Holden

Eric....Both empty. Did change EyeTV Prefs from TV Guide to None. Before disappearance of all channels, I had successfully changed each channel EPG source to XMLTV and linked to the correct channel description drop down window you get when you first elect xmltv. Changed all undesired channels to None in the EPG drop down. Made sure the channels left xmltv-enabled in EyeTV exactly matched the channel set created in XMLTV.COM. I did get a successful download after the prep work which I dropped on EyeTV program icon and it gave me 2 weeks of my desired channels and programs info displayed. But in the process of trying to "automate" the process for daily download, I somehow cleared all the channels taht had been in the EyeTV channels window leaving it blank and with it blank, the Program Guide window also went blank. The "service" selector at the bottom of the channels window said "None Available" and with that, the auto-tune box was dark and unselectable. Even going to back to the EyeTV "Set-Up Assistant" wouldn't show me the cable supplier options for my Zip as it used to do, leaving me nothing to choose in order to restore a list of the channels my Cable box was feeding to my TV and the EyeTV box via Component cabling. Sometime tonight my Time Machine "Restore" will recreate the Mini as it was in mid-January before EyeTV's TV-Guide service crapped and I can begin again. If that restore repopulates all the channels my cable box is providing to the EyeTV hardware, I think I am going to try and fumble my way through the "schedules direct" solution "EYEMISSELGATO" created some help for in the other longer thread. If indeed my Time Machine restore gets my Mini back to its pre-problematic state, I know I can keep doing that until I get this right. Only the next time I'll Ethernet the Time Machine hardware to the Mini and dramatically shorten the restore time that I have been tied to waiting for the restore over Wi-F 🙂 Has anyone gotten and accepted an offer from Angela to "test" whatever software they are working on that was mentioned in the other forum? I was briefly successful following your (Wisconsin Eric's) "how-to" document which does work with the XMLTV fix! Thanks to all here for taking the time to do all of the consulting for us!

I did successfully receive a pro-rated refund of my TV Guide subscription fee from Geniatech through PayPal and since I was already in process of trying the .xmltv solution, I decided to push through to the end on that before trying EYEMISSELGATO's (and others) 'schedules.direct' fix. But, alas, I found my way to where 'jpmist27' landed and somehow lost EyeTV's EPG channels previously populated by TV Guide when that was still working leaving nothing to work with...grrrrr. I tried reinstalling a new copy of EyeTV 3.x after removing all EyeTV related files and folders. But during set-up it wouldn't create the channels again because the Set-Up Assistant uses a successful connection to the TV Guide server to do that which isn't happening....double grrr. I am going to try and wipe the Mini's drive and restoring from a Time Machine back-up from mid-January when all was well, but that is going to take awhile

New wrinkle here...Just as I got my cable provider's .xmltv download file created, matched the EyeTV channels check boxes to it and changed my desired still-checked channels EPG sources to "xmltv" I was able to successfully downloaded two weeks worth of schedules for the channels i had chosen at .xmltv.com. Then something I did cleared out all channels in EyeTV which were originally populated by the software's interaction with the TV Guide server back when it was working and just modified as part of the xmlv conversion. Now I have nothing to work with and no ability to reconnect to the EyeTV TV Guide server.. Dragging my newly created and downloaded .xmltv file on top of the EyeTV app doesn't bring back my newly chosen channels. With no channels now in the EyeTV window i can't configure my cable box to change EyeTV channels and set any recordings. Any ideas on how to repopulate EyeTV with any channels from any provider?

Just finished up requesting a refund from PayPal. Fortunately I was just barely within their 180-day limit for processing a complaint for a refund. Now off to pursue EYEMISSELGATO's solution using "schedulesdirect" JSON...wish me luck!

I filled out a new "support ticket" demanding a refund and received this reply from "Angela"... > Hello Holden > Sorry for the inconvenience. > The restoration has been completed. We are testing it now. We will inform you > immediately once it is finished testing. > Kind regards, > Angela > Geniatech EyeTV Support Team I'm going to give it one more week and then start working with PayPal to get my money back,

My Support ticket response from Angela at Geniatech: Hello Holden, Thank you for your request. Sorry for the inconvenience. We just come back from our Spring Festival Holidays. It is a technical issue. which will take us a few days to fix it. We will keep you informed. Please wait with patience. Kind regards, Angela If the Spring Festival is the one where copious quantities of beer are consumed , maybe that is a factor in the delay. 🙂

Thanks all for the TitanTV responses. I made a point in my support ticket to just ask how I go about receiving a refund on the unused portion of my 2019 payment good through September 19th. Nice to see the next post quoting the response on Facebook about subscription extensions!

Total non-programmer user here and the solution that seems to have evolved after lots of diligent and thoughtful work seems daunting to me. Has anyone figured out how to modify the EyeTV software to make TitanTV work which I used successfully in the pre-TVGuide EyeTV era as brief as it was? TitanTV is no longer a selectable *source* in the EyeTV software's Guide "Service" Pull-down window....

Thanks Ton! Maybe there is a better solution for my need. I suffer from a hearing loss in certain frequencies which the Equalizer function in DVD Player corrects very well. Maybe there is an equalizer app that will work in conjunction with EyeTV that would add that functionality to just playing back the .eyetv recorded program?

Is it possible to convert .eyetv files to VIDEO TS files and make them playable with the Mac "DVD Player" application?