Lirc Event Driver
Freevo support the kernel's event driver directly by EVENT_DEVS and using Lirc. This page is describes the set up of the Hauppauge PVR-350 remote using Lirc in detail but it also applied to any remote uses the kernels event driver for input events. I prefer to use Lirc because of the additional tools that it contains. Two very useful commands are irw and ircat.
irw simply shows the events and the remote that the driver sees and ircat shows the events that Freevo sees. Here is an example of running these commands and pressing the play, stop and record buttons: