One code goes in, another comes out... A different way of having a single remote without needing a universal one.
Here we are using Tsop 1738, IR transmitter and Wemos D1. You can use another microcontroller but make sure that it has a built-in ESP8266.
I have created a graphical user interface for LIRC that allow you to control you Raspberry Pi universal remote with LabVIEW.
I wanted to pack an entire infrared database, thousands of remote files spread across hundreds of folders, into a single handheld device.