MoHadiShibli--Control4Free/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

Versions follow Semantic Versioning: PATCH for fixes, MINOR for features that break nothing, MAJOR for anything people rely on that changes.

1.1.0 — 2026-10-06

Rumble and the light bar.

• When a game rumbles a controller, the device driving it feels it: an Android phone buzzes, and a gamepad playing as that controller rumbles too, though not every controller supports vibration in the browser. A gamepad that can't be rumbled says so on its row.
• The page glows in the controller's light-bar colour, the player colour the PS4 gives each user or whatever the game sets, brightened from the quarter strength the PS4 uses.
• Each controller shows the name of the PS4 user signed in on it.
• An Invite button shows the page's address as a QR code, so friends can scan it and join. The console makes the code, so the page still needs no libraries.
• The page says "Choose user on PS4" rather than "on TV": not everyone plays on a TV.
• Protocol: the status reports the light bar's colour in color and the signed-in user in user; the service sends rumble as {"method": "v", "params": [pad, large, small]}; a new invite method returns the QR code. See docs/protocol.md.

1.0.0 — 2026-10-05

First release.

Control4Free is a GoldHEN payload that turns a phone or PC into a PS4 controller that works everywhere: the home screen, the sign-in screen and games. Up to four of them, through the PS4's own virtual-device API, with the PS4's own "Who's using this controller?" screen deciding who each one is.

• A controller page the service serves itself on port 4264: a DualShock 4 on the screen, keyboard keys, or any gamepad the browser can see. A layout editor, key remapping and a per-gamepad controller picker, saved on each device.
• An app for the PS4's home screen, under Applications, that starts and stops Control4Free, shows its address and a QR code and the number of connected controllers, and sets up GoldHEN's AutoRun so the console starts it by itself after every restart.
• The page can be kept on a phone's home screen.
• Input is reported the moment it arrives, at a DualShock 4's own 4 ms rate while a player is doing something, and at a slow keepalive while nobody is.
• Connecting a controller never stops the other players being served.
• Recovers by itself after rest mode or a network failure. Controllers have to be picked again after rest mode, which signs every user out.
• Open on the local network by design, with no pairing. What that does and does not protect is written down in SECURITY.md.

Tested on firmware 10.01 with GoldHEN v2.4b18.10. Rumble, light bar and motion are not passed on.