Infrared Blaster support



I have some ‘dumb’ AV equipment that I need to power-up when the system starts and then hit a sequence of buttons every time I want to use my media centre. Can’t use CEC.

Really I want to just plug in some IR blaster to the mediacentre and have it fire them out automatically on boot / shutdown. I searched around the forum for infrared but I couldn’t find anything relevent.

Is this really such a niche issue – or am I searching for the wrong thing? Or maybe trying to go about this the wrong way.