Spontaneous failure to relay controller commands to host

[alanhogan]

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Today, mid-game session, on Bazzite, Sunshine stopped relaying controller input to the game.

This error bizarrely persisted through full system restarts of both the host and client, and even when using different clients (I used Moonlight on Apple TV and an Xbox One; same issue.)

The controller works locally on the client but no controller input makes it to the game anymore.

I have no idea what changed.

I did connect a physical (wired Logitech) controller to he host recently, but between doing that and when the bug began, I played hours of the same game remotely, including restarting the game (and not restarting the system)

I am utterly baffled as to why this is happening

[alanhogan]

Sunshine version: 2026.311.154809 (pre-release, which is the only option I have on Bazzite AFAIK)

Moonlight clients: Latest stable versions for Xbox and Apple TV

[alanhogan]

Probably a dupe of LizardByte/Sunshine#2293 if the final comment is true:

One thing I have found was If I had another controller installed it would put the Moonlight Virtual gamepad as controller 2 and it would not work. Ya would need to disable other controllers or force the virtual controller as controller 1

If this is indeed the cause, Sunshine could attempt to force the 'remote controller' to be 'controller 1' or, at minimum, detect the conflict and warn the user that their controller will not be the primary controller unless the other controller is removed from the host

[alanhogan]

Indeed, unplugging my controller fixed things right away, no further system restarts required.