title: Setup IR Remote Control Using LIRC for the Raspberry PI (RPi)
body: <p>After much searching I was surprised and dismayed about the conflicting information on how to setup IR remote control for my RPi project. I thought it would be easy but setting up Linux InfraRed Control (LIRC) has been problematic for a long time</p>
  
  <p>But much changed in June 2019 with the release of the Buster version of Raspbian making much of the tutorials out there worthless. Many tutorials have you create a hardware.conf file but LIRC does not need nor want it and the lirc-rpi module has been replaced with the gpio-ir module.</p>
  
  <p>So how do you set up LIRC on the RPi using Raspbian (Buster)?</p>