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  1. I prefer the 1st of May but any date will work. Will need to figure out what time this will be in the central US time zone. Thank you
  2. I think it is very clear that the function we expected of the EyeTV app for ATV is to have at least the same abilities as the EyeTV iPad app. Please know our disappointment is not at the add feature the the Netstream app brings for Netstream owners. If I owned the Netstream device I would be happy for any additional access. As far as the issue of my Mac running. Unless the power is out the little Mac Mini is running 24/7 and it will keep running until it dies. All my media is handled by the Mac Mini with a external mulidrive storage. EyeTV allows me to record and watch whenever I choose so long as my Mac Mini is running. The iOS apps for both iPhone and iPad work very well and AirPlay or Mirroring is okay but direct access between ATV and your Mac would be best. The issue of porting the EyeTV iPad to the ATV is subjective but several of us have volunteered to put in the work. I appreciate if Geniatech will commit to at least porting the iPad EyeTV to ATV. Also as several of us are so involved in this discussion please let us beta test. Beta testing goes so far with goodwill towards your most active customers. I will even commit to add a Netstream device to my home network as long as it will work with over the air antenna here in the US. And the last issue to address is local verse cloud storage of recordings. Please do not move to cloud based storage or if you do let that just be an option. Local storage of recordings allows cutting commercials, archiving and streaming over the home network or web. I stand by my earlier statement, EyeTV is still the best DVR program for Mac. If I am invited to a live meeting to talk about features I will make myself available. Seeing as you guys are in the Netherlands this meeting just be during my bedtime but I can just put on a extra strong pot of coffee. Thank you
  3. App is now in the US. Of course it is worthless. Not able to connect to EyeTV to access recordings. I can understand not supporting HDHomerun tuners, Netstream is your own brand. But not even having access to EyeTV and play recordings. There are half a dozen apps on the AppleTV that can allow you to play live TV with time shift and some free guide data. You have the EyeTV program at your disposal, at least make an app that can serve as a front end. Please tell me that I am wrong! This Netstream app is really what you have been working on since summer of 2016? At this rate a real EyeTV app will never make it to AppleTV before it is out dated.
  4. Just checked and the app is not available in the US as of this post. I have tried DVBlink and found the interface failed the ease of use test with my wife. Please just bring the iPad app to the AppleTV. That would at least bring a decent user interface to an EyeTV app on the AppleTV. If you can't or won't then please give me the app file and I will port it and side load the app on my own AppleTV. Thank you
  5. I have started using Remote Buddy on ATV. This is not a replacement for an EyeTV tvOS app but offers EyeTV access. You have to have Remote Buddy running on your Mac but video playback works well and audio can come over airplay for sound. The best part is that zero conversion has to happen as happen as the EyeTV program is actually playing the recording. Think of Remote Buddy just extending your monitor of your Mac to the ATV. I will try to post a video and uploaded a link via YouTube. Still hoping for EyeTV 4.0 and a tvOS app real soon.
  6. So today is March 20th. Is the EyeTV TVOS gone live? At least port the iPad app to TVOS we know that app works and would be so much better then what we have, nothing! Thank you
  7. So I have been debating making a switch to another DVR program for a while now. I think I will keep EyeTV for recording shows that I want to archive but will be making the jump to HDHomerun DVR. There is a good app for AppleTV called InstaTV that connects to the HDHomerun DVR program and it has live TV with time shift This will allow me to move my Mac Mini out of my media cabinet and all of the related equipment like external hard drive switch etc. Sorry that EyeTV has pushed me to this but I guess things don't necessarily have to always change for the better just because a new company buys EyeTV.
  8. Thomaskud, We are waiting for the AppleTV 4 App, tomorrow is the last day of February and unfortunately this is not a leap year. I understand that you guys might be focusing on the Netstream device but don't forget all the other loyal EyeTV customers. We own Macs for a reason. If we wanted crap programs we would have bought a PC. EyeTV is still one of the best DVR programs available, please do not disappoint your customers. I will be checking the AppleTV 4 App Store for my EyeTV app come tomorrow evening! Thank you
  9. Livezapp will only play recording that have been made "iPhone" compatible. It's live tv function is choppy and the user interface is not very pleasing. The EyeTV app for iPhone and iPad will only play recordings that have the box checked for "iPhone" next to them. This is a transcoding function and takes a while after the recording has finished. Genitech, any chance you would be willing to share the iPad App code? If the code was available the iPad app could be easily made compatible with AppleTV. If this is possible please send me a personal message. On a side note, I have downloaded DVBlink for the 20 trial version. The user interface is not near as nice as EyeTV running on my Mac. But the kicker is that I could remove my Mac Mini from my entertainment center if I use DVBlink. I say this because I am at least hoping that EyeTV's AppleTV app has as much functionality as the DVBlink app but with EyeTV polish on the user interface. Only 10 more days left in February, sure hope the post earlier that said the EyeTV app will be released by the end of February was a true statement. Thank you
  10. Thank you Joda99, I have the iPad app and use it often. What I would like to see is this type of app running on the AppleTV. The guide data and ease of recording is great with the iPad app. The only issue that would need to be addressed for the iPad app to work on the AppleTV is playing recordings. Right now recording have to be converted before they will play / stream to your iPad. Since you are able to watch live then EyeTV should be able to either convert on the fly or utilize hardware transcoding offered by other products. Still would like to see some screen shots of the EyeTV app for AppleTV that is not for the "Netstream". Thank you
  11. Do we have any screen shots of an EyeTV app that is not Netstream? If the iPad app could just be ported to the AppleTV that would be a great start. Then work on getting EyeTV 4 up and running that can serve as a backend. Thank you
  12. This is awesome! Thank you. Sure hope this will work with EyeTV and tuners that are not on Netstream as well.
  13. Hi Thomaskud, Please respond with some update. On a side note, Channels, an Apple TV app now has DVR available. It is in beta but has a great interface. Also HDhomerun DVR can be used with Insta Pro on Apple TV. I still think that Eyetv has the potential to be a better DVR program if Geniatech can get a move on it and push out the Apple TV app.
  14. Hi Thomaskud, Any updates on when the Apple TV App will be released and any news on when EyeTV 4 will be released? Thank You!
  15. Thank you Thomaskud for the reply. I will patiently wait for the first of the year. I translated the link you posted with google. Mike Decker of Geniatech in iPfelgruen.de Interview The Chinese OEM manufacturer Geniatech has taken over the TV product line from Elgato this year. Geniatech not only takes over the hardware line EyeTV with all the corresponding tuners, but also the responsibility and development of the software EyeTV, which in its current version 3 has been unchanged for a long time and yet unmatched reception and recording of live TV on the Mac Is possible. We are pleased to note that the EyeTV product line, which has only been neglected for a long time, is getting a new wind. After the release of the NetStream 4Sat, which was developed in the Forum in the first months even in a separate development area between our users and Elgato, it quickly became quiet and our contact with Elgato unfortunately terminated. Mike Decker, VP at Geniatech, was so friendly to spontaneously get iPfelgruen.de to an interview and asked us some questions about the future of EyeTV and thus a little bit out of the box, but read ... iPfelgruen.de: Hi Mike, thanks for the spontaneous interview and I want to start directly with the first question: How Geniatech and Elgato come together? Mike Decker: Thank you from me and of course I am ready to answer a fan community our new EyeTV product line a few questions. Geniatech is an OEM manufacturer from China, which supplies large TV and telecommunication manufacturers in 42 countries with its products. We are a small family with about 400 employees, you can almost say. Our company combines efficiency and dedication in equal parts. We were primarily software-compliant and in the area driver / firmware, but also smart TV at home. In Germany, we currently have 12 employees, which form the EyeTV team and also a new EyeTV team in SchenZhen. Elgato, we are one of our business partners since the TV line was lifted. We always supply Elgato with know-how and hardware, so we can say that a large part of the Elgato products have always come from our productions. So we've known each other for a long time. When we learned about Elgato's focus away from PC TV to other product lines, we saw the opportunity to adopt a great product line. This step, however, is also new to us. So far our focus has been on business customers and with EyeTV we dare to go to the front and thus directly to the customer. We have to learn that and we find that exciting. We are all the more pleased that there are already fans like you who can help us to develop our ideas close to our customers. iPfelgruen.de: That sounds promising. So they knew each other for a long time, so they could get in touch quickly. This of course saves a lot of work in the run-up to handing over. Since Geniatech has now taken over the EyeTV business in February, so far has not been much to see. The new homepage offers the same products, as before Elgato. Only DVB-T2 can now be seen on some products. What are we expecting now with regard to new products or even a new software? Mike Decker: Such a transition takes place not even just overnight. The software had to be examined intensively by us first. Even though Elgato's guys code very cleanly, it's all about countless lines of code, and so far, we have been concentrating on structuring the code of EyeTV and the drivers as we usually work to make it easier to do in the future To get along with it. Also the current release of EyeTV 3 is owed. Even if you can see little on the front, there has been a lot under the hood. The current EyeTV is now written on the basis of our core and allows us to bring further developments. I am not saying too much when I say that EyeTV 4 is currently being intensively developed and we expect a beta from July 2016, continuing to the IFA with an RC1. Obviously, EyeTV 4 is a native 64-bit program. It will differ fundamentally from the previous approach. We want to bring the entire EyeTV range into the cloud. TV enjoyment always and everywhere and also the possibility, to a range of value-added services, which one can assemble individually. But it will be even better for the hardware customers soon, because there are new tuners in preparation. On the one hand, all existing DVB-T products will be upgraded to DVB-T2; Here, by the way, even for all customers of an EyeTV Hybrid with production after 2014 firmware upgrade. And then the NetStream palette is overhauled. The new NetStream will come as DVB-C, DVB-S / S2 and DVB-T / T2 version. There will be - Achtung - variants with one, two or four tuners! And this is not enough, the images of the NetStream models are generally provided via cloud functions (yes, internet connection is also a topic) and the EPG is managed centrally in the NetStream, so that every end device, whether Android, iOS or Mac data ". iPfelgruen.de: Wow, a NetStream with central EPG via the cloud. This sounds like processing my wish list. How does it look with multiuser access? I mean, if you buy a NetStream with only one tuner, how does it run? Mike Decker: Here we will generally ensure that always allows multiple users to access. If you have, for example, a single-tuner-netstream, then you can also access it, but you have to stop within a transponder.However, several people can use the same tuner at the same time. We want to bring several people together with our new products. This is clearly our claim iPfelgruen.de: Thank you very well for this purpose. I already see you have a lot in front of and very hard on the development. I'm talking about another point, because in the list just called Android, iOS and Mac. How does it look with AppleTV or FireTV? Will something come here? Mike Decker: But of course. EyeTV 4 will be available for both FireTV and AppleTV 4. There will be an app with which you can watch the NetStream TV streams directly on these devices. If you have a FireTV or AppleTV 4, you do not need a tuner or HDD receiver more. Our NetStream delivers the image live or from built-in HDD as recording, the EPG data, everything in HD (if available unencrypted) and you look at it over the box. The AppleTV 4 app will soon shcon into the Betaphase. Maybe we'll see a report on this in the forum We will see. iPfelgruen.de: So then would thus be all gone in fulfillment of what you can ask for. Only PayTV I hear raus will not be implemented. Is that correct? Mike Decker: That's right. PayTV does not fit into an open cloud structure and we want to offer all available content in the same way. We are big fans of eg Kodi and we will see what you find in this corner. But it is not planned to integrate PayTV. iPfelgruen.de: Ok, but classic PayTV anyway seems more and more to be separated from the streaming services, so it is possible, you would put on a dead horse in terms of PayTV. One last question: What would Geniatech want to give our readers or generally to all customers? Mike Decker: It's not hard. Geniatech will bring EyeTV away from linear TV to a hybrid (cloud, etc.) experience.We will expand the scope of the functions massively and take the customer wishes seriously. I have already enumerated a lot, which is coming soon and clearly corresponds to what has been called for a long time. We are massively moving forward and usability is very important. It has to be easy, just better, as you say. And we will quickly integrate into all DVB-T products T2. iPfelgruen.de Thank you! Nice day and thanks for the nice interview! Mike Decker: You're welcome and that applies to me as well. See you soon
  16. I have found that Plex will play EyeTV recordings just fine as well. By adding the location of EyeTV recordings to your Plex server you can then play them on the AppleTV through the Plex app. You still have the old school method of automatically exporting after the recording to iTunes and playing back your recording. The issue with both Plex and iTunes is you have to wait until the recording is finished, longer for iTunes as it has to convert to MP4 as well. I think your experience with playback will depend on the transcoding that is done on the fly and how efficient your Mac is with transcoding. EyeTV does not transcode on the fly so I think an EyeTV app would have a problem playing video. Think of EyeTV running on the Mac as s backend and the AppleTV (if it ever comes out) as a frontend. The backend would need to transcode on the fly. My ideal setup would be for EyeTV to take advantage of the HDhomerun Extend tuner that transcodes itself. This would solve playback issues on the AppleTV, minimize file sizes, make exporting files to iTunes near instantaneous and renew the partnership between EyeTV and Silicondust. The holy grail for what we want in the EyeTV app on the AppleTV must also have an interface with the TVguide, allow to setup recordings and delete shows that have been watched. I prefer that the ability to set recordings has same function as the actual EyeTV program but would be happy if it at least is as good as what can be done from the iPad EyeTV app. With all this being said I still feel that EyeTV is a pretty good DVR program. Runs well on my Mac and overall cost is extremely low. If a fee was to be charged for EyeTV 4.0 that allowed EyeTV to serve as a backend and work with Silcondust I would be okay with that.