Thanks guys, glad it was of some use.
I must admit I hardly ever use EyeTV now, I moved everything from iTunes into Emby, bought the one off lifetime premiere licence and an HD homerun quatro (4 tuners) and use that. It works so much better. I love the fact that I can say ‘record series, all episodes, not in my library’, then if I have say season two of a program and season one gets repeated it will record it as it isn’t in my library. (Or if you only want new series you can do that too). But the main reason is that it works and is supported.
There are other media servers, plex for instance, I tried lots and decided emby was the best for what I wanted.
The original EyeTV releases by Elgato were great, geniatech are just a total waste of space. It’s been many, many years since I first raised issues with them, still waiting for any useful response!