Lawrence In Hampshire

Hi Thierry, **** FIRST, & MOST IMPORTANT! Silicon Dust make versions of their hardware for the US and European markets. The Flex 4K seems to be for the US market only, so that WILL NOT WORK OVER HERE. European models have -2DT or -4DT in their model name. The Yankee ones have -US, and/or mention ATSC, which is their transmission standard. See <https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/> and click on Connect or Flex under Hardware Info on that page. Note also that the HDHomeRun is designed for "Free to Air" channels only -- not encrypted channels. **** I'm in the UK, so can only speak for TV over here; judging from reviews of the HDHomeRun on Amazon.fr, it seems to work over there, but "Your Mileage May Vary". Short answer is ... it works fine. I have exactly the same setup as you plan. The TV Picture looks very good on a 27" iMac -- I don't use my TV any more to watch. In detail: My iMac (2020, Intel, 27", with MacOS Sonoma) runs EyeTV 4 and connects via WiFi to my local network. The HDHomeRun is connected via Ethernet to the WiFi Access Point. When you run EyeTV's Setup Assistant (for "geniatech" hdhomerun devices) the first time it scans for HDHomeRun tuners on the network, and from then onwards EyeTV detects the HDHomeRun, and just uses it. I have a 5th Generation HDHomeRun Connect Quatro with 4 tuners (HDHR5-4DT). It receives "standard" & HD channels (using DTT/T or DTT/T2, as needed). The Quatro in the model name means it has 4 tuners, and Duo would mean it had 2 tuners. EyeTV can only handle 2 of the tuners, ignoring the other two. However, it does work, showing live TV (with pause/resume and recording) and does download and show the Over The Air programme guide. It appears that the only difference between the Connect and Flex versions is that the Flex version has a USB socket to connect an external Disc. Unless you will use Silicon Dust's own HDHomeRun app [and pay the £35! or whatever per year for that feature & off-air TV listings], there seems no way to use any external Disc connected to the HDHR Flex. It isn't used (or needed) when using EyeTV, as that uses the Mac to store recordings. => the Flex models are effectively the same as the Connect models, and as EyeTV ignores any more than two tuners, the Duo or Quatro versions behave the same. Alternatives: In terms of hardware, Silicon Dust are the only modern network TV tuners I've seen that work with Macs. The old Netstream only supports DTT/T so it's outdated (and won't pick up HD broadcast channels; I know this as I had one :). As you can see from the other forum topics, EyeTV 4 is buggy, but there aren't good alternatives for recording TV with a Mac, and at least over in the UK, it picks up the OTA programme guide and displays that well. If you just want to watch live TV (with no pause/resume, no OTA programme guide display, and no recording), the HDHR works with VLC as well -- the HDHR runs a web server, and you can download a channel list (as a .m3u file from <http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.m3u>), add that to VLC, and just click on the channel list in VLC. Not having pause/resume for live TV (or recording) is a major limitation, but at least VLC doesn't crash. Silicon Dust DO provide their own HDHomeRun app, but activating the recording function costs a non-trivial subscription charge per year. It's not clear if this software reads and displays the OTA programme guide -- they charge a subscription for their programme guide, so I suspect not. I have not tried that software (as I think they're joking with their subscription prices) so cannot comment further. all the best Lawrence p.s.: The HDHomeRun tuner also works perfectly with EyeTV 3 software, so if you have an old iMac, that works fine (without the added crashes of EyeTV 4).

Hi Folks, As yet another long-time user of this pile of software [in the UK, using DVB via a HDHR5 on an iMac 2020 & seprately via an EyeTV T2 lite connected to an M1 Mini], I also have waaay too much experience of EyeTV 4 crashing on exit. Here are my notes on the miriad problems (all noted in the automatic core dump reports I sent to this unresponsive bunch): Yes, it does crash on exit - BUT ... For me, closing ALL live [DVB] video windows BEFORE quitting mostly means it doesn't (usually) core dump. For some reason, opening a recorded programme file and leaving that video window open will mostly avoid EyeTV 4 cr*pping out, but having a Live TV window open is pretty much guaranteed to die on exit. There's still the joy that it will occasionally crash if I'm trying to update the DVB Program Guide -- this seems to happen when it can't find any new programmes on any of the Muxes ("found 0 ..."). That seems to confuse it; it seems to switch to the Channels list spontaneously for a second or so before crashing out. Thing is, if you don't update the program guide manually this fine example of software tries to update the guide itself, and there seems no way to tell it not to bother. That means if you're displaying the Program Guide, it jumps from channel to channel as it's scanning, which makes it hard to look for programmes as they disappear off the top or bottom of the window. All in all, an intereesting example of software at its very best -- but from experience, at least you should be able to avoid it crashing most of the time. I'd be interested to hear if others can also stop the irritating crashes by just closing DVB video windows before hitting Quit (even if they're hidden behind the Program Guide window as it's decided they need to be open at start, despite any preferences to the contrary). Oh, and if you have any way to get the message over to the developers about what should be glaringly obvious bugs (and that should be easy to fix, as they're pretty much always memory allocation problems that happen in fairly precise situations) I'd be interested in hearing how. Preferably with cattle prods, as it looks like nothing else works. atb, Lawrence p.s. I note that the HDHR5 seems to work well with VLC (by exporting the .e2u file from the HDHR [ http://<your-hdhr5-name-here>/lineup.m3u], then text editing that file to sort the channels, then importing the .e2u into VLC and dropping it in as the Media Library. Works for me, anyway (but without being able to pause on the stream, and without recording). At least VLC doesn't crash