All my controllers stopped working in steam

[bjb1959]

Prior to building and installing xow all of my controllers were seen by, and worked in steam but I wanted to see if my xbox elite series 2 would work better with the xbox dongle so I built and installed xow per instructions and rebooted. my controllers are recognized and set up and steam sees them but they do nothing. none of the buttons work, can't calibrate, can't map buttons etc just nothing. I completely uninstalled xow and plugged in my other dongle that had worked fine in the past and rebooted. Now none of my controllers work with steam at all. What is it xow would have done to break my bluetooth?