Recently, the team behind Kodi added controller support, however since this is in the very early stages, I will walk you through setting up any controllers supported by windows. Controllers can be a great way to navigate through Kodi, especially if you don't have a remote control to do this.
Ok, so to start we're going to need to turn on controller support in Kodi, to do this, you need to go to the Settings menu, and then head on down as far as System settings. Then go to Input Devices.
When in Input Devices enable to option shown below:
If you have a controller supported by Kodi, you should be finished and can navigate through Kodi already. The list of default options are shown in this picture from the Kodi team.
If you can't navigate yet, don't worry, keep reading.
Xpadder
The easiest way I've found to configure an unsupported controller is with Xpadder. The version I've linked is an older, freeware version, if you wish to pay for the most recent version, you can do so here. Once you have downloaded that, run it, and it should extract all the necessary files to your download directory. If it doesn't do this, you may need to download and install 7-zip.
Once the contents have been extracted, navigate to the folder and run the program Xpadder.exe. As we are using an older version of Xpadder, you may need to run Xpadder in compatibility mode.
To do this, right click on the icon, click on the Compatibility tab and then tick the box as shown below. Open the drop-down menu and select Windows XP (Service Pack 3) and finally click Ok.
Run the program and click start, then click program location, and you should choose to associate the files on the final dialog box.
I don't want to make to make this post too long, so we'll call that a day for now, and move on to the mapping tomorrow!
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