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ELGATO EYETV HD PROBLEMS FULL
ELGATO EYETV HD PROBLEMS SOFTWARE

I’ve done pictures of the settings for the relevant transponders: don’t worry if you can’t change all the settings to match – ‘auto’ should work fine. Now all you have to do is add in the correct frequency, polarisation and symbol rate settings for each transponder.

Select “Manually Add Channel” from the Actions button in the toolbar.

Right-click in the channel list and select “Manually Add Channel” or.

ELGATO EYETV HD PROBLEMS SOFTWARE

Click Channels in the left-hand side of the EyeTV software.Secondly, bad weather and a poor signal can also stop auto-tune from working, so bear that in mind.īut if auto-tune doesn’t pick up particular channels, even if they are broadcasting, you’re getting a good signal, you’ve selected the Astra satellite and the weather is fine, you’ll need to use the “Manually Add Channel” function to add in satellite transponders. ITV1 HD, incidentally, is ‘frequency agile’ and so may be on a different frequency every night, which means you’ll have to retune it when you do – if you have a Freesat box, you’d have to press the ‘red button’ to do this, so it’s not an EyeTV Sat-particular problem. So wait until after 7pm for BBC3 and BBC4 and say 9pm with ITV1 HD. The rest of you? As you were.įirst up, remember that some channels aren’t 24/7 and so won’t be picked up by the EyeTV Sat box unless they’re broadcasting. I suspect I might get as many as 10 or even 20 hits on this page, but I figured it might be useful to some people. Since Elgato doesn’t seem to want to publish them on its web site according to my exchanges with them – and since MacFormat simply won’t have the space to print all this – after the jump, all the settings an EyeTV Sat owner might need to get his or her box working properly. Elgato swear this shouldn’t be a problem, but it was.įortunately, after a bit of liaising with Elgato over the settings, I was able to get all the channels. However, one of the issues I had was actually tuning it to receive all the Freesat channels, since the auto-tune failed to pick up big chunks of them (including Channel 4, More4, E4, Film4, BBC3, BBC4, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 as well as their time-shifted siblings).

ELGATO EYETV HD PROBLEMS FULL

The full review is going to be in MacFormat issue 212, so you’ll have to wait until then for my full review of it.

Have a satellite dish and a spare lead from it somewhere.

This is a nifty little gadget that lets you get Freesat on your Mac, including BBC HD in full high def quality, provided you For a big chunk of this week, I’ve been fighting to the death with an Elgato EyeTV Sat box.