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    On 5/18/2021 at 1:55 PM, MZB said:

    I second those thanks -- mc2xml v1.7.2 did the trick for me too on Sierra.

    Anyone know if it works with High Sierra?  I'm using a 2011 Mac Mini so High Sierra is the end of the line, but I've been afraid to update past Sierra now that everything is working.

    And looking back, three years ago I tried High Sierra 10.13 and EyeTV3 3.6.9 (7520) on my Mac mini (Mid 2010), the up and down arrows on the remote stopped functioning, and any time I selected the on-screen guide, EyeTV3 crashed, so I ended up reverting to OS Sierra. (Newer versions of EyeTv don't support my Silicon Dust Tuner.)

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    7 hours ago, MZB said:

    I second those thanks -- mc2xml v1.7.2 did the trick for me too on Sierra.

    Anyone know if it works with High Sierra?  I'm using a 2011 Mac Mini so High Sierra is the end of the line, but I've been afraid to update past Sierra now that everything is working.

    Also using with OS 10.12.6 Sierra on a 2011 Mac Mini, and since it's working well, I haven't tried High Sierra

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    8 minutes ago, WisconsinEric said:

    If you decide you don't want to fuss any more with the hack, you could switch to using xmltvlistings.com. I posted a step-by-step guide to using this service, which uses an API posted by the service itself. It costs a few bucks less, renews automatically every year if you want, and has worked flawlessly for me since I switched 19 months ago. You can find the guide by scrolling back through this very long thread. Since I haven't used schedulesdirect, I'm afraid I can't help you with your problem otherwise, sorry.

    Did xmltvlisitings add episode numbers? With your directions, xmltvlisitings was easy to set up, but not having the episode numbers made the guide much less useful.

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    34 minutes ago, eyetvuser said:

    Hi,

    I am on OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitain), running eyeTV v3.6.9 (7520) with mc2xml (file size 1023832 which i think is v1.6)

    ...

    Everything working well until Oct 1, 2020, when mc2xml stopped working.  i.e. mc2xml at shell prompt returns to shell prompt in <1 second with no error message, indeed no output of any kind with any combination of command line options.   I've tried a bunch of stuff to try to figure out why it stopped working... but no luck.  I've confirmed my SchedulesDirect account is still working.

    Anyone else had this silent failure of mc2xml as of Oct 1, 2020?

    Thanks for sharing your issue. I am experiencing an identical failure on a mac mini running macOS 10.12.6 Sierra (and eyeTV3.6.9 (7520)). I have made no changes to my configuration for quite some time, so I am completely baffled as to the cause. My plan for later today is to do some troubleshooting to figure out more and will update if I figure out anything.

    If we can get the APIs for SchedulesDirect and eyeTV, my neighbor is a software developer and says that programming a JSON grab in python would be easy to do (for him).

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    I submitted the following report:

    I just upgraded EyeTV3 to 3.6.9 (7520) and my Mac mini (Mid 2010) to mac OS High Sierra 10.13, and the up and down arrows on the remote stopped functioning and any time I select the on-screen guide, EyeTV3 crashes. Reading your support form, these failures appears to be a common problem and nothing unique to my system or configuration. (https://eyetvforum.com/index.php?/topic/2024-eyetv-369-on-high-sierra-crashing/) Do you have a new EyeTV3 build in work to address these two issues, and if so, when is it expected to be released?

    And received the following support:

    The problem on your apple tv remote is because the Apple change something and we can not control it.
    As for your problem on crash, please try to use the EyeTV Reporter software from your support webpage to deinstall the EyeTV software. After installing the EyeTV version 3.6.9 (7520) and a clean setup of the settings , then please check your problem again:
    https://www.geniatech.eu/eyetv/faq/wie-nutze-ich-das-eyetv-reporter-dienstprogramm/
    https://www.geniatech.eu/eyetv/software/
    And please back up the data you need before you use the reporter tool.

    After the deinstall and reboot, I installed Kodi, and the up/down buttons on the remote worked fine to navigate the Kodi menu. (Per the Kodi forums, High Sierra remapped the up/down arrows on the remote to control volume, but their open source programmers were able to re-map them to the on-screen guide.) I then did a clean install of EyeTV3, but the remote up/down arrows still wouldn't work with the EyeTV menu, and selecting EPG still caused the program to crash.

    Using Time Machine, I downgraded to OS 10.12 Sierra, and the remote is working properly again.

    I hope my Mac mini doesn't die, because it appears that EyeTV3 isn't usable on a Mac mini with High Sierra and Geniatech is either unwilling or lacks the technical ability to upgrade their software to work with 10.13 High Sierra.