Being able to disable the default gamepad controller in Kryton 17.1

I have an Xbox One S as well as an ASRock BeeBOX based Kodi HTPC. As the default gamepad in Kodi 17.1 is based on the Xbox 360, and can’t be disabled, I need to cover the IR port on the BeeBOX when I use the Xbox (else the Kodi box goes all to hell :-). So, can we have the gamepad controller able to be disabled in Kodi please?