Blipfrog

Firmware

Updates are free, forever.

Every Bridge can be updated, every update is free, and every update is optional. If yours works the way you want it to, you never have to touch this page.

Blipfrog Bridge firmware

Current release. Includes the on-device control panel.

v0.8.7 Download .uf2

Previous stable

No control panel. Keep this one if you'd rather not change anything.

v0.7.2 Download .uf2

Both files are for the Bridge only. Don't flash them to anything else.

The panel

The control panel lives on the dongle.

Plug the Bridge in and it also shows up as a small read-only drive called DS5 BRIDGE. Open the page inside it and you get a proper control panel — connection status, a pairing button, a report rate switch (250 Hz, 500 Hz, or full speed, which takes the cap off entirely), and test controls for rumble, the triggers and the light bar.

Nothing is installed and nothing phones home. The panel is a single file carried on the device itself, so it works on a machine that has never seen a Blipfrog before and it can't go out of date relative to your firmware.

Needs Chrome or Edge — the panel talks to the dongle through WebHID, which Firefox and Safari don't support.

How to update

The Bridge uses the standard Raspberry Pi bootloader, so updating is a drag-and-drop. It takes about thirty seconds and you cannot brick it — if a flash goes wrong, you just do it again.

  1. Download the .uf2 file above.
  2. Unplug the Bridge from your PC.
  3. Hold down the small BOOTSEL button on the board through the opening in the case, and while holding it, plug the Bridge back in.
  4. Let go. A drive called RPI-RP2 appears in File Explorer.
  5. Drag the .uf2 onto that drive. The drive disappears on its own — that means it worked.
  6. Re-pair your controller with PS + Create.

If the RPI-RP2 drive doesn't appear

You let go of BOOTSEL too early, or the USB cable you're using is charge-only. Try again holding the button until a second after the plug is seated, and use the cable that came in the box.

Release notes

v0.8.7 — control panel

  • Added the on-device control panel and an optional desktop tray app.
  • Live connection status, a pairing button, and rumble and trigger test controls.
  • Carries everything on the device — no download needed to use it.

v0.7.2 — pairing fixes

  • Fixed a pairing failure that could not be recovered from. Once a controller had been re-paired somewhere else — a PS5, or a second dongle — the Bridge kept offering the old stored key, the controller rejected it, and that pair could never succeed again. Re-flashing didn't clear it, because stored keys survive a firmware write.
  • The Bridge now forces a fresh pair whenever it finds a controller by scanning, and tears the link down immediately on an authentication failure.
  • A failed first attempt now goes back to scanning instead of going dark.
  • Scanning continues until a controller is found, rather than timing out.

This bug predates our changes and affected the upstream firmware too. If your Bridge shipped before September 2026 and has ever refused to re-pair, this is the update that fixes it.

Open source

The Bridge firmware is built on the open-source ds5dongle project by awalol. We're grateful for it — the product would not exist without that work. Our changes are the pairing fixes and the control panel described above.

See the legal and licenses page for full attributions, license texts, and source availability.

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