I am here too!

The IrToy is a good piece of hardware, The 1.4 seconds delay is an annoyance, no more, no less. Your brain tends to go "I just pressed a button, why did not anything happen?.... Oh, now it shows up". Confusing, but you will get used to it. Use the IrToy firmware 2.2 (or the inofficial "2.4").

On my "wishlist" is to port my firmware to the IrToy [Link: github.com] ...