[Howto] mceusb driver with lirc protocol instead of rc-6/devinput

[Yoda]

I have been struggling with this for several days as well.

Firstly I have very limited Linux knowledge so I not sure exactly what is going on.

I do not have a usb receiver but I have a TSOP34838 receiver wired to the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi. To get that to work I first had to add lirc_rpi gpio_in_pin=18 to “/etc/modules”

Then I followed the opening post. This made my remote work. However it stopped working after a reboot.
Then I edited “/etc/default/xbmc” and added WAITFOR="lircd"
Now after a reboot it survives. (I have rebooted several times today)
As mentioned I have limited Linux experience so I cannot tell you exactly what I did. I think xbmc now waits until lirc is started before it continues to start???

Also when I do not use the: echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols line, it still works fine for me.