I have just uploaded version 0.91 of lircd-xpc to the site. This should make the daemon a bit more resilient against a state where one endpoint thread crashes, and the other lives on, resulting in an unresponsive daemon. If you’ve encountered this, you might want to update. This requires the latest libhid (and Python wrappers) including a patch that I’ve just sent to the list. That patch should make it into libhid svn pretty soon. Until then, you may grab my custom libhid Debian packages from the download directory.