[dapharsyde]

 had a feeling you would ask for that   Here is a log from #0916 - I had to remove a bunch of clutter from the emby plugin, but the section with pairing the controller is included - https://pastebin.com/69GNU13B

What I don't understand is why the debug messages look nothing alike...#0916 shows messages from the Joystick addon, whereas #1007 shows messages from the kernel.

Thanks, but can you upload the #0916 "kodi log" using the LE Settings add-on, as you did before with #1007? This provides a combined kodi.log & system log and in this case it's the system log that I'm most interested in. If it's too large to upload (due to emby spam) then try with debug logging disabled (the kodi log isn't so relevant here) or just upload the system log with journalctl -a | pastebinit.

Edit: also can you confirm:

OK so just to be clear - #0909x (5.3-rc8) is good but #0917 (5.3.0) is bad?

Hi Milhouse - 

Thanks for the pointers.  I've disabled some plugins so the kodi log is shorter and able to be uploaded to ix.io.  I am now understanding that you prepared special "x" builds for these 5.3-rc's.  The tests I had done previously did not include these "x" builds.  Now that I understand, I have tested them and have discovered the break occurs between 0821x (rc-5) and 0827x (rc-6)

0722x - works - http://ix.io/1XYb
0814x - works - http://ix.io/1XYd
0821x - works - http://ix.io/1XYv
0827x - does not work - after pairing, does not register as controller - http://ix.io/1XYh

Edit 1: Bluetooth adapter worked in 0821x after re-plugging

Edit 2: I also tested regular #0827, and it working in this build - http://ix.io/1XZH