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I had a similar problem with the xbox controller publishing garbage messages on startup and messing things up. I switched to the xboxdrv driver and have no more problems. It looks like it also publishes a no-buttons-pushed joy message when I take the battery out.

Here's how to set it up.

NOTE: It switches the pad buttons to be axes, so you'll have to change up your nodes using the joy message.

I had a similar problem with the xbox controller publishing garbage messages on startup and messing things up. I switched to the xboxdrv driver and have no more problems. It looks like it also publishes a no-buttons-pushed joy message when I take the battery out.

Here's how to set it up.

NOTE: It switches the pad buttons to be axes, so you'll have to change up your nodes using the joy message. EDIT: I hadn't read far enough in the man page, but it's highly configurable. It looks like you don't need to blacklist xpad if you use the right options.

I had a similar problem with the xbox controller publishing garbage messages on startup and messing things up. I switched to the xboxdrv driver and have no more problems. It looks like it also publishes a no-buttons-pushed joy message when I take the battery out.

Here's how to set it up.

NOTE: It switches the pad buttons to be axes, so you'll have to change up your nodes using the joy message. EDIT: I hadn't read far enough in the man page, but it's highly configurable. It looks like you don't need to blacklist xpad if you use the right options.configurable.