Emprex 3009 URFIII

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Hi,
I have an Emprex 3009 URFIII - many of the buttons don't quite a lot don't. I don't care about most of them, but Volume Down and Mute I would quite like to fix.

I've spotted this: http://forum.xbian.org/thread-664.html but there's no solution in there as best I can tell.

If I try and follow the instructions here: http://wiki.xbian.org/doku.php/remotes
I get the same error:

Code:

xbian@machine ~ $ sudo su
[sudo] password for xbian:
root@machine:/home/xbian# /etc/init.d/lirc stop
lirc stop/waiting
root@machine:/home/xbian# mode2
mode2: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
mode2: default_init(): No such file or directory

Some googling shows there are quite a few posts in the forums for the other pi media centres.
This one appears to have a solution, but I'm not sure how portable it is to XBIAN: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=60944&page=8

And this thread has a few suggestions including this post: http://forum.osmc.tv/showthread.php?tid=471&pid=28486#pid28486

and
http://forum.osmc.tv/showthread.php?tid=4137&page=2

Any suggestions? I don't suppose there are any things in any of those posts that would help create a permanent fix for XBIAN?

Thanks