I have a FLIRC USB receiver connected to my Media PC running Linux. This kinda does in hardware what LIRC does in software; you can map remote control buttons to keys and it looks just like a HID ...

A simple web application to turn my physical remote controls into virtual ones using a FLIRC 2.0 USB stick. The FLIRC 2.0 can receive IR signals from many remote controls and send them to a device via ...