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Yes there are a few, jellyfin (fork of emby) and kodi are another couple. Initially I was looking for something to use instead of iTunes, I tried all of those, can’t remember why I didn’t like Plex, but anyway I settled on emby, Plex is probably the most widely used though. They can all be tried for free so you can make up your own mind. It wasn’t until I was mid-transfer that I thought about using it for TV, so I didn’t test the others with the TV functionality, I suspect they are all very similar. I would suggest that pretty much any of them will be superior to EyeTV4. It’s so weird, EyeTV3 was a wonderful app, really worked well, then Geniatech got hold of it and completely butchered it and produced the waste of space (and money) that is EyeTV4.

Just gone to the download page, they seem to have removed all versions other than 8528 (which they try and claim is updated for ventura and shiny and new - twaddle - same old junk). No sign of 8531 on the main page. It is listed under their support/downloads page. Just tried it and given a quick test, I can’t see any real change, the few bits I tried are still broken on my system. Did an update and the guide still jumps up & down as before. I opened a full screen live window on BBC1 then pressed 2 to switch to BBC2, it switched to BBC2 fine, but the info bar won’t close and it won’t respond to any other actions now, can’t change channels, can’t minimise it or switch it’s size, can’t close it, no menubar, nothing at all, my only option was to force-quit the app. Doesn’t give me any confidence that anything else has been addressed. As ever, looks like they have tweaked the number and nothing else.

Hi, EyeTV4 4 is the largest pile of poo I have ever used, it is utter rubbish. I haven’t tried 8531, I may have a look later but I would suspect that geniatech have fixed nothing whatsoever. In the many, many years since I have been asking for help they have not responded at all. Indeed you will notice no response from geniatech in here either. In the past they kept sending out an update saying it worked with the latest os, but in reality is was the same version number as the last one and the app was identical - as were all the faults. They just re-signed it or whatever so they could rake in more money. As to people being quiet ‘so has geniatech fixed all the problems’… …no, no they haven’t, I don’t even believe they have a support team, the reason we are quiet is because it is pointless trying anymore, I have raised numerous problems over many years and none of them, NONE OF THEM, have ever been addressed. I have probably found another few faults since I last posted but just can’t be bothered raising them it isn’t worth the effort. High Sierra was good, I regret upgrading, my iMac is now on Monterey and cannot upgrade further, HS was better, from memory Catalina was absolutely dreadful. I recently got Emby - it’s free, I am moving my iTunes library over to it and it is really nice. I purchased the lifetime premiere license (£100) it’s a one off charge, you can get a subscription if you prefer from £4/month but I hate those. You can do most things without a license but you need it to record TV… (Silicon dust do offer a subscription to allow you to record but there is no lifetime option so it would be a non-starter for me, you don’t need the Silicon dust subscription to record in emby they are totally separate so the emby license is all you need). I bought an HD Homerun Flex Quatro £150, it has four tuners and when combined with emby it provides a wonderful replacement for eyetv (interestingly if you try using it with eyetv it will only allow you to use two of it’s four tuners! *typical*). I do still have eyetv on my mac but haven’t recorded much with it since. Emby works, I can record/view four streams at once, I can record programs as with eyetv but I can also record a series, unlike eyetv - which would then record everything which usually means you get a dozen copies of the same program & episode, emby only records new episodes not in your library - wonderful. Another difference is that eyetv has zero support, emby has an active support forum and the developers respond pretty quickly. Plus I got a free program called shotcut, I can open the recorded .ts files in there, takes a couple of minutes to edit out commercials and then export to .mp4 (emby can also automatically convert recordings to .mp4 and apparently there is a plugin that does commercials but I haven’t investigated that). EyeTV4 export is pitiful, most often it just does nothing. All in all I would urge people to look elsewhere. Until now I hadn’t found anything I liked and just had to put up with the awful EyeTV4 but emby is for me the better option. EyeTV4 is expensive, has zero support and a huge number of bugs. It isn’t worth the effort. The only reason it sells is because EyeTV3 was brilliant, it was also developed/owned/supported by Elgato which is a reputable company. Geniatech is awful and doesn’t care a jot. Oh, and another benefit of emby over EyeTV4, I can watch live TV on my iPad, iMac, AppleTV, xBox, Oculus Quest and pretty much anything else if I had it. As you already have an HD Homerun then you are pretty much set, there would only be the subscription/lifetime license, I certainly couldn’t and wouldn’t recommend EyeTV4 to anyone. Hope that this is of some use, I will investigate the newer(?) version but I am not holding my breath, I seriously doubt it has any fixes at all, just a new number, I am currently using 8526. Mark.