should be fairly simple you could build a temporary circuit to read the IR output of his TV controller and then use a small micro controller to mimic that with temporary push button switches 
(this post was edited on 5/30/14 to fix link to video 
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should be fairly simple you could build a temporary circuit to read the IR output of his TV controller and then use a small micro controller to mimic that with temporary push button switches
(this post was edited on 5/30/14 to fix link to video )