I would be happy to test. I have a GS4 running kit kat which at very least 'works' (blinks the ir led; seen via camera; apps are too crappy to test further) with the crappy IR apps in the play store. Would be great to have a working IR app that doesn't pop up an ad every 2 seconds and limit the usage to barely anything even though it's ad supported.

Though I'm having a fairly rare free time spurt which doesn't happen often so I might not be the most responsive tester in the world, but I'll do what I can.

Good call on LIRC btw. I have it sending the proper ir commands by script and getting php to call my scripts should be trivial. Problem is that I can only call irsend with root permissions and I'm struggling to find out where in the program chain the permissions issue is. Don't really want to give my lighttpd user root permissions....

Thanks for the helpful suggestion there.