IR blaster functionality

[davem]

More trial and error and numerous reloads of lircd and the errors have disappeared. but nothing in irw (not really sure yet if I should see anything in irw...)

Which reference do you follow to use the input audio as a emitter? I'm only aware of using it as a receiver (See here: https://www.lirc.org/audio-alsa.html)...

irw is checking the data received by an IR receiver, so you can't use that

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

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.