IR blaster functionality

[agent_kith]

a fresh day brings some progress. I tried using lircd w/the default device but no change. Randomly I then tried irsend with SEND_START instead of SEND_ONCE and BINGO!! Seems that a single code pulse was not enough to do anything. Optimum command seems to be send once with a count of 3.... So happy that is sorted. Such a time sink.

Nicely done!

May be a good idea to document all the steps you took to get this working in the Walkthroughs forum here. You'll be helping the community out, and also can return here and look at your notes if you need to do this again.