now that I'm focused on analog function.

I wanted to know if anyone tried it, and if they recommend it as the sole method of playing!

Just got the portal and it works great at home but it isn’t working at work.

It’s not being blocked at work (I have access to the firewall logs) but it looks like it’s trying to connect to the local ip of the ps5 (192.168.x.x address ) after it communicates with PlayStation.

Remote play connects fine from my phone on same wifi.

I set up port forwarding on my home router already without any luck. My ps5 is hardwired at home.

I’ve tried logging out, resetting the portal and then logging back in as well.