LIRC and Status LED

[crashmaxx]

So I made a homebrew serial IR receiver and got it working with LIRC. It is pretty cool and will be great once I program in a few more buttons and may one to start mythfrontend.

Anyway, I wanted to add a couple LEDs to the IR receiver box and have it display the status of my tuners. It looks easy to do using the script from here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php...cording_Status

But during the install of LIRC I realized it takes over the serial port and disables the normal function. So I would need to turn on the LED with LIRC somehow. The best idea I've had so far is to turn on the transmitter functionality and just wire in a normal LED instead of a IR one. But I don't know how to tell LIRC to just transmit a solid on signal and how to do this with a command.

Anyone have dome experience with LIRC, especially with transmitting, have any ideas how to archive this?