Kodi Community Forum

so I originally crated a thread here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=210551 specific to linux, as thats what I use primarily.

However, I just installed Kodi-Windows on my desktop (Win7) and experienced the exact same issue. Run Kodi, it's constantly scrolling to left, non stop.
At the time, I had my Razer Sabertooth (Xbox 360 Controller by Razer) plugged in, and based on the previous thread I started, I decided to see if unplugging it made any difference. Lo and behold, the problem stopped as soon as I unplugged my Sabertooth. Plug it back in, problem starts up again.

Based on the fact that the problem is happening on both Kodi-Linux, and Kodi-windows, with two different controllers, leads me to think the problem isn't OS specific, but more a problem with Kodi itself.

Is the deadzone for controllers within Kodi set too low and thus reading any controller plugged in as being constantly holding down left thumbstick?

I can confirm this behaviour with two original MS Xbox 360 wireless controller for windows on Win7 x64. Kodi Helix.

Things I have tried:
-disabled webserver/http control(thought my android remote goes mad)
-completly removed user-settings and started with a clean setup(thought my migrated gotham settings got messed up)
-changing skin and disabling addons except PVR
-tried portable mode
-disconnected the controller and connected a different Xbox controller

For me this issue is hard to reproduce. It works for a week maybe and then occurs randomly again.

Didn't expect this to be a problem with both wired and wireless controllers. Might be worth to test the next nightly cuz it cleans up some more keymap stuff.

I saw that 14.2 is under regression testing. Any chance this issue has been diagnosed / taken care of?

Not that I know of. I'm honestly not sure if the issue is that we have a bug, or that our default "dead zone" is too low. If it's the dead zone for the sticks then this can be manually changed in advancedsettings.xml (wiki): http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.x...erdeadzone

I didn't see this mentioned yet - perhaps because you use the game controller in Kodi? But turning off "joystick and gamepad support" in Settings->System->Input devices fixed this problem for me when my steering wheel was making navigation with a remote impossible.

Sure, but I assume that some people want to actually use the gamepads to control Kodi as well :)