Done some research and apparently the MS wireless controller goes into sleep mode after so many minutes of inactivity and now I think of it, when using it on my gamer PC it has done this if I leave the game for a while or have a coffee. This has not been a problem in the past, as I would just hit the centre guide button to reconnect and just carry on.

 

Not so in this application, once the controller goes into sleep mode (the centre guide button LED goes out), the "spy" dialog still shows my controllers "except" the 360. It has not reconnected (only with the pc).

 

solution? Going out to buy a cheap hard wired controller just for this application.

 

Thanks for your help,

Thanks for the report and info Rick.

 

Stephen :-)