it's really clever idea, i like it indeed and would be awesome that someone work on it.

when you finaly find the device you need the program should create a remote in qtirreco, downloading the lirc config to

/home/user/MyDocs/qtirreco/Devices/<device>

and then create a properly .conf in
/home/user/MyDocs/qtirreco/Remotes/<remotename.conf>

this .conf could be a generic (vol+,vol-,ch+,ch-,on/off and maybe 0-9 too) as you can edit it later in qtirreco