jpmist27

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  1. Thanks, different strokes - different folks, certainly everyone's situation is different. Mine is that I have old Apple Mini's lying around cause I never got around to selling them off when I upgraded to a newer one. I also have my TV as the monitor for my EyeTV 2012 Mini and it works as well now as it did 8 years ago. I do nothing else on that Mini but check IMBD and sports scores on ESPN on Safari so I honestly don't care what bells and whistles Apple loads on every new bloated OS they put out. Maybe when everything is 4K I'll have to upgrade but that's likely a long way off . . .
  2. Thank for your replies! I suppose I'm fortunate to be able to keep an old 8 year old Mini in service with an old OS and EyeTV but I'm puzzled why other's don't consider that an reasonable option? As unhappy as it makes us all, the EyeTV program is dead- the original programmers are long gone and there is no hope for it to be modernized to Apple's OS and zero hope when Apple changes to their own new processor chips. HDMI licensing and DRM issues have made making the HDMI boxes too expensive to market where the rest of the video world has moved on to streaming As long as my Cable service doesn't abandon the box I've been using for over 10 years, the EyeTV program will continue to allow me to record shows, archive and share them in any format I want, have the wonderful skip forward option plus an integrated TV guide. EyeTV works as well today as it did the day I got it, I dunno why that's not enough? Apologies for the rant . . .
  3. Well, I gave their website a quick scan, but didn't seen anything there to abandon my EyeTV setup. I have a dedicated 2012 Mini system frozen on 10.12 and will keep it there until they take it from my cold dead hands . . . My setup depends on being able to take an hdmi connection from a cable box so I didn't see any way to do that with the Tablo. And am curious, does the Tablo allow you to record a streaming signal from Netflix, Showtime etc? Are you able to end up with a video file from a streaming show?
  4. Well, for what it's worth, I'm running EyeTV (7527) on a Late 2012 2.3GHZ with MacOS 10.12.6. EyeTV runs a bit flakey at times - there are times I have to restart the Mac because I get a blank screen when I select "Open Live Window." So what's been working for me is to run OnyX weekly to keep everything running ok. Consider trying that or MacJanitor to clean up any system files that are screwing up EyeTV. Failing that it might be time to wipe your system and re-install?
  5. What box do you have? There's always the possibility that the box has simply failed - 10 years is a pretty good run. I had a 200 model once that died . . . And it could also be software and or OS system related. When the application is opened, open the Preferences, then to the Device menu - do the two drop boxes show your EyeTV box?
  6. Spam free today! Many thanks to the forum moderators!
  7. I recall once seeing a way to mute someone posting on this site, does anyone know? A shame that a few spam-assholes has rendered this forum completely useless
  8. (3) Yes, if you downgrade from Catalina you can re-set up your EyeTV. It's not a simple process as you really should backup everything as you'll have to wipe your drive of all data and find a way to install an older OS. To reinstall a system, I'd suggest using Internet Recovery which gives you the option of installing the OS your Mac came with instead of reinstalling Catalina. More here https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/downgrade-macos-3581872/ (2) As far as I know, all you need is the product key to activate the software for the new install. However that's half the battle, you'll have to set up the program guide once again so be sure you still know the account ID and password you used for that. (1) I haven't done that, dunno, my guess is you have a EyeTV HD (component outputs?) and it should be supported but perhaps someone will confirm.
  9. Just FYI, my problem with the preference file not saving the changes made to my list of Channels was solved by reinstalling the MacOS. I'm in 10.10 now and EyeTV is now working fine. The reinstall also fixed a lot of random crashes I was having with EyeTV as well as the program failing to change the channel correctly for recording a show. Problem I'm having now is that my Turbo.264 HD stick isn't being recognized by the neither OS or the EyeTV program so I can't use it . . .
  10. Yeah, I miss the descriptions in EyeTV 3 as well. Another argument for just sticking with TitanTV which does have the description as well as some other useful features.
  11. The Elgato Turbo.264 HD is still working great for me. If you're patient they pop up on eBay every month or so for $30
  12. Thanks for that, but I think the issue is the program isn't writing or reading it's own preferences files properly. I did try what you suggested, but after closing and reopening the program the channels were all back to before I changed them. It's getting tiresome to turn off 40 channels I don't want to see in the Program Guide so it's gonna be TitanTV for now till they get around to fixing this . . .
  13. Reporting back after 10 days and this version is kinda glitchy. At first in the Channels pane it didn't recognize that I receive my channels via the Composite input, but that fixed itself on it's own after a few minutes. But now I have another glitch. After having been rock solid with the same cable box for several years, in the last year the program fails to tune to a channel I have set to record. It fails about 30% of the time. Wanting to record a movie, I'll get 2 hours of the wrong channel instead. I've been working thru the EyeTV Setup Assistant to get to the part where I can change how many channel numbers for the program can send to the IR blaster as well as buttons to enter after the channel and the speed the program sends the channel numbers. What I've found is when I close out the Assistant the program freezes for a few seconds or crashes. When I restart the program I have to go back and uncheck about 40 channels in the Channels pane that my cable box can receive that I don't want to watch. Then going to the program guide a random selection of 5 or 6 channels populate the guide and I have to manually update the guide to get it to show all the channels I have checked in the Channel pane. After a few times this is getting annoying. . . If you're out there Angela I could use some help . . .
  14. So after putting it off a few weeks after I managed to buy the upgraded EPG, I tried getting it set up and of course it didn't work the first time as I feared. My fault of course cause I wasn't using the 7528 version. With that I got the Preferences to recognize my new subscription key but not until I wiped the EPG Database would the Program populate with listings. DTV has about 1,000 channels so it's gonna take a while, ( 10minutes!) then I'll have to delete about 950 of them. But it'll be good to have the listings back, I really missed the IMBD links it offered. Ah, I saved my Channels! Whew! In the Channel window I see now that TV Guide has been replaced by EyeTV Premium in the EPG column. But going back to the Program guide it shows only one channel, yikes. Oh, well back to the default channel setting and manually deleting. So I have 2 weeks worth of program guide and my IMBD links are still there. Have programed a few things to record just to test it out. Fingers crossed.
  15. Can you add some color to that statement? Who is it that's stating this? Not sure what source you're citing besides "Today all stream TV series" which I can't find any info on. Not a surprise to me, there's not many offerings for DVR boxes anymore that handle anything besides OTA and I think it's due to more restrictive HDMI and DRM licensing. The content providers simply don't want their content copied in any manner even though time shifting personal copies is perfectly legal. Like Comcast does to TiVO, they can litigate any smaller hardware manufacturer for years to keep DVR boxes off the market. Just my opinion. So either get used to Streaming only or set up a EyeTV Mini to keep on 10.14 . . .
  16. Considering we're at 3 months past the TV Guide debacle with only a beta version of EyeTV to address it, I'd say your pessimism is justified. But I'm sure I'm not alone in having a dedicated Mini to keep on whatever 32 bit MacOS version you like on it just to run EyeTV. I've been running my TV as a Mac Desktop for over 15 years and I see nothing on the streaming box horizon to change that. Fortunately old 2012 Mini's which are easily upgraded last quite a long time and run just fine with older OS's. They're easy and cheap to find on eBay so, that's my recommendation for ya . . .
  17. Thanks EyeMiss, I'm setting the channel in advance as well for shows I don't wanna miss, but often I'll have a few shows due to record overnight on different channels. At least it's good to know it's not just me. I have a backup HD box, maybe I'll see how that one does. . .
  18. I use an EyeTV HD and have a IR blaster going from it to the DirecTV cable box to change channels. There was a time when it was 100% reliable but now at least once or twice a weeks it fails to enter all three channel numbers- (usually missing the first one or two) and I get a nice recording of something I don't want. The IR blaster is taped to the front of the box where the IR sensor is and is out of direct light. I know there's a way to adjust the timing of the signals in the Setup Assistant, I just don't know what parameters to adjust. It seems lately that generally, it takes longer to change channels for some reason. MacOS 10.10.5, EyeTV 3.6.9 (7416) Anybody else have this issue and solved it? Thanks.
  19. I get this periodically and nothing but a Mac reboot will fix it. Currently on 10.10.5. and 3.6.9 (7418) It's some type of application crash, as all the other functions work except for the live picture. . .
  20. Nice going, thanks for spending the time. So this computer didn't have a prior EyeTV install, so no EyeTV files in the System? Where I got lost is the "import my channel list part", since I've never done that. Any chance you could manually add the missing channels? The beta has been out for a month and I was hoping they'd have a final version released by now, but I gather from what you reported, it's just not ready yet. . .
  21. Thanks for that! I knew it had to be somewhere. I discovered that TextWrangler is no more, bought up by BBedit, which I tried and I still couldn't see the channels listed. No biggie, but good to know for sure which file to archive.
  22. That was the part I was curious about, thinking you'd read some recent article about Rovi contracting with TV Guide. Thanks for the "thanks" but I wasn't in that conversation. (Edit: Oops, maybe that wasn't directed to me. . .) We all use eyeTV differently I suppose, my use and the reason you have to tear EyeTV from my cold dead hands is the DVR controls. I watch almost nothing in real time because commercial skipping is so effortless. Plus I can watch a football game in 50 minutes thanks to the custom skip forward controls. I use different settings to watch golf and basketball, but baseball is impossible. No one else has that, either because Geniatech has the patent for it or Comcast and AT&T simply wants skipping commercials with their DVRs to be cumbersome. For my content management, I like the excellent ElGato Turbo.264 HD stick with it's excellent software to shrink the EyeTv recordings down and store 'em on an external drive. The HD Turbo stick pops up on eBay from time to time and with it's software it makes archiving pretty easy.
  23. Thanks for that as well as your test of the beta. Can you expand on this bit of news? My basic google news search didn't come up with anything for Rovi Corp & Geniatech.
  24. Sorry about that! Seems like you went thru what I did. I also ended up using a Time Machine backup to get it going again, but I'm still convinced the channels list is in a preference file somewhere in the System Library, so I dug into the system and have stored copies of all the EyeTv/ elGato files I could find. There are files in the Application Support folder as well as the Preferences folder in both the System and User libraries. I tried reading the ones I could with TextEdit but couldn't find anything like a channel list. Still haven't gotten up the mental energy to go rooting around with the xmltv solution, but frankly, I had been using TitanTV for years before breaking down and shelling out for the TV Guide so it's not a big loss to go back to it. . . Glad you got yours back up and running and to everyone else, just for insurance, consider backing up those system files. . .
  25. Many thanks for all that, I appreciate the time spent. I'm going to give XMLTV.com another try so this may come in handy if I screw it up again . . .