GMYLE / HAMA - Vista MCE Remote Config

[naverave]

I recently bought a gmyle remote from amazon GMYLE REMOTE VISTA MCE REMOTE to use with rasp pi and latest xbian. Out of the box it kinda works, volume down doesn't work, info and backspace etc. work. I need to totally configure it and not sure how. I tried to follow a guide which seems perfect for my remote but I hit a wall. Perfect Guide for me

I was able to create under /dev/input two more symlinks: irremote0 and irremote1:

I was not sure if inputlirc was already installed as I could not find the directory so I installed it.

Bullet point 2.1 in guide says configure the hardware.conf but as it is for ubuntu I opened it up and it was recommended to use the custom.conf.
I tried to do that but it doesn't have

#Enable lircd
START_LIRCD="false"

so I just made changes which I could which were uncommenting the some of the things mentioned in that config file.

I am stuck at bullet 2.3 as when I use irw it doesn't do anything. I tried pressing buttons but it doesn't show up. My xbmc was running at that time and was responding to the buttons but not in irw.

I have never used irw so dont know much about it.

The guide provides a comprehensive list of the config files Lircmap.xml and keymaps/remote.xml and I am wondering if I can copy paste them to the config files already existing but not sure which files are currently being used.

Also tried using this guide but got stuck as I couldn't get mode2 command to work

Code:

root@xbian:/# stop lirc
lirc stop/waiting
root@xbian:/# mode2
mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory

Any guidance as to how to implement the guides linked above successfully would be really helpful. Thank you for responding.