[themoonisachees]

The thing uses Bluetooth for mission-critical controls, so maybe assuming that they implemented best practices is not exactly correct.

[archagon]

The Logitech controller they used uses a proprietary wireless dongle, not BT. No pairing is involved.

[scarab92]

The fascination with the gaming controller is a bit silly.

It's not safety critical like the ability to drop ballast is. If something goes wrong with it you just kill propulsive power, resurface, and replace it. Also more engineering effort will have gone into making the controller reliable by its manufacturer than most would want to be able to justify spending creating something custom.

[activiation]

But a lot of owners of this controller had serious issues with it.

[catiopatio]

Why is that notable?

I wouldn’t expect it to be more reliable - or less likely to cause harmful interference — than using Bluetooth.

[archagon]

I just see this mistake a lot. I own this controller, and as long as it's reasonably close to the dongle, the connection is rock-solid. No disconnections as you would get with a bonafide Bluetooth link -- the dongle is paired to the controller out of the box.

[bilekas]

> The thing uses Bluetooth for mission-critical controls

Mission critical - I'm not a marine, but as I heard they did have redundancies for buoyancy. If the best of the worst happened, I would guess they would have surfaced pretty soon..