IR blaster functionality

[agent_kith]

 my blaster is a DIY that I made years ago for my squeezebox. Its just a 3.5mm audio plug connected to a IR xmitter. I *thought* that there was a resistor (or something) in there as well but didnt fully disassemble it to be 100%. It was quite a while ago and my memory of it is hazy. It worked fine with the SB.

That's not going to work I think, go to https://www.lirc.org/, and under supported hardware, look for anything that says transmitter. say the serial transmitter (If your computer has a serial port).

If you are lucky, you might be able to find one of the HP USB receiver/transmitter dongle, and then you can plug in your IR transmitter into it. But I havn't try this myself