Trouble with HDHomerun

Well as a last step to my ultimate HTPC, I ordered and received the HDHomerun which I planned on using with an OTA antenna and mac mini. I was all excited to get it up and running and then the excitement quickly ended. For some reason, I can not get a consistent picture despite constant sound from the TV show. It seems as soon as I change a channel or watch a particular show for a short period of time, I will get a blue screen saying "no signal available". When I look in the options at the signal STRENGH it says 100%. It seems like the HDHomerun is dropping the signal because when I look at the signal QUALITY both tuners (0 and 1) show around 80% and then when I get the "no signal is available" error one of the tuners shows 0% while the other remains around 80%. BTW I have a completely wired connection between the HDHomerun, Airport Extreme and Mac.
Has anyone else run into this problem and have found a remedy.
Prior to setting up the HDHomerun, I was a running the same OTA antenna into a TiVo and was getting crystal clear reception with none of the above problems.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Over 500 views and not a single response? Does that mean this shouldn't be happening and maybe there is a problem with the HDHomerun?

ReggaeFire said:

Most likely the tuner quality in the HDHR is not as good as the one in the Tivo. The integrated tuner in my television only picks up about 1/2 the channels that my external tuner connected to the same antenna does. I think the only solution is to readjust the antenna to attempt to get the signal quality to improve. Obviously you should also check your connecters and splitters to make sure they're good as well.

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Do you think the HD Hybrid would be a better tuner than the HDHomerun?

I do have the HDHomerun connected to a Cat5e cable that is about 25 ft long. Could that affect the signal quality?
As stated earlier, I have absolutely no problems running the HDHomerun through my cable provider. The problem with cable though is that I don't get all of my local channels in HD like I am with the OTA antenna.

Once I get my mac mini (Christmas), I will be able to plug the HDHomerun directly into it. I would plug the HDHomerun directly into my iMac, but that computer lives in the basement and my antenna doesn't work all that great down there.
Prior, to getting the HDHomerun, I had my OTA antenna plugged into a TiVo and got perfect, crystal clear reception on all of my channels with a signal strenth averaging 90-95%.

I have gone through numerous scenarios and configurations, switching between cable and OTA with the HDHomerun. I think I have been able to pinpoint that the problem is arising from one OTA local channel in particular. I don't know if its a coincidence or not, but whenever I switch to channel 4-1, I lose the picture and the antenna signal drops to zero. I don't seem to have this problem, however with cable and the HDHomerun and also with the OTA antenna and TiVo. The Elgato technical support doesn't seem to but much help either
So this is what I was thinking and let me know if this would work. What if I bought another EyeTV (I was thinking an EyeTV One) so I could hook that up to my OTA antenna and keep the HDHomerun hooked up to my cable provider. I would think if I had both hooked up I would have the best of both worlds. I could essentially record 3 shows at once if I wanted and have access to all of my local channels in HD either through OTA or cable. What do you think?
Would I be able to "merge" the two devices (channels for OTA and cable) and access them through the mac mini?

Out of all the steps in creating a decent HTPC with a mac mini, I was thinking EyeTV with the HDHomerun or Hybrid was going to be the most straight forward and easy to set up.
This has become quite the hassle. I may just return the HDHomerun and get an EyeTV One which is only $50 on amazon right now and see if that would potentially work better. I am only having problems with one local channel OTA and I can get the channel to show up if I restart EyeTv. So for $50 it will at least be somewhat functional.