Setting up a random Chinese RGB led strip with Raspberry Pi using lirc

So I have ordered one of these RGB led strips from aliexpress:

It has an IR remote, but I wanted to integrate it into my home automation project. And so far it is going good.

First I installed lirc (Linux Infrared Remote Control) with using this tutorial: http://alexba.in/blog/2013/01/06/setting-up-lirc-on-the-raspberrypi/ I also had to update my firmware using this method: http://alexba.in/blog/2013/01/04/raspberrypi-quickstart/

The irrecord recorded the codes of the remote nicely, and now I can control it from command line.

I also installed lirc_web from here: https://github.com/alexbain/lirc_web I had some problems making it start automatically during boot (I was using this tutorial: http://alexba.in/blog/2013/11/02/lirc-web-nginx-and-upstart/). I had to change the line " exec /usr/local/bin/node /home/pi/lirc_web/app.js 2>&1 >> /var/log/open-source-universal-remote.upstart.log" to "exec /usr/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/lirc_web/app.js 2>&1 >> /var/log/open-source-universal-remote.upstart.log". Both the node folder and the app.js is in a different place.

Openhab

It wasn't running for me first, because some of its file was owned by root, and also the service has to be started by the openhab user. So here are the commands to solve this issue:
cd /etc/openhab (or where you installed it)
sudo chown -R openhab:openhab .
sudo su openhab -c 'service openhab start'