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Hello- I have continued using this method to successfully obtain schedules, the only change being I am now using a Samsung TV as a display. I haven't upgraded the EyeTV software because the new version doesn't support my HD Homerun tuner. Lately, though, I've noticed a small glitch: The computer wakes from sleep and acquires the schedule, but the following morning I notice the computer has not gone back to sleep as per instructions. This is not always the case. Sometimes the fluctuating power light shows it is properly snoozing, but most of the time it has insomnia and when I power up the TV, the computer is awake. I tried increasing the awake time a bit, and unchecking "wake computer for network access," but without result. I can't identify what is causing this sleep/wake anomaly. Another question: I started handling audio by sending output to the display by HDMI cable and using the TV's optical audio out, using an optical splitter and a digital/analog converter to send the audio to a sound bar and (analog) to the stereo receiver. This handles audio from both the computer and a streaming box which also connects to TV with HDMI that Xfinity sent me out of the blue. One small glitch: Whenever I have to restart for some reason (High Sierra), the outputs in the Sound panel of Sys Prefs revert to HEADPHONE and cause momentary consternation until I remember to go and reset SAMSUNG as output for system audio and alerts. Is there a workaround to make the sound settings stick?

Yes, that is new, and quite recent. Thanks for the tip re: record all button.

Silly me. "Date added" is yesterday, so it is the fresh copy I installed then, which "learned" the schedules somewhere.. This suggests the main application was not uninstalled at all. Maybe just resetting the prefs would have done the job. Some people badmouth EyeTV, but after working with it for years, I think it is a sophisticated and stable piece of software whose present owners don't understand it very well.

PS. Some things about EyeTV continue to mystify me. Despite a supposed complete uninstall, the new installation remembers the recordings that had been scheduled beforehand.

Hi- I backed up my boot drive to the clone, and then unmounted that drive, just to prevent any funny business with the uninstaller and networked installations of EyeTV. I used the EyeTV Reporter app to uninstall EyeTV. It required a restart, and to my surprise on restart, EyeTV (a new copy, apparently?) was in the Applications folder. So I didn't need to reinstall from tthe dmg I had on my desktop. The setup assistant ran, and I entered the relevant info and did a channel scan. There was some funny business where I declined to subscribe to the EyeTV guide that required me to ForceQuit ETV. On starting up again, I found the xmltv.xml file that downloaded last night in the Scripts folder and dragged that onto the EyeTV icon in applications, which loaded it. Then followed the tedious business of changing all the Channel entries to xmltv and assigning a channel from the lineup. This seems to have been quite successful, so all that remains is cleaning up by unchecking duplicated stations in Channels and creating a new program guide of favorites in the preferred order. Then I'll back up again to the clone. Thanks again for all your work on this. I keep your PDF guide handy in case I ever need to rebuild the whole setup. I haven't upgraded to the 64 bit version because it has been sorely badmouthed in other forums, and the version of High Sierra I am running is supposedly the ultima thule OS I can run on this mini anyway. Earl

Thanks! Good to hear from you. The whole setup has worked like a dream until this foulup. I am thinking of going straight to using EyeTV Helper to uninstall, installing a fresh copy, and rescanning, etc. I can back up the more important recordings in the archive, just in case they're affected by an uninstall. I can do this all on a clone of my boot drive on an external, so if it blows up in my face I can clone the boot drive again and be at worst back about where I started. I expected to just merrily boot into the clone and that EyeTV would work properly there, but it, too seems banjaxed, like a perverse kind of quantum entanglement or something. When things go haywire, they really seem to go haywire. I made sure I can find my activation key before even thinking about this. I'll post here how it goes. I have lots of time these days. I have been sick for about 20 days with something that is not serious enough to get tested for, so I myself am trying to reboot.

Hi- Earl Noe here I have been happily using the method outlined in this thread and in Wisconsin Eric's handy manual to automatically load schedules from xmltvlistings.com into EyeTV 3.6.9 (7528) without any problem. Last night I tried to manually update the EPG listings while something was recording and crashed the macmini. Now, although EyeTV retained my channel listings it will display no guide information at all, the windows are blank. I can manually load the last xmltv.xml file into EyeTV but it has no effect. EyeTV will not even display generic EPG listings. The Program Guide window and the PG favorites widow I created are stubbornly blank. Schedules retained the information on programs set to record, and I could manually schedule a recording, but absolutely zip schedules info. Anyone out there? Any suggestions?