How To Check Battery Level On Xbox One Controller Pc

To check the bombardment level of your wireless Xbox I Controller is not that trivial on a Windows 10 PC. You lot might think that Microsoft gives you a working solution out of the box just I was spending quite a lot of fourth dimension finding out what is the correct way to do it. Information technology turns out there isn't an official solution that works well. But thanks to the developer community at that place is a smart solution that helps. And so let's run across what are the options you can choose from.

The Official Solution from Microsoft

The Xbox App

This should be the best since, it is Microsoft with their own stuff, right?

On Windows x the Xbox App is pre-installed. It gives you a lot of Xbox goodies but nothing about your accessories. So do not waste matter your fourth dimension on it to check the bombardment level.

The Xbox Accessories App

For the Xbox One Controller Microsoft wrote an app called Xbox Accessories. Here you can update your controller's Firmware, remap your keys, and of form, you should exist able to check the battery status of your controller. Now here is the problem with the app. It cannot see your controller unless you plug it in with a cable.

To Configure Plug Your Controller In

When you do so, the battery condition indicator only says: "Battery level: Plugged in".

Battery Level Plugged In

Not so useful if you only want to encounter if you should charge or not your controller.

The Steam Solution

The mostly OK solution.

If you have Steam installed, when you are in Big Picture Mode y'all tin find this overnice battery indicator logo on the top right corner.

Steam Battery Status On Home Page

If the battery indicator icon is missing y'all can bank check the controller settings out in the Settings by clicking on the gear icon.

Hither you might see this icon on the top right corner side by side to the clock.

battery indicator

If you still do not come across information technology, you might desire to go to the Controller Settings section to check out if your controller is recognized by the system.

controller settings

If it is yous can check out the "Identify" button.

detected controllers

For some reason sometimes it is non enough and information technology still won't bear witness the bombardment icon for the controller, but when I repeated the same steps for a few times it really showed up.

The Open Source Solution from GitHub (The Dev Customs)

https://github.com/NiyaShy/XB1ControllerBatteryIndicator/releases

And also the best solution I have found so far.

It is initially implemented past Robert Beekman (on GitHub as SpoinkyNL) and further polished past NiyaShy

This solution is hosted on GitHub as an open source project. If you lot want you can read everything information technology can do and as well you tin contribute to it if you feel so.

Information technology is a really discrete app, that shows a niggling icon in your starting time card as a status indicator for your Xbox 1 Controller battery. Can you spot it?

When you hover over, information technology displays a more detailed status.

It also claims that information technology works with multiple Xbox 1 Controllers equally well that I couldn't test and ostend yet. Let me know in the comments if it actually does.