I have been using a Asrock ion 330 for years now with a Xbox 360 controller. At first i ran ubuntu with xbmc installed and a special driver for the controller. Later i ran KodiUbuntu and after that openelec and libreelec which both had support for the controller. I only had to change the keymap settings when updating to the latest kodi 16.x version and that’s what i’m still running and it’s fine.
Because my asrock ion 330 is almost 9 years old i’ve been thinking to replace it with a Asrock Beebox-S 7100 (kabylake) so i would be able to play HEVC and 4K but i need the controller support!
So before i go ahead and spend 500 euro’s on a asrock beebox i decided to test first with my HP Core i3 Skylake laptop just to see how good or bad kodi 17 works and what to expect because usually when you update there is alot of problems.
So at first i tried the Windows 10 kodi 17 version from the windows store. It does not seem to be super stable but plays 4K nicely and the xbox 360 controller gets reconized immediately and works, but when i tried to put in my own keymap.xml that does not work!! I put it in the right folder but it does not seem to read the file. It’s the same keymap i have in my libreelec. Does it need to be different for windows?
For the record, i don’t want to run KODI on windows 10 anyways because i don’t like the spying but just for test it’s fine.
So secondly i downloaded libreelec 8.x and “installed” on a USB stick, not my laptop’s SSD. But when i boot it… it reconizes the controller but it does not work!! it says. Do you want to configure your controller? So i’m wondering does librelec 8.x support xbox 360 controllers ? I also put in my own keymap.xml but nothing changes… the xbox 360 controller just does well nothing. The light on the controller ring burns but that’s about it. Any ideas ?
I also tried openelec.. but that does not fully boot for some reason.
Point is…i wanna make sure i can get the xbox 360 controller to work before i order a new box.