Screensaver not working

I can't get the screensaver to turn on for my raspberry pi 3 (running 8.1.2)

i only want to use it to turn off my ps3 controller after a certain amount of time not using it, and if i preview it then it turns off fine.

but it never activates on it's own regardless of the wait time i set.

looks like its not working because of my ps3 controller.

whenever its off the screensaver starts, but when it's on it doesn't.

it will also freeze if i turn the controller back on after previewing giving this error in the log

15:53:44.722 T:1945276992 ERROR: CPythonInvoker(14, /storage/.kodi/addons/screensaver.digitalclock/default.py): script didn't stop in 5 seconds - let's kill it

i'm guessing it has something to do with bluetooth.

Quote from escalade

This is due to a long standing Kodi bug regarding accelerometers being interpreted as actions and thus preventing the screensaver. There's a PR for it that might be included for 17.5: [Backport] Joysticks: Fix accelerometers preventing screensaver by garbear · Pull Request #12900 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

might be included?

Quote from escalade

Well yeah, depends on if they merge it. I can't see why not though, and then it'll be in the next LE release.

Alright, but when will the next le release be?

Quote from chewitt

After 17.5 ships.

is there any other way to idle timeout my controller?