After a fair few hours of fiddling and trial and error I finally succeeded in transmitting IR from the transceiver today. I was able to turn a sky box on and off. A small, but significant step.
The downside of this is that I can only get it to work with previously created configuration files. When I try to record the IR signals myself and play them back, they don't work. Something isn't working quite right, but I'm not sure what. From my research, it seems that getting LIRC to control appliances is quite a tricky thing to do, so I don't feel too disheartened.
On top of this partial success, I'm also getting to grips with the LIRC codebase. I'm not especially impressed with the quality of much of the code, however, but it should hopefully help with trying to work out what's happening with the IR signals.
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