Hi Substring,
Thanks for replying - I was going to try and message you on github seeing as you seemed to know about it, but decided to just try these forums in the end.
Thanks, that's great - will do, and I'l report back. I hope I can get it working - I have an old ps3 controller that I can use if not, but the Xaomi pad is a really nice controller, outdated bluetooth aside - although the ps3's rather flabbier and imprecise feeling analogue sticks do make the N64 games that bit more 'authentic' 
Hi,
I installed Recalbox 4.1.0 yesterday on a Raspberry Pi 3. I'm having trouble getting it to pair with my Xiaomi Bluetooth Wireless Gamepad. I've seen this here:
https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/issues/1220
Which seems to indicate any issues with this pad should have been solved with 4.1.0. Can anyone else confirm? Is there something special I need to do that i'm not?
When I try to pair, the controller shows up - and the name is indeed a load of Chinese characters, which someone in the thread above seemed to suggest may have been a problem. When I click to pair, it simply fails.
Aside: I actually was previously using Recalbox 4.0 on a pi 2 with a generic bluetooth dongle - I had this pad working well, but just the once - on subsequent occasions when I tried to pair it again it would fail. This was one of the reasons I upgraded!
All suggestions welcome! Thanks.