Okay, not sure what I was doing wrong but repetition helped. I loaded each of the lircd.conf files linked above in/etc/lirc used the IRW console command to see if any of them were working. This one: github.com/osmc/osmc/blob/maste … lircd.conf actually worked! I then moved that one into my created folder and loaded it up.
I had to remap the lircrc file to get volumio to work but I now have IR control of volumio!
Bummer is that I got all this way to discover that track and playback control is limited to the queue. 
Does anyone know how to get these commands to perform the logical command globally? My primary use case being Spotify Connect.
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