IR blaster functionality

[agent_kith]

audio driver for xmitting - https://www.lirc.org/html/audio.html

Can you try run this and see what happens?

Code:

sudo lircd -d ALSA:default@48000

What phone are you using? My android phones don't have a IR filter, so am unaware of any phone with this built in.. Must be a high end phone?

Thanks for the tip re irw. I *thought* that I saw reference to it in posts that I found for blasting. The description says that 'irw will connect to any Unix domain socket and print the received data to stdout.' and I understood that you still needed to connect to a socket to blast ?? anyway, like I said earlier, I have limited linux.

Do you mean this?

It takes some time to set up (50 ms or so) so when no clients are connected to lircd the first transmission will have some higher latency.

A workaround for this is to keep irw running with a bash script like this:
#!/bin/sh
while [ true ]; do
irw || true
sleep 1
done

If I'm reading this correctly it just means always keep the lirc connection alive.. So when you're ready to transmit, lircd is always read to transmit... Otherwise, the first transmission will take 50ms, but the later commands will be quicker...

I did a quick research, home assistant does have logitech squeezebox support.. But it tracks volume numerically (from 0.0 to 1.0), so it doesn't track VOL_UP or VOL_DOWN events.. If only, using HA will simplify everything for you (and it can do way more).