I have to apologize for my bad English first. Second for my bad knowledge of Linux 
Sam, if I understand you good you are referring to IR blasting as I mentioned it in my post above?
If so, I have no problems with it. It is working fine. To transmit Ir commands i use Openhab with Exec binding.
What i am trying to do is, sent Ir command that are received with raspberry, over network to my Openhab Lirc binding.
From there i could control my WiFi switch.
I just need some direction where to put --listen argument…
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