I'm well down the track towards setting up a rpi as an IR transmitter (to control a projector in this case) using lirc and mqtt But hadn't delved past the somewhat misleading name of this plugin sufficiently to realise it is really a generic indigo-rpi interface[?]...so curious if i actually should have been heading down this track.
I've hit a minor snag with lirc, to quote:
In 2019 lirc_rpi, the Linux kernel module provided with Raspbian before, was replaced with gpio-ir and gpio-ir-tx.
Whilst its still possible to install lirc manually, it will no longer work out of the box and there's a need to install various patches before recompiling (a process i've found not to work successfully-so far....hence double checking other options! So far as i can establish thus far, manually installed lirc might work for sending codes from the standard libraries without patching, but certainly won't work for learning codes (for which ir-keytable is the default environment rather than lirc .)
so...about to start on a clean OS to learn my codes through ir-keytable before the lirc install obliterates it..but ...before i start experimenting with the plugin and associated RPI firmware, I thought i would sanity check any thoughts on the current lirc situation....should it still work?