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To give another update: I had now ordered a new EyeTV T2 hybrid stick, and with this newer hardware, everything works fine now on my M1 MBA. So I suppose that both of the 2008 sticks which I have available here (despite the different starting figures of their serial numbers) are probably too old to be supported. Interestingly, both of them still work fine with EyeTV 4 on Intel – but none of them on the M1. This made a 120 Euro upgrade necessary, but now I think I'm prepared to switch my iMac to a M1 successor whenever this will become available. Again many thanks to Fred for your efforts to help me!

Hi Fred, thanks so much for your efforts to help! Just to give a feedback: Unfortunately, none of these ideas solved the problem so far. I even installed a clean Big Sur on an external SSD and made a fresh install of EyeTV 4 there. Actually no other software on the system than these – same result. Now I tried a couple of different cables and adaptors (I do have to adapt the USB-A plug of the stick to the USB-C port of the MBA M1 which I use for the testing) – also no difference. A hub was never involved. But maybe I should actually try one with an external power adaptor, just in order to try to provide more current to the stick?! I'll keep on experimenting... 😉 BTW I have to admit this all is only preparation or experimental. Currently I still use an EyeTV 610 on a 2015 Intel 21.5" iMac, which works like a charm. But I'm heavily thinking about replacing this iMac with the supposed 24" M1 model, whenever it may appear. But on the iMac I would not want to miss TV reception. It seems already clear that the Firewire-based EyeTV 610 does not work on M1 (even with adapting TB3->TB2->Firewire), but I was hoping that the USB hybrid stick would...

Hi Fred, thanks for this hint too! Unfortunately it did not help me any further – I now do see the channel list in EyeTV 4, but whenever the software tries to access the tuner, it issues a "please wait a moment" message and that's it. I have left this alone for hours, but it stops at this point. My assumption is that there is some piece of driver software or something similar missing which is not translated by Rosetta or not installed at all on Big Sur. On the other hand, I am then wondering why you and a couple of other people succeeded in making this work on M1 hardware. When I did an install of EyeTV 4 on Big Sur on the M1 mac, it basically only copied and translated (via Rosetta) the EyeTV 4 app. There were no additional installations, requests for permissions etc. Is this the expected behavior or is just something missing?

@MiaSanMia.MUC: Thanks a lot for the information! @Geniatech: Could you perhaps clarify? Right now, I have even two Eye TV Hybrid Sticks (Model EU 2008) available. The S/N of the first one starts with 090 as in MiaSanMia's screenshot, the other one with 110. Both work fine with EyeTV 4 on Intel, but I did not succeed to activate any of them using EyeTV 4 on an M1 mac.

May I ask what TV hardware you guys are using? I have just tried installing my old EyeTV Hybrid stick (for DVB-C reception) on an M1 Macbook Air, and EyeTV 4 repeatedly stalls during channel search.