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Use Sentinel and self-sign EyeTV, then it works again (here at Mac mini m4)

Having purchased EyeTV 4 (8521) for macOS Catalina, there have been issues, some documented in the support forum here. I have allowed time since purchase for updates to be issued, which they have and all in all EyeTV 4 is an unmitigated disaster. Exporting is useless. Video stuttering Exiting Full Screen takes at least 2 attempts before it exits. Spinning beachballs galore. It is an unqualified mess. EyeTV 3 and earlier, allowed you to export in whatever format you wanted and guess what? IT WORKED EyeTV 4 exports a file which is unreadable by any player I have tried. EyeTV 4 is a pile of useless junk and a complete waste of money. It's as if Geniatech had absolutely no Mac software experience, but they did with EyeTV 3 DO NOT BUY.

So to get recording to work using TitanTV, does one do this by choosing what you want to record on their website and using the remote scheduling feature in preferences? I guess I'll give this a try for now. I was planning on moving to another solution after my TV Guide subscription expired in June (mainly because of the out of stock notice on the product page and what seems to be an intentional kill off of Eye TV for the Mac). Now that recordings cannot be setup using the TV Guide service, it looks like I'll need to switch now. It really is a shame because under Elgato's ownership, EyeTV had great brand recognition and a really easy to use PVR / TV solution. I'd been a happy customer for well over 10 years.

Dear EyeTV community In December 2021 and January 2022 due to ongoing crashes and quality issues in general I exchanged dozens of mails with Geniatech Europe and Geniatech Shenzen. On their request I sent them many screen shots and software error logs. And I made them aware of mistakes in their advertising in regards too EyeTV 4 for Macs (i.e. referring to Apple software that does not exist anymore, listing features that are not working in EyeTV 4 anymore and using outdated Apple terms). The result was rather frustrating. A lot of mails but nearly no improvement in regards to the software. Is it because of a low number of users? Certainly not as the the German director of Geniatech Europe (Mike Decker) wrote me that they have an user community with a two times seven digit number (means millions of users). Fact is: Geniatech completely missed the long in advance announced transfer of the Apple world to a 64-bit OS, that already started in 2010. And in 2018, when Apple stopped to support the 32-bit apps, It took them 15 months to produce a kind of beta software that had a very limited feature set. Furthermore they used Covid-19 as an argument for not being able to deliver within an acceptable time frame. Even now, 4 years later, EyeTV macOS is far away of being a finalised product with all the promised features – features we were used to by using the old EyeTV 3, coded by Elgato. And again they missed to make use of the developer version for the new macOS Ventura 13 that was available for months before the public launch. The result: After the update to macOS Ventura EyeTV 4 became unusable. Once more, we, the user community, feel frustrated and cheated by Geniatech. In the US of A and most probably also in the EU such a behavior would qualify for a legal battle, as Geniatech never delivered the advertised feature set and still selling this software in an unfinished and now even crashing version. Beside the legal aspects simply it is a question of business ethics. It looks like thet totally unacceptable behavior of this company needs to be counteracted by the power of their customers. As nobody at Geniatech cares in regards to the content of this forum, all of us should send a huge amount of complaining mails to the people concerned. During my contacts with Geniatech Shenzen and Germany I collected the contact addresses listed below. Feel free to flood these mail addresses with your complaints. kelly.li@geniatech.com (Geniatech EyeTV Support Team) abbey@geniatech.com (Sales Director Geniatech headquarter Shenzen) cpf@geniatech.com dgg@geniatech.com sales@geniatech.com suggestion@geniatech.com GTESales@geniatech.com (Geniatech Europe GmbH, EMEA HQ in Germany, Director is Mike Decker)

Really. Do you care about customers at all? Initially the excuse was "engineers need time"... so.. it's been 90 days and they STILL haven't addressed the issue. Really? Come on. Get your act together.

Please make EyeTV open source and available on GitHub.

DC Rackerby: Thanks for the tutorial on xmldv. I set it up and got it working right now. I live in the metro St. Louis area. A few pointers to those who are trying to do this as well. Step 1: set go to schedulesdirect.org and and click on the "Sign Up" tab to create an account. It sets you up with a free 7 day trial account. I haven't upgraded to the $6 2-month or $25 yearly account yet. Step 2: You'll get an e-mail with an activation code. Copy and paste it into the schedules direct web page. Step 3: on the "SD-DD Subscribed Lineups: Add a new lineup Report Lineup Problems " line click "Add a new lineup" and select the appropriate channel service you need. I have an HD Antenna which picks up 54 stations in the St. Louis area. Step 4: go to the http://mc2xml.awardspace.info to download mc2xml. Scroll down about a page and click on the download. since we are on Mac's choose the third column for OS X (x86) Step 5: create a folder "scripts" in your home folder (i.e. /Users/username - for me it is /Users/weber). You can go to the menu bar at the top of the screen and click on "Go" and navigate down to "Home" then right click on the Home folder and add a "New Folder" and name it scripts. Step 6: move mc2xml from your downloads folder to the scripts folder Step 7: open "Terminal" from your "Utilities" folder which is inside your "Applications" folder. type "cd ./scripts" to navigate to the scripts folder. Then type "chmod 755 mc2xml" so that mc2xml is recognized as an executable. Step 8: still in the Terminal window, type in ."/mc2xml -T sdusername:sdpassword" where username and password are what you choose for schedules direct in step 1. It will take a minute or so to process and will create a mc2xml.dat and xmldv.xml file and place them in your "scripts" folder. Step 9: still in the terminal window, type in "open -a EyeTV /Users/username/scripts/xmltv.xml". be sure to change username to your actual username. for me it is weber as you can see in top 5. Step 10: Go to EyeTV (which should be open). Click on "Channels" the third tab under Library on the left. Then for each channel click on the EPG tab and change it to xmldv. It will ask you to assign a channel and give you the list to choose from. This corresponds with the "lineup" you hopefully correctly choose in Step 3. Note, I tried setting each channel to xmldv before Step 9 and I got a blank list. So step 9 has to come first. Step 11: Once done for each channel you can go to the EyeTV "Program Guide" and see that it is filled in including titles for each episode and colors to indicate type of program - as we were used to with EPG TV Guide. Step 12: Open "TextEdit" and copy in the getup.sh procedure (listed again below). Remember to change your mac username on lines 2, 3 and 5and the schedules direct username and password on line 10. Then save it as getup.sh and place it in the "scripts" folder you created in step 5 #!/bin/bash MC2XML="/Users/username/scripts/mc2xml" XMLTV="/Users/username/scripts/xmltv.xml" #Set the working directory cd /Users/username/scripts/ # Check if we have internet connection ping -q -c 1 -t 5 google.com > /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then # Get new schedule $MC2XML -T sdusername:sdpassword # Reload EyeTV with the file open -a EyeTV $XMLTV fi Step 13: Back in the "Terminal" window. type chmod 755 getepg.sh" to make getup.sh recognizable as an executable. Now in the terminal window you can tap "./Users/username/getepg.sh" and it will do the whole job for you. I haven't yet automated the procedure using Launch Agent, but will do that shortly. I also have to go thru this procedure on another mac since I have 2 eyetv hybrids. Thanks again to DC Rockery. I needed to put together this dummies guide because it took me a while to figure out how to make it all work. I figured someone else may need this as well

No EPG service for 60 days.... Now you are banning users and removing all topics which relate to the MISSING EPG SERVICE, which disappeared August 7th, 2022 and has yet to return. This is how you've chosen to handle customers? Seriously???

Anyone else having problems with TV guide? My guide currently goes out to Tuesday at 7:00PM but nothing after that. My subscription goes until Mar. 19. I did a update now and it said downloading and adding channels but still no additional programs.

Hi all! Be aware: For a few days the version 8528 already popped up in the Geniatech download section a few months ago. It was the result of other EyeTV issues I discussed with Geniatech and it had nothing to do with the upcoming macOS Ventura. Unfortunately, this 8528 incorporated new troubles, for instance it didn' stream audio to the EyeTV iOS app anymore. After my feedback it has been removed from the download section. I assume that this hidden 8528 release on the Geniatech download server is still the old one, not containing any fix in regards to the Ventura issues. Just be careful. As long as there is no official communication by Geniatech, I recommend not to download from unknown sources. Once more it becomes obvious that Geniatech is unable or not willing to take care of EyeTV 4 for the Mac OS. As I already wrote in a former post: Mail your complaints to all this staff listed below. We, the customers of EyeTV 4 macOS, deserve a much better service. And it is time to let them know that we strongly disagree with the chaotic way they handle all the issues. They have to become aware: If they do not act, their behavior will result in a reputation risk for the company. kelly.li@geniatech.com (Geniatech EyeTV Support Team) abbey@geniatech.com (Sales Director Geniatech headquarter Shenzen) cpf@geniatech.com dgg@geniatech.com sales@geniatech.com suggestion@geniatech.com GTESales@geniatech.com (Geniatech Europe GmbH, EMEA HQ in Germany, Director is Mike Decker)

I managed to get XMLTV working in a couple of hours after some trial and error Hopefully just enough detail to get people going. I'm sure I reused previous knowledge from posts I found here and on Google This is all done in the terminal. If you are not comfortable with this I would avoid this option Pre-req is to install xcode and add-on's when prompted Google and Install macports (there is a package but I installed from the source tar. I recommend you do too as it will compile the version for your macOS). I'm doing this on an old mac running Sierra. Old OS and old shell https://www.macports.org/install.php Follow the instructions on the website including adding /opt/local/bin to your path or terminal will not find "port" once installed Once macports is installed: Install xmltv using sudo port install xmltv It may take a while as it takes care of all the required dependencies. This creates a series of tools in /opt/local/bin. I'm using the UK grabber but there are others. Then I ran /opt/local/bin/tv_grab_uk_tvguide --configure This creates the .xmltv directory in your user home and defines the cache location. You do want to go through the pain of selecting the channels in this config as selecting all will take the grabber forever to run. For the UK I had to say no or yes over a 1000 time. Yes it was pain but worthwhile One configured I created myself a script file in vi ~/.xmltv xmltv_refresh.sh Use your editor of choice. In this file I entered the following: !/bin/bash # Run the grabber, limit detail for speed 14 days, pass to sorter and output to an xml file /opt/local/bin/tv_grab_uk_tvguide --nodetailspage --days 14 | /opt/local/bin/tv_sort --by-channel --output ~/.xmltv/uk-tv-listings.xml # load xml EPG in EyeTV by passing the file /usr/bin/open -a /Applications/EyeTV.app ~/.xmltv/uk-tv-listings.xml Make the above file executable by running chmod u+x ~.xmltv/xmltv_refresh.sh Test the grabber by running the above script you saved: ~/.xmltv/xmltv_refresh.sh You can test this is eyeTV by selecting xmltv as the guide against a channel. You will instantly see the channel listings if it has worked Once happy you can add an entry to your crontab like: # 00 05 * * * $HOME/.xmltv/xmltv_refresh.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 00 17 * * * $HOME/.xmltv/xmltv_refresh.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 This will run the script twice a day ay 05:00 and 17:00. Choose times to suit Good luck. Hope this helps some people while we wait .. Stuart

I've found that communication with the Chinese owners to be a bit lacking. And, by a bit, I mean they are absolutely useless. During their major outage a couple of years ago, it took months of only getting the same response from "Angela Xu" who appears to no longer be there. For at least 6 weeks the response is our engineers are doing some final testing... I have a solution, fire them and hire a team that knows what they are doing. Maybe this is how the Chinese government deals with Spkr Pelosi's trip to Taiwan. If they don't deal with this soon, the will lose even more users. Elgato really screwed all of us when they sold EyeTV to Geniatech. Hey Geniatech get your damn act together and tell us what is happening. Better still, fix it. Did you fail to pay TV Guide and they shut you down again*? * just a guess. The support ticket system is a joke. If they can not determine if there is a MAJOR system failure, a ticket submission is not going to help. I am so sick of this companies lack of incentive to keep their system working. In the 10+ years with Elgato this type of outage just did not happen. Once in a great while they had an issue that was solved in hours. Now this is the forth time Geniatech has screwed us.

Running 3.6.9 (7523) on High Sierra with an EyeTV Diversity OTA, with no issues. When I play a show recorded with EyeTV in EyeTV, I can turn DVB subtitles on and off, so the application clearly has the ability to handle such subtitles. However, if I export the show to a native format (h.264), only audio and video are exported. Ideally, I would wish for EyeTV to be able to export subtitles, either in a .mp4 or .mkv container.

It looks like the topic, "TV GUIDE NOT UPDATING" got de-railed, and is now more about coding, hacks, and work arounds for the EPG? As to this topic: Has anyone had any luck with the actual EPG, or real answers from breakthroughs with TV Guide EPG, or with Geniatech? I've gotten the same run around and even legally threatened by Angela in Support. She basically said if anyone slanders Geniatech - they'd deal with it legally. I don't give her an ounce of credibility. The beginning of each of the last two weeks I've been given the same rubbish - their techs are working around the clock, and to wait another week. I've done that twice now. Regardless of when -- or if they get this issue fixed, I'm demanding a full refund no matter what. I don't know what options others have - depending where you're at - but I'm in the states, and I'm also filing a case (at least ) with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for failure to deliver a contracted service. My suspicion: they've completely lost any kind of TV Guide licensing and their scrambling to put together some half-a$$, make shift EPG data stream service of their own! [edit] Oh... and to date, 4:52pm, U.S. west coast time - our EPG is STILL dead.

Re: ^. Sorry, wish Forum software let you edit previous posts, but it doesn't. Here's the attachment with a minor correction in a note on Step 2. XMLTVListings EPG with EyeTV-Guide.pdf

ATSC EPG alternative Here's an EPG stopgap that works, tested this evening. I have an over-the-air antenna (live in a rural area in Wisconsin without cable, don't want a dish). Not sure if it will work with cable. This is for a Mac running OS 10.11, should work through 10.14. 1. Go to the Channels listing in EyeTV. You will find a listing of your channel lineup you set up in EyeTV. 2. In the EPG column, there is a dropdown menu for each channel; it is currently set to TV Guide. Change it to ATSC for each channel (has to be done one at a time). 3. Go to the Program Guide window, which is still blank, and from the dropdown menu at the top, select Update ATSC (you should have several options, don't select Update TV Guide obviously). 4. I have about two dozen channels in my EyeTV channel listing (which remains active), the program download took under 2 minutes. When done, the Program Guide will be populated for about the next 24 hours (although our 4 public TV channels populated for 4 days out). The listings are barebones, but you can click to record as with TV Guide, and the individual programs do have a content description if you click on the program title. All the usual Record functions work. 5. I'll find out tomorrow if the autoupdate daily function works (set in Program Guide in Preferences), or if you have to do it manually each day. Obviously not convenient like TV Guide, and only goes a day in the future, but it did work fine for me this evening and . . . this is how we did used to do it a decade ago with early DVRs (EPG's have spoiled us). xmltv is probably a better option, I'll tackle that over the next few days.

Here are the basic TitanTV steps (using titantv.com). 1. First, set yourself up as a user (free) and log in. 2. Click on the Site Preferences menu item at the top. 3. Click on My Channel Lineups tab. 4. If it hasn't filled in your provider, create a new lineup. 5. Click on the My DVR Options tab. 6. Enable the Remote Scheduling checkbox and Save Changes 7. Click on TitanTV Listings at the upper left to get back to the schedule for your system. 8. Click on a desired program. 9. In the popup window, click on the button with a red dot/black box (2nd from left). 10. Confirm you want to add it to your remote queue (that you have to do this for every program is a major PITA). This stores the temporary setting on the TitanTV site (somewhere) 11. Go to eyeTV Preferences/Guide tab. In the TitanTV Remote Scheduling region, click the Change button to add your TitanTV account name (not email address) and password. This will let eyeTV access those stored recording requests stored on TitanTV. 12. Click the Check Now button. (I also set the interval to every hour). 13. This should start populating your Schedules list in eyeTV with your TitanTV selections. You may encounter some channel issues (e.g., I don't have a digital TV subscription, I had to edit the channel listings on TitanTV to remove the "HD" from the names). Also, you won't know about time conflicts until this stage: TitanTV lets you set anything you want without signaling conflicts). 14. If you see a program in the eyeTV Schedules list, and nothing is set to italic, eyeTV should record the program (at least it has for me). Okay, folks, this was a quick-and-dirty rundown based on my hunting around and experimentation. I am far from an expert on TitanTV, so don't ask me about the service. BTW, the iOS version of the TitanTV app does not let you set remote schedules. Booo! Enjoy (as best you can) this clumsy operation.

What a loss for Geniatech. They could of added a yearly subscription service to allow 3rd party hardware to work with EyeTV. Geniatech seems like its not on top of things with EyeTV. Since it purchased EyeTV, tech support is sub par, updates are sparse and bugs multiply. I contacted support by email yesterday about the issue with the PAID subscription programming guide, no reply or fix today. None of this shocks me. We all need to accept that the party is almost over soon.

i dont have your mail adress and cant send you via wetransfer.. here it is from my drive https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zBLFocXn0-vkZKKrKfDfdyXcqdGtagF9 and also attached it here. eyetv_netstream_115_423_update.zip

EyeTV App for tvOS will come in september, sorry for all inconvenience.

No HD live TV after upgrade to macOS 15.4 I upgraded macOS on my mac mini M2 from 15.3.2 to 15.4. After the upgrade EyeTV 4.0.0 (8532) was not able to stream the German HD programs. SD steaming is working. I'm using an EyeTV T2 Hybrid. Please build a new working version for macOS 15.4. Great thanks for your help.

Google search "sentinel, mac" Choose MacUpdate and download "Sentinel" Open it and add (drag) your EyeTv App into sentinel. Magic happens. Niels Riis, Denmark

M2 Pro mini, 14.1.1, 4.0.0 (8532), EyeTV HD, USA, woks fine for me. Whatever the previous version did as well, no problems. I am still pissed though about the guide DOA all these years. 😠

If they have no intention of supporting EyeTV4 I wish they would just open it up to other EPG services (which sort of worked with EyeTV3 according to some reports) or just release the EyeTV code to open source. Enough is enough already. What was once the best PVR product out there has become terrible. Covid or no-covid Geniatech could do better than this.

I am using macOS 14 Sonoma and EyeTV 4.0.0 (8528) works exactly the same way it works in macOS 13 Ventura for me, I have it running on an Intel iMac from 2019.

In my humble opinion there should've been a class action lawsuit over the failure to deliver (or reinstate) the EPG services that were bought and paid for. The only thing I don't know is how many Geniatech customers were burned. Considering their global reach it must be thousands. At least. I realize we have mostly all given up at this point... but that's exactly what they want us to do. It just irks me that they got away with it on a corporate level. A gigantic "eff-you" to people who sent them money... their clients. Elgato, we miss you.

EyeTV Version 3 permits use of any standard EPG (electronic program guide) formatted source; it does NOT have to be through a Geniatech provided source. I can tell you for a fact that it works with XML TV Listings (https://www.xmltvlistings.com/) out of Ottawa, Ontario, which covers North America. At $19.95 a year, with automatic renewal built in, it's a bargain (I have no connection with the company, just a satisfied customer). I've been using this without incident since the US TV Guide source was abruptly terminated in January 2019. I collected other people's info and my own experience to write up detailed instructions for setting up Eye TV to use this service; it is tricky but I've never had to fix anything once it was up and running in 2019 and I watch and record a lot of TV programs. These instructions are still posted somewhere on this site, and XML TV Listings asked me for permission to post, so it's on their site also. Since EyeTV 3 is 32-bit software, I have kept my Mac Mini used as a media center permanently at OS 10.14.6. Given the poor customer reports on EyeTV 4, and the fact that EyeTV 3 is an outstanding and mature piece of software running virtually perfectly, I could see no reason to go through the pain and agony of upgrading (I have several other computers running OS 12, but my understanding is EyeTV 3 will not run on anything later than OS 10.14). It should be possible for you to get an inexpensive older Mac Mini, erase it and reinstall OS 10.14, and run EyeTV 3 on it. An Apple dealer I patronize gave me instructions on how to erase a Mac and install an older OS; they are still available on an Apple web site that is not publicized. You notice I haven't said anything about Geniatech here; I've written them off, sad because EyeTV is great software that they apparently lack the technical knowledge to upgrade. Hope that answers your questions.

It's very doubtful the issue is actually a server hardware issue. That's all merely the same excuse they gave in August. Last time this happened, it took an app upgrade to fix it. There's no reason an app upgrade would be needed if the issue is a hardware related server issue. More likely the API key for the EPG data quit working -- if I had to guess, perhaps they failed to pay the fee for using the EPG data API key and they are just waiting to be able to afford it again or debating if it's worth paying for. They'd need to release a new app version to correct or change the internal API key the app uses... This is what makes the most sense to me, although I doubt they'd confirm or deny this. At this point (nearly 120 days without service) they clearly just do not care about customers. Even if it is a server hardware fault.... it doesn't take 120 days to replace a server.

Please restore the EPG service which has been PAID FOR. It's been 60 days without any EPG data. This is a terrible reflection on your company.

IT HAS WORKED FOR ME (8528) ON MY MACBOOK PRO (2017) AND IS RUNNING PERFECTLY WITH MY RECENTLY UPDATED VERSION OF VENTURA. MY EYETV IS DIVERSITY.

Just a "Plus 1" to thank Delacroix for the link; even though I had what was nominally 8528 (although it said it was 8527), it quit as soon as I tried to launch it. The version downloaded from Mega works perfectly. Maybe Geniatech will get around to putting it on their website eventually...

Hi Il Gatto, well I just tried to install the updated 8528 onto my Mac mini M1 server. Before updating to Ventura the version 8527 was more or less running stable (except of all the missing features we are waiting for since ages). Of course, I used the EyeTV reporter for a proper removing before installing the 8528. Initially, the channel search worked but after finishing the channel scan the app crashed. Tried several restarts without any success. It reminds me on a former experience with the 8528 that has been published after my feedback some months ago. It killed the audio part when streaming to the iOS app and has been removed from the download site shortly afterwards. Conclusion: lack of knowledge and experience in regards to Apple coding, quick and dirty fixes, no systematic quality control, no professional product management and communication and most important: lack of business ethics. The Geniatech management is fully aware of the problems but they prefer to sell a software that is simply not ready for the market. With all due respect to your defence of this company, what Geniatech is doing is beyond what is legally acceptable. And I have long been surprised that no one has taken legal action against this company. As I wrote in an earlier post: We should all flood Geniatech's mail addresses with our complaints. By the way: I already sent them a support request. Up to now, I got no response. What a surprise!

If you go to the RoaringApps page for EyeTV and scroll down to the "compatibility notes" there is a link to a version 8528 that has done the trick for me on an Apple Silicon MacBook Air M1 with EyeTV T2 Hybrid.

I wonder when the LIERS at Genitech will stop lying at tell us what is really going on. This is time for a class action lawsuit. There is no technical issue, this I am assure of. As am electronics designer with a solid computer background (and an MSEE) I could have walked to the server in China or wherever it is, fixed it and walked back to Los Angeles in the time they have been lying about a "server issue". I can only think that they are using the Donald Trump school of business. Lie enough until they believe there own BS. I dare them to come clean. I suspect they can not afford to pay TV guide (and maybe others) so they continue to lie about the real cause. No one on this forum believes you anymore. If they remove this post I will continue to post it every day until I die !

I asked Geniatech for a refund of my EPG annual subscription on the basis that the software had not been repaired and there did not appear to be any likelihood of it being repaired. The reply from the company was: "Very sorry that we still do not have a solution for it. I will send you email once our engineer has a solution. We will extend the time of your EPG validity period for the outage period. Our engineer is really trying to solve it. Our engineer may need some time." I have now made alternative arrangements for recording tv programmes and will not be renewing my subscription if the EPG ever comes back on line.

Hello Geniatech, The major networks begin their new fall season in less than 6 days... IT WOULD BE SO NICE TO KNOW THAT YOUR ENGINEERS HAVE SOLVE THE "PROBLEM" (Or the office finally scraped together enough cash to pay your vendors like TV Guide). IT'S BEEN ONE MONTH SINCE I REPORTED IT AND NEARLY 7 WEEKS WITH NO USE OF THE PROGRAM GUIDE. There is no such thing as a server problem that takes this long to fix. STOP LYING ABOUT IT. While I'm listed as a 'Newbie,' I've been using Eye-TV for more than 10 years!! FIX THIS!!!

Can you start in terminal window and type : /Applications/EyeTV.app/Contents/MacOS/EyeTV (Key Enter) Have you a message about signature concerning framework CoreAVC ? If so, do : stop EyeTV type the command in terminal codesign --remove-signature /Applications/EyeTV.app/Contents/MacOS/EyeTV and restart EyeTV

I wrote a python script that gets an xml file of my listings. I see from the scripts very nicely shared above, that opening EyeTV with such an xml file causes the program to parse it and populate its data in the in-program guide. But, do you know whether I can just store the xml file in some directory on the computer so that EyeTV just accesses the data from there? I'm using a Mac. Once I get this working, I can share the script.

Aber wäre es dann nicht konsequenter, Klartext zu reden und den Usern - z.B. mit einem Hinweis auf der Homepage - reinen Wein einzuschenken? Andere Software-Firmen machen das auch. Das Problem totzuschweigen kostet das Unternehmen meiner Ansicht nach mehr Reputation als wenn man die Schwierigkeiten eingestehen würde. Vielleicht liest Geniatech ja hier mit, und das Management entscheidet sich doch noch, offen und ehrlich mit seinen (zahlenden und zahlreichen) Kunden zu kommunizieren.

tv_grab_eu_epgdata is the grabber name but I just went to their site and it looks like they have stopped providing the EPG I must be lucky that the EPG in the UK is provide by TV Guide and free of charge The full list of grabbers installed by xmltv is: tv_grab_ar tv_grab_eu_epgdata tv_grab_fr tv_grab_it tv_grab_na_tvmedia tv_grab_uk_tvguide tv_grab_ch_search tv_grab_fi v_grab_huro tv_grab_na_dd tv_grab_pt_meo tv_grab_zz_sdjson tv_grab_fi_sv tv_grab_is tv_grab_na_dtv tv_grab_tr

please feel free to try that zipped folder it contains the complete folder and subfolders from Library/Frameworks... FWAUserLib.framework.zip

I've rolled back to Mojave and running latest EyeTV 3 (7528).

eyeTV 4 Mac is a chinese fake app Nothing dows work as advertized, nothing. Save your money, don´t buy eyeTV 4 Mac !!

I installed 7528 over the weekend, and made the following observations to pass on. Up to this point I have kept our version at 7520, because later versions did not recognize our HDHomeRun. Some of these may not be news to you if you have installed versions after 7520: 7528 installed and worked fine, picking up all existing recordings and schedules. (After TV Guide stopped working, we have been scheduling using TitanTV because it was not that much of a hassle, and could be done from any of our devices with a web browser.) 7528 recognizes our HDHomeRun again. While others in this thread have also noticed this, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in any release notes, so I'm wary that it might not be officially/permanently supported. But at least there is now a build that we can use as long as we don't need the Mac to go beyond macOS 10.14 (since 10.15 won't run 32-bit applications). That means we can keep using this version of EyeTV at least until 10.14 stops getting security updates, which might be in 2022. So, another 3 years of service at least. Of course, this is a moot point if Geniatech issues a 64-bit update of EyeTV. We are in the USA. Now that the TV Guide subscription is available again, I paid to subscribe for another year. Price went up from $20 to $30 a year, not happy about a 33% price increase. But it works again. I ran a channel rescan. At the end it puts up the dialog box where you enter your zip code and choose how you get your TV (I choose OTA broadcast). At this point 7528 would either crash, or hang with the rainbow pinwheel of death. I had two zip codes entered; testing revealed that it crashed if I left it that way, but no longer crashed if I deleted the second zip code so that there was only one ZIP code in there. I had to go into Channels view and make sure all channels were set to EyeTVEPGPremium-USA, because they had lost their program guide setting after TV Guide went down. The easiest way to do this is Select All first, then change one and all selected channels update. The left column of 7528 includes the EyeTV Plus service. This is not available in the USA, so it was just taking up space. It turns out you can disable EyeTV Plus in Preferences, so that disappears from the left column. All in all I'm relieved that we no longer have to consider an alternative OTA recorder for our old faithful Mac mini. (I do have Plex but it has its own issues.) We'll just keep cranking along with EyeTV. While I thank Geniatech for this update, I am not happy about how it happened because after TV Guide became unavailable and HDHomeRun support was dropped, communication with customers was handled very badly. They need to work on this.

Downloaded and installed EyeTV 3.6.9 (version 7528) on two Minis running OSX Sierra (10.12.6). Both successfully downloaded and populated TV listings for the upcoming two weeks. Both have also scheduled, recorded, and played back chosen programming successfully. So, all is as it was prior to February of this year when the software's TV Guide service quit working. I did not receive any notification from Angela that there was now a new working version of the software. Fortunately I was able to find that out here. Thanks to all...

These old discussion threads are now quite long, making current topics hard to find. So I just started a new topic under Discussions "EyeTV 3 Version 7528 release Experiences" so we can focus discussion of the new version there and make it easier for people to find. Thank you.

Elgato used to I believe resell a version of the SiliconDust network DVB-T tuner. Recently I bought a HDHR4-2DT model SiliconDust tuner as the only way to get DVB-T2 on a Mac since for years Elgato had failed to release any DVB-T2 tuners. Update I see Geniatech now list a USB DVB-T2 tuner but still do not have a network DVB-T2 tuner. The EyeTV software does sill support HDHomeRun tuners and I can successfully get EyeTV to find it and can also get it to successfully get EyeTV to scan for channels, and also to view both DVB-T standard definition channels and DVB-T2 high definition channels. Unfortunately I am finding three old bugs specific to using a HDHomeRun tuner with EyeTV still exist. I first encountered these bugs with an older HDHR3-DT model which is DVB-T only. With the recent discontinuation of the previously free RadioTimes XMLTV guide source on June 16th 2016 these bugs have now become more critical as I now have to use the DVB guide instead. I have reported these issues to Geniatech a week ago but as of yet still had no response. I am using the latest 20150826 firmware and software for the HDHomeRun. Bug 1 When I tell EyeTV 3.6.9 build 7416 to use the DVB guide data for channels and to then scan for DVB guide data it will initially start off successfully scanning but part way through will stop finding guide data with the result at the end of the scan only some of the channels will show guide data. I have proven that all the channels do have DVB guide data available by doing the same thing in Windows using the exact same HDHomeRun tuner and this finds DVB guide data for all channels with no problems, and also a real TV fitted with its own DVB-T/T2 tuner is also able to get DVB guide data for all channels. More importantly I can even successfully get DVB guide data for all channels in EyeTV if I tune in to an view individual channels for a few minutes - long enough for EyeTV to extract DVB guide data automatically from that channels/multiplex. If I do this for all the channels missed out during the full scan I can get a full set of DVB guide data for all channels but obviously this is extremely tedious and time consuming and should not be necessary. It seems the failure of the full scan for DVB guide data fails at the same point each time and this seems to be when EyeTV switches from scanning one channel or multiplex to another. However remember it is possible to get DVB guide data for all channels by manually tuning in to and viewing them so it is not as simple as a specific channel causing EyeTV to choke. Bug 2 Once EyeTV has been told to do a full DVB guide data update and it as per bug 1 fails part way through, a subsequent DVB Guide update request will fail straight away as will a 3rd, 4th, etc. It is only possible to then get even a partial scan to work by quitting and relaunching EyeTV. Note: This would further support the case that it is not simply EyeTV choking on the results of a DVB guide scan from a specific channel since a repeat request starts from the first channel which on the 1st attempt does at least give some results. Bug 3 If EyeTV is not used i.e. not running for an indeterminate amount of time - more than a few minutes per a few hours, then EyeTV will no longer reconnect to the network tuner. It then becomes necessary to re-run the EyeTV Setup Assistant and reselect the network tuner. Fortunately you do not have to re-scan for channels. All three of these issues have previously also occurred with older versions of EyeTV, and both a HDHR4-2DT and an older HDHR3-DT tuner and also older versions of the HDHomeRun firmware and software. On the good news front EyeTV is able to extract DVB guide data for DVB-T2 high definition channels which at least in the UK using the Freeview HD service are apparently encrypted with a simple Huffman encoding.

I tried to update the software but I cannot get a signal though.

I've got a similar issue on a Windows 10 system. The app (THC and TotalTV) starts quite normal and immedately after showing the TV-panel it crashes without any qualified errormessage. The problem started after the last Microsoft core-update this week.

I have requested this some time ago and nothing has changed, so I'll try again... I have eyeTV 3 and iOS eyeTV. All seems to work. My eyeTV 3 is installed on one of the most powerful computers you can get and the computer does not sweat simultaneously saving 4 TV streams in HD (I have 2 x 2 channel HomeRun HD) and playing back another, previously stored, HD recording. And still has cpu and hard drive resources available for something else. It is really powerful media center beast with OSX, used exclusively for this purpose. Annoying thing is that I can - on iOS - without any issues play live streams from my eyeTV 3 and all is working very well. I can be behind in time and jump around... But once the recording is done, I am immediately locked out from playing the same recording for ~20 minutes before the ~hour of recording is "prepared". That is extremely frustrating as : 1. Preparation is not necessary, if the live stream works just fine. 2. Even if preparation would be necessary, the eyeTV computer will be ahead of me in no time. I know I may not be able to jump ahead easily - or that it may take some time before the recompression catches up - but this "preparing" is extremely annoying and frustrating. Can you enable live streaming of saved recordings so they get recompressed on fly? Just allow on fly recompression and remove the "preparing" when computer is powerful enough - chances I will need to watch the same recording second time are small so I do not need to store the recompressed recording anyway. There are now many computers which can easily handle that.