LIRC receiving is working, irsend the ir transmitter blinks, but tv does not see it

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 with lirc 0.10.0-2 version

hardware: HP Windows Media Center Remote and USB Receiver OVU400103/00 &
5069-8344

This receiver has 2 jacks on the back for 2 IR transmitters.

after installing ubuntu all I did was this:

sudo apt-get install lirc ir-keytable
sudo systemctl stop lircd-uinput.service
sudo systemctl disable lircd-uinput.service
sudo reboot

then upon reboot I was able to use sudo irw and see the commands from my
mce remote
However I did not see any output from my Samsung TV remote.

I found this documentation helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LIRC

with this command I was able to see output from all remotes:

sudo mode2 --driver default --device /dev/lirc0

so I modified /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf to use driver = default & device
= /dev/lirc0

I then created a profile for both remotes:

irdb-get find mce
irdb-get download mceusb/mceusb.lircd.conf
sudo irrecord --device /dev/lirc0 --driver default

and copied the created configs to the appropriate place:

sudo cp mceusb.lircd.conf /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/
sudo cp BN59-01199F.lircd.conf /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/

sudo reboot

NOW! when I use sudo irw I am able to see all remotes

000000037ff07be0 00 KEY_DOWN mceusb
00000000e0e0e01f 00 KEY_VOLUMEUP BN59-01199F

So at this point irw is seeing the remotes so I am wanting to be able to
send ir codes to the TV

so I tested:

irsend SEND_ONCE BN59-01199F KEY_VOLUMEUP

when I issue this command I can see the ir transmitter blink. but the IR
receiver on my samsung TV does not blink, and normally it does when I use
the actual oem remote, this leads me to believe that the code is either
wrong or incomplete.

I also tried:

irsend SEND_START BN59-01199F KEY_VOLUMEUP

This makes the transmitter blink VERY fast until I issue the stop command:

irsend SEND_STOP BN59-01199F KEY_VOLUMEUP

I have not been able to find any documentation on how to further proceed as
far as debugging what the issue is. I am very motivated to get this working
and have no issue reading guides or documentation, I simply cannot seem to
find any.

Appreciate any and all help.