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EyeTV GT-1U620160701 U6 Pocket-Sized HDTV Tuner Stick for Apple MacBook SeriesSo far I am not pleased with this eyetv U6. I am unable to auto-tune any stations. I have tried 2 antennas, one with a signal booster. Both receive over 50 stations when connected to a TV. I am in the process of attempting to get help through the support e-mail.
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However, I still like live sports, a familiar story I know. I have been looking into getting some kind of USB TV tuner, but the problem I'm running into is there doesn't seem to be anything available for Macs.
I just want a simple USB TV tuner. I don't need to broadcast throughout my house, I don't even need DVR or anything. I just want to be able to plug a USB into my Mac and watch live TV. From what I've seen the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid TV Tuner Stick seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, but it looks like it was discontinued a few years ago and the very few I have seen for sale are $250+ It seems like most of the other ones available only work for PCs. Also, what about software? Does anyone have experience with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I don't think anyone makes them anymore, but you could find older ones on eBay. The Elgato Hybrids were just re-branded Hauppage 950s.
El Gato used to have a list of supported devices on their site, but they've removed it - looking for an old cached version shows these devices as supported (this isn't a complete list, but the best I could find): Pinnacle PCTV Hybrid Pro Pinnacle DVB-T Stick Pinnacle PCTV 80e Terratec Cinergy S USB Twinhan Alpha Mac Miglia Mini TV Freecom DVB-T USB ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 Plextor ConvertX PVR TV402U I'm currently using the Pinnacle PCTV 80e which I got on eBay for $10.
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Not sure if you are still looking for answers to your query above, but just thought I'd share my experience. I've been a long time MediaPortal user, and my MP setup was on a Shuttle XPC, running Windows 7, MP v1.10.0.
I have a Hauppauge HVR-3000 PCI Hybrid tuner card installed in the XPC, and it worked fine in MP. I've also managed to install and use XBMC/Kodi as my HTPC Front End with TV-Server as the PVR backend. I also have a couple of Macs (iMacs and Macbook Pro), and installed XBMC/Kodi on the Mac and connecting to my XPC PVR backend, that worked.
A little while ago, I had to spend a lot of time away from home (no direct connection to my XPC), and as such purchased an Elgato EyeTV Diversity for watching DVB-T TV on my Macbook Pro while I was away from home. That again, worked fine - it is independent from my MP setup and has got nothing to do with MP.
Recently, and only thought about it recently, I decided to try and see if I can get the EyeTV to work with MP, as I always thought Elgato products are made for Macs and they didn't have PC support. To my surprise, when I Googled this matter, I found out that Elgato do have Windows drivers for the EyeTV USB tuner sticks, which will work with Windows 7 and Windows 8. I downloaded the drivers, installed it, and got it recognised in my Windows 7 system. When I subsequently fired up TV Server configuration, I found that the EyeTV is now listed as one of the available tuners in TV Server too. I mamage to scan for channels via that tuner, and am happy to report that I managed to set it up as an additional tuner on my TV Server.
As an added bonus, because I have the EyeTV Diversity, it is effectively 2 tuners in one, and is recognised as such in TV Server. Together my the Hauppauge HVR-3000 card in the shuttle, I now have 3x independent TV tuners. I have tested it - watching a programme, recording another, and using XBMC/Kodi on my Mac to stream remotely yet another program. All works - granted my XPC is struggling to cope but I believe that is because of the prosessing power of the PC and nothing to do with TV Server.
So, if summary, whilst the product you mentioned above it slightly different, I think it could work given my experience. Hope this helps.