2021-02-14, 01:51
The solution that worked for me was to follow the instructions on https://github.com/graysky2/streamzap.
I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why I couldn't get LIRC to work and it turns out that Xorg was stealing the Streamzap and installing it as a keyboard.
I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why I couldn't get LIRC to work and it turns out that Xorg was stealing the Streamzap and installing it as a keyboard.