ATSC-user

I am not having any big issues using EyeTV 4 (8531) on an M2 Pro Mac Mini running MacOS 13.6.1 with an (ATSC) EyeTV Hybrid USB stick. I will not be moving to Sonoma anytime soon; I am a late adopter. EyeTV 4 is a separate purchase, not a free upgrade, from EyeTV 3.x. For me, EyeTV 4 works well enough. Some people posting here seem to have many issues. I found that it was VERY important to use the no-cost EyeTV Reporter tool (available from Geniatech.EU) to remove all traces of EyeTV3 BEFORE I tried to install EyeTV 4. Making backups before doing the upgrade is always sensible, as with any upgrade. (Aside: I strongly suspect El Gato built EyeTV 3 on the CARBON interface, which was deprecated when MacOS moved to 64-bit. I believe GeniaTech had to do a lot of work to rewrite the 3.x software to support the COCOA interface required with a 64-bit MacOS.)

I am running EyeTV 4 (8531) on an M2 Pro Mac Mini running MacOS 13.6.1 with an (ATSC) EyeTV Hybrid USB stick without big issues. I am a late adopter, so I will wait a long while before I upgrade to Sonoma.

As of 31 Oct 2023, EyeTV 4 (8531) can be found here, along with several other versions going back to (8521): At www.GeniaTech.eu under Support-->EyeTV 4 Software I am running (8531) on an M2 Pro Mac Mini running MacOS 13.6.1 without issues. I use an (ATSC, not DVB-T/T2) EyeTV Hybrid USB stick.

In North America, on an M2 Pro Mac Mini running MacOS 13.6.1, with an older (ATSC) EyeTV Hybrid USB stick, with EyeTV 4 (8531), EyeTV works well enough for me. I am not experiencing many of the issues described in this forum. I did do a completely clean removal of EyeTV 3.x using their EyeTV Reporter tool before I upgraded to EyeTV 4 (years ago now). Also, please understand that I do not use (or care about) any Internet-based EPG, as ATSC TV transmitters send the EPG over-the-air automatically and continuously for free. I do not know how DVB-T/T2 works as we do not have that here.

In North America, I find that loss of XMLTV or whatever Internet-based EPG is not a big problem, because the ATSC standard used here always sends EPG program information over the air all the time. One might need to periodically (maybe every 12-24 hours) ask EyeTV 4 (from the "Program Guide" window), especially to force a scan/update of the OTA program listings for channels one does not regularly watch. Obviously, this means setting up a recording a week (or several days) in advance will not work, but for my purposes it is good enough. FWIW, I am using EyeTV 4 (8531) with a Geniatech EyeTV Hybrid USB stick (ATSC, not DVB-T/T2) on MacOS, but I am NOT yet on Ventura. I am a late-adopter and will wait before upgrading -- I do not need anything new in Ventura. IANAL, but Geniatech might have legal problems with sales or providing support in the USA because Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) is actually enforced here. Other countries might talk about DMCA-like restrictions, but they are not really enforced in most countries. So only US residents really suffer due to those copying/editing restrictions. Btw, DMCA is also what forced the switch from the older DVI interface to the HDMI interface -- DVI did not support enforcement of copyright restrictions while HDMI can.

I suspect that Geniatech is a hardware company and that (any) software is neither their focus nor their main capability.

Thanks for the post about EyeTV on Sonoma 14.0. I do not need anything in Sonoma, so I will wait and wait to upgrade MacOS -- until a new EyeTV 4 release version comes out and other folks report it working reliably under Sonoma.

I find Geniatech is not good at interactive user support. I strongly suspect that before installing EyeTV 4, everyone ought to first use their EyeTV Reporter tool to remove all traces of EyeTV 3.x. That is what I had to do -- years ago -- to successfully install EyeTV 4. With that caveat, EyeTV 4 (8531) works for me on both an M2 Mini and an i5 MBP, running MacOS 13.6.1 on the Mini and 12.latest on the MBP and using an (ATSC, not DVB-T/T2) Hybrid USB stick. EyeTV 4 still is a bit quirky, compared with EyeTV 3, especially in editing, but it works well enough for my purposes.