PSN login
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Reason for the PSN login#back to top
- Some users have problems with the PSN login because either they don't want to perform a PSN login because of security concerns or because they receive some strange errors like "A connection to the server could not be established" from the official Sony login web-page. Please note: PSPlay doesn't have at any time access to your PSN email address or password. PSPlay is using the official PSN login web-page from Sony and PSPlay only has access to your PSN Online-ID and your Account-ID after a successful login. These two data are stored encrypted on your device and nowhere else.
- -Why is the PSN login needed anyway? Well, since the PS4 firmware update 7.0 Sony decided to use the Account-ID for registering a Remote Play client with a PlayStation rather then using the Online-ID (PSN user name) like before. This Account-ID is a unique number which is an identifier for your PSN profile. Upon registering with your PlayStation this Account-ID must be sent to your console or it won't allow to register. Furthermore, if you want to use the automatic remote connection feature a PSN login is needed because it requires PSN credentials.
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If you can not perform a PSN login within PSPlay because of a CAPTCHA problem or because of an error message like this "A connection to the server could not be established" you can click on "Problems?" on the top right corner:
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On the next screen click on "OPEN PSN LOGIN WEBSITE". The PSN login website will be opened on the default browser of your device. Perform now a PSN login. If you're having similar login issues as before, open the login URL in a browser on another device and perform the PSN login.
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After a successful login, you should now see a white redirect page. Copy the URL from the address bar of your browser and go back to PSPlay.
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Back in PSPlay paste the URL in the "PSN login redirect URL" textbox and PSPlay should now be able to finish the login.
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Register without a PSN login - -
PSPlay allows it to directly enter the Account-ID during the registration process by activating the "Advanced Settings", if you do this, you will NOT need to sign in to PSN in PSPlay. Just keep in mind that without a PSN login an automatic remote connection can not be performed. You can find below three methods of how you can query your Account-ID:
- -1. The most easiest way is to write me an email at f.grill160@gmail.com. All you need to tell me is your PSN Online-ID (your PSN user name/ nickname). However, as I really receive a lot of emails and handling all of them is sometimes not that easy you might want to try one of the two other options down below.
- -2. I have written a small program for Windows which allows it to query the Account-ID for a specific user which is available here. You must perform here a PSN login as well in order to query the Account-ID but the program is open-source and available here so you can verify easily by yourself that there isn't anything harmful happening. Some short instructions about the program can be found here.
- -3. Currently not working anymore because of trinket website restrictions. You can go to a PC and open this web-page. Just follow all the instructions on that web-page. Please note, in the result of the trinket website your actual Account-ID is next to the user_id variable and should look something like this
'user_id': '4474834823397313449'
It consists ONLY of numbers. Thanks to CSystem77 for providing this script at trinket.io.
If you have successfully queried your Account-ID you can register with your PS5/ PS4 manually without performing a PSN login. In the Register view of PSPlay just activate the "Advanced Settings" check "Register PS5 manually"/ "Register PS4 manually" and add the Account-ID in the textbox.
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