tsp1965

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  1. Hi all One of my frustrations with Geniatech is their withdrawal of the online EPG. I don't like only having one week of UK DVB guide and I hated the fact that it didn't update, so I thought I would try treating an AppleScript application to automate that. It's all working for me now so I thought I would post it in case it's of use to anyone else. Firstly I went into EyeTV4 prefs and unchecked the online EPG service to 'None'. After the obligatory EyeTV4 crash and restart, it was done. The effect of this is to turn the 'refresh' icon (arrows in a circle) in the bottom right of the EPG window from refreshing the online guide to refreshing the DVB guide. This saves having to open the pop-up menu on the gear icon. Then create an AppleScript in Script Editor, pasting in this: tell application "EyeTV" activate end tell tell application "System Events" tell process "EyeTV" keystroke "g" using command down delay 1 click (button 6 of splitter group 1 of window "EyeTV4 Programs") end tell end tell Test it using the play icon in Script Editor to check it is working for you. Then save it as an Application. You can then either run it using Calendar and creating a recurring event that runs the application or run it using Lingon (which is what I did). It fails to run the first time, prompting you to add the application to approved apps in the Accessibility section of the privacy control panel, but thereafter should auto-update happily. Hope this helps somebody! Tim
  2. So EyeTV 4 is here at last and on the whole is OK, whilst almost nowhere being as polished as its predecessor. But there's no dedicated forum. And no Bug Report forum. So I have been putting in support requests when I spot a bug to which I have had......no response whatsoever. In the vain hope that someone from Geniatech is interested, here are the bugs I have found so far..... 1. The edit facility doesn't work properly. The cut into chunks and then shorten each chunk idea is not very intuitive and is slower than the double triangle system in EyeTV 3, but that's just an irritation not a bug. It is quite hard to get the red cursor to go to the section you want to cut. What is really serious is that if I shorten a recording and then select 'save clip as recording' it crashes instantly. Every recording is the same. And if you try to edit an audio only recording, say from the radio, it crashes instantly, before you have even made cuts. Making edits and them compacting does work, it is saving a chunk as its own recording which doesn't. 2. Every time the app restarts you get a live tv window, no matter how the preferences are set. This is an old bug from EyeTV 3 from the Elgato days which is now back in the new version. 3. The recordings window doesn't refresh when a new recording starts or finishes. You have to click the TV guide or channel list and then go back to the recordings window before you can see whether something is actually recording or not. Given that it doesn't always initialise and start, this is an irritating omission - it is handy to be able to see the new recording appear in the recordings and the seconds recorded indicator start to count up. In order to see the seconds count increase with a recording which has just started, you have to click on another main window icon and then back to the recordings window. 4. The Episode information in the recordings list doesn't show like it used to. So all examples of the same show appear to be the same, you can't see at a glance whether you've got the latest one or not. Not the end of the world, but it's annoying and unnecessary reduction in usability. I'm sure other people have found other problems. If anyone from Geniatech is seeing this, how about actually giving users a way to work with you to sort the inevitable early glitches out quicker?
  3. So EyeTV 4 is here at last and on the whole is OK, whilst almost nowhere being as polished as its predecessor. But there's no dedicated forum. And no Bug Report forum. So I have been putting in support requests when I spot a bug to which I have had......no response whatsoever. In the vain hope that someone from Geniatech is interested, here are the bugs I have found so far..... 1. The edit facility doesn't work properly. The cut into chunks and then shorten each chunk idea is not very intuitive and is slower than the double triangle system in EyeTV 3, but that's just an irritation not a bug. It is quite hard to get the red cursor to go to the section you want to cut. What is really serious is that if I shorten a recording and then select 'save clip as recording' it crashes instantly. Every recording is the same. And if you try to edit an audio only recording, say from the radio, it crashes instantly, before you have even made cuts. Making edits and them compacting does work, it is saving a chunk as its own recording which doesn't. 2. Every time the app restarts you get a live tv window, no matter how the preferences are set. This is an old bug from EyeTV 3 from the Elgato days which is now back in the new version. 3. The recordings window doesn't refresh when a new recording starts or finishes. You have to click the TV guide or channel list and then go back to the recordings window before you can see whether something is actually recording or not. Given that it doesn't always initialise and start, this is an irritating omission - it is handy to be able to see the new recording appear in the recordings and the seconds recorded indicator start to count up. In order to see the seconds count increase with a recording which has just started, you have to click on another main window icon and then back to the recordings window. 4. The Episode information in the recordings list doesn't show like it used to. So all examples of the same show appear to be the same, you can't see at a glance whether you've got the latest one or not. Not the end of the world, but it's annoying and unnecessary reduction in usability. I'm sure other people have found other problems. If anyone from Geniatech is seeing this, how about actually giving users a way to work with you to sort the inevitable early glitches out quicker?