Windows 10: Check Battery Status of Wireless 360 Controller?

How to do it? I have PS3 controller and using SCP toolkit, to emulate 360controller

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Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Battery Status

After the Windows 10 November 2015 Update -Battery Level- is not available. But I finally found a
solution!

The problem occurs because the new Windows build 10586 (November 2015 update) has a new driver which doesn't support this feature.

Please follow through:

1. Make sure that that the Xbox DVR is turned off in the Xbox app (otherwise you get the DVR when pressing the Xbox button)

2. Install the Xbox 360 Gaming software 1.2 (That's the Windows 7 version 32bit or 64bit) and restart PC.

3. In device manager under 'Xbox 360 Peripherals' double click 'Xbox 360 Wireless receiver for Windows'

Click the 'Driver' tab and click 'Update Driver...'. Click 'Browse my computer for driver software'

Click 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'

You will see (at least) 2 drivers listed here. Click on the driver with version 2.1.0.1349 and click next to complete the installation

Now the Battery Level is shown when you click the Xbox button on the Xbox 360 wireless controller! Yes!!



Update: Perhaps you're better off using the default Windows 10 driver. I think the old driver doesn't work as well.

 

Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Battery Status

On Windows 8.1, I used to use Microsoft Xbox 360 Accessories to be able see my controller's battery status. This was accessible by pressing the logo on the controller.

However with Windows 10, the Game DVR was introduced. Pressing the logo on my controller opens the Game DVR instead and now I can't get to my battery status.

I can only do this if I disable Game DVR.

Is there any plans to merge the battery status into the Game DVR? If not, I believe there should be.

[Moved from: Windows / Gaming on Windows 10]

 

Xbox 360 Controller for Windows Battery Life

Hi Bryan,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

We understand that you want to know how to be notified that the battery is going low in your Xbox360 console in windows 10 computer. As of now, there is no such provision. However, you may refer the answer given by Stefanos Michanetzis dated November
18, 2015 and check if the issue persists.

Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Battery Status

Please let us know if you need any further assistance.

Thank you.