Wow, that looks interesting. I've got regualar old IR LED strips and, if I got time, I wanted to set up a NodeMCU with a IR transmitter below the LEDs, so I can remote control my LED strips per HTTP requests.
It's just a proof of concept, but I guess that could work. To read the IR codes, it seems mostly be standartized, but otherwise I could also detect IR codes via a IR receiver.