[Oliver.O]

After each new boot (or re-boot), an IR remote (mceusb with the IR receiver connected via GPIO) did not work as expected. Mostly, none of the keys triggered an action in XBMC. Sometimes, the navigation keys (up, down left, right) worked, but nothing else. (Monitoring key presses via irw was always OK with all keys generating messages.)

In my case, this seemed to be related to the way XBMC is started. Obviously XBMC starts before lircd is ready and then fails to establish a connection to lircd.

I was able to fix the problem by applying this patch:

Code:

*** /etc/init/xbmc.conf.orig    2014-04-29 19:26:05.723005716 +0200
--- /etc/init/xbmc.conf    2014-04-29 19:26:55.326163747 +0200
***************
*** 13,19 ****
  env ZTEMPXBMC=0
  env DEBUG='--debug'
  
! start on started xbmc-preload and started dbus and (started autofs or xbian-nowait)
  stop on runlevel [06]
  
  # only effective during starting until full load. for niceness, set /etc/default/xbmc
--- 13,19 ----
  env ZTEMPXBMC=0
  env DEBUG='--debug'
  
! start on started xbmc-preload and started dbus and started lirc and (started autofs or xbian-nowait)
  stop on runlevel [06]
  
  # only effective during starting until full load. for niceness, set /etc/default/xbmc

Please note that this is only an initial attempt at resolving the problem. I have not checked for side effects, e.g. different configurations without lircd. And the test I have introduced may not be sufficient: Checking if lircd is actually ready to accept connections before starting XBMC would probably be a more robust option.