Is this the model you are referring to that requires USB? http://www.amazon.com/Elgato-EyeTV-Satellite-Macintosh-10021040/dp/B003MVYTBU
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Is this the model you are referring to that requires USB? http://www.amazon.com/Elgato-EyeTV-Satellite-Macintosh-10021040/dp/B003MVYTBU
I have a couple of the older HDHomeRun DUAL boxes and often have 3 or 4 shows being recorded at the same time. You can read about my setup in the DVR Project category of my blog.
What are you using to record from the HD Home Run? I previously did the same using EyeTV scheduling recordings via the built in TV guide (w/ yearly subscription) offered by Elgato, but as of today Jan 8, 2015 my TV Guide subscription ran out and Elgato's web site states that the TV Guide subscription is no longer available in my country... The United States.
Not sure what you mean. I just went to the Elgato website and placed the TV Guide subscription in my cart. I did not follow through, but it looks like there should be no problem making the purchase.
https://www.elgato.com/en/online-store
Anyway, I have been living without the subscription for several weeks. I have it setup to pull a crude 1-day schedule for each channel over the airwaves. Not as nice, but it works.
I had the same problem today so I emailed the excellent Elgato support people and got the following instructions, which worked. (I don't know why their site can't "guess" my location correctly, since I know my IP address is in Canada.)
Our website has many country settings working behind the scenes. It tries to guess your country by examining your IP address, along with other data.
It seems that another country like the United Kingdom may have been selected by mistake. You can fix this by going to a product page, selecting the proper country, then going to the Elgato Online Store to purchase TV Guide.
Visit this page:
https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/game-capture-hd60
Select the "Buy Now" choice, and choose the small "Change Location" button.
Choose "United States" ["Canada" works too]
Now, close that small window, and visit the Elgato Online Store again to find TV Guide:
https://www.elgato.com/en/online-store
It seems that another country like the United Kingdom may have been selected by mistake. You can fix this by going to a product page, selecting the proper country, then going to the Elgato Online Store to purchase TV Guide.
Visit this page:
https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/game-capture-hd60
Select the "Buy Now" choice, and choose the small "Change Location" button.
Choose "United States" ["Canada" works too]
Now, close that small window, and visit the Elgato Online Store again to find TV Guide:
https://www.elgato.com/en/online-store
I also had to email Elgato. They gave me a relatively quick reply. It was the same reply that you received. I suspected that the site was seeing a regional code somewhere that was incorrect had no idea how to fix it. I never would have suspected that guessing my country by looking at my IP would have give that sort of result. I would have never thought of putting a bogus item in my cart to fix the country code. It worked though and all is well. If anyone else suffers this issue, you may need to go into EyeTV preferences/Guide and under Program Guide select "Update Now", of course this is after you have renewed the TV Guide subscription with EyeTV.
I was really stressing as we're ramping up to cut the cord, I assured my wife that I will be able to record her precision soapy vampire/love shows on the Mac to play back to the Roku. Then this happened and I remembered that Elgato stated that they no longer we selling or supporting TV products in the US. So I am glad to see that they are still supporting the EyeTV and the TV guide. The real question??? Will this be available next year???
[doublepost=1452346884][/doublepost]Do you guys no or have any good ways to auto export the ".eytv" package to and .mv4 so that Plex will see them properly. I may re-post this to a new thread but just curious if you guys had anything good on this subject.
Not sure what Plex needs (tried it briefly but couldn't figure it out) but when you schedule EyeTV to record a show you can set it to auto-export to "iPad" or "Apple TV" when the recording is complete. In Preferences > General > Export you can define what resolution you want that to be. This will result in an .m4v file saved in the Movies folder in your home directory. (I haven't figured out how to change the location, but I'm guessing Plex will be fine with that.)
Also, I'm not sure if this is helpful, but if you do a "Show package contents" on an .eyetv file you'll see the full-quality mp4 recording in there (with a meaningless filename). Perhaps there's a way to script getting that out to Plex. The advantage there is that it could be pretty instantaneous since there's no transcoding needed (but you're stuck with the full file size of the original recording). However, I don't know if you'd be able to preserve the metadata tags that way.
And finally, EyeTV is scriptable and I remember seeing some sample scripts somewhere on Elgato's website. Maybe there's one that'll do what you want or someone here knows how to script it.
Hope this helps.