fixes #25490
I am not shure if kodi can access the plugins from the system path without linking them kodi's home directory plugin path, but that would be a separate more generic plugin issue.

at least if you link the created plugin directory with that version to your home plugin path and you have the original skin in kodi (so you can open the input configuration dialog in kodi) and you setup the buttons through that dialog it works. while 1.3.6 has a incompatible abi, 1.3.2 is the correct version that is compatilbe with Krypton!

technicaly it should work with 17.03 too, could not test it, didnt realise that I had to use the original kodi skin to be able to use the joystick configuration dialog, but than it should work. Can't see that patch have any negative side effects, so depending on your policy I would suggest merge it with the 17.03 branch too.

I can confirm this commit also makes a Sony DualShock 4 v2 controller work with Kodi.

BTW, you don't need to symlink the plugin manually into your home directory.
If you want to enable the joystick plugin in Kodi you can simply add the following to your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix :

  nixpkgs.config = {
    kodi = {
      enableJoystick = true;
    };
  };

After doing nixos-rebuild switch to activate your new configuration (and after removing the symlink you created manually) it should just work. However, if you have installed Kodi with nix-env -i, then probably you'd need to upgrade Kodi with nix-env -u (I'm not entirely sure because I don't use nix-env).

When I look at the continuous-integration tests that did fail it looks like that has nothing to do with my package.

It looks more that whatever tree it tries uses kodi itself seem to fail to compile:

cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/r7syh7mfdm9f65zyrc3jg89zg0rw627z-kodi-plugin-peripheral.joystick-1.3.2.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built

Why does a bug in kodi compilation unrelated to my package stop the merge of my changes?

I commited it over a month ago, @wizeman agrees that it fixes joystick support for kodi. I don't really get why its so complicated to merge than bugfix.

Its pretty streight forward, the 1.3.7 peripheral.joystick package is defect cause incompatible, switching to 1.3.2 fixes that problem, there are no regressions, so merge it!

If you have buggy tests or kodi is not building correctly fix it, but dont block this merge with things that are unrelated to this bugfix.

Thanks!

Backported to 17.09.