This happens to me with Xbox controllers randomly. 90% of the time they work, but then I randomly need to re-pair, reboot the Deck, toggle Bluetooth (any of these make it work again), or grab a different controller.

Where did you get the driver for it?

Damn. Oh well. Good to know though. Thanks!

This is interesting as I’m looking for the opposite answer. I want my Deck to wake up when I turn on my Xbox controller, but it doesn’t right now unless I wake it up with the power button first. If you find something outside of this thread, please let me know.

Depends if this includes games being streamed to the Deck or only ones that are running locally.

How are you running Xcloud? Are you running Windows?

Those look like standard sticks, not hall effect. It looks like these are the hall effect ones.

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