[jcee11]

I know this is OSX specific request. Anyway.

I think what is really missing in XBMC is the ability for live TV. That was the reason for me going from Xbox to HTPC to "HTMAC".

Now I have EyeTV running along with frontrow for all the other stuff (videos, music, pictures).

I would love to replace frontrow with XBMC, but I would also love a nice integration of both. Maybe as a plugin or an extra module.. Dont know.

As EyeTv is one of the most used PVR and live TV application this combination would rock!

Any thoughts on this?

[Gamester17]

if EyeTV has/had an networked API then this would be a platform-independent feature suggestion/request, see:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28918

So yes it could be possible if EyeTV supports streaming Live-TV over the network and some sort of control API.

[Aman]

if EyeTV has/had an networked API then this would be a platform-independent feature suggestion/request, see:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28918

So yes it could be possible if EyeTV supports streaming Live-TV over the network and some sort of control API.

Gamester17,

I get the idea that you think EyeTV is hardware when in reality it is software. Of course I'm probably wrong...I am an idiot most of the time. EyeTV is simply software that controls a number of hardware devices. It can reencode video and schedule recordings, but as far as I know that's about it. Anyway, the post you linked to seems to address the issues of jcee11's concerns. I just wanted to give some extra info.

Thanks,

Aman

[Gamester17]

@Aman, I know EyeTV is a software (and not a hardware). I guess you did just bother reading the post that I linked to?, if you did then you would know that it refers to the idea of controlling multiple hardware AND software 'TV-recording' backends from XBMC, (if you look at the post now you will notice that there is even a list there which lists many media center SOFTWARES, like; MythTV, Linux VDR, MediaPortal, MeediOS, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Freevo, MyTheatre, ProgDVB, HTS TVheadend, ...all which are software with similar functions to EyeTV).

[jcee11]

Ok, understood.

Does anyone has a good idea how to operate EyeTV and XBMC on the same Mac Mini then?

I was using Eyetv/Frontrow for quite a time. I would love to use the combination of Eyetv/XBMC. And a way how I can switch between the applications with the remote.
I have not found out a way to do this.

Some in this forum have discussed about replacing frontrow with XBMC but it seemed as they have run into trouble and is not very easy?!

I appreciate any hint.

(I do not want to loose forntrow too as it is so nicely tied into Itunes. As far as I know XBMC/Itunes integration does not work yet for V7+ of itunes, correct?)

[exousir]

I found this, which might be what you're looking for.

I don't have an EyeTV, just been thinking about getting one so I'm not sure how well it works.

[iMist]

I'm sure the EyeTV SDK is of interest too

[Gamester17]

Those two in combination with each other could probably be a good start (once XBMC for Mac OS X supports python scripts that is)
http://forums.elgato.com/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=1125

PyeTV could be used as a base for a frontend GUI python script for the API described in the EyeTV SDK in order to get something up-and-running relativly quick for EyeTV access/control under XBMC, (similar to the existing MythTV, MediaPortal and Dreambox/Dbox2 python scripts that are already available for XBMC, those could possibly as be be used as the base of the python GUI script).
http://code.google.com/p/pyetv/
http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmen...TV.en.html


...later a native GUI front-end as I decribed it this other post would make a nicer interface

[cjc1959au]

Hi Guys and Gurls!

Just bought a Griffin RadioSHARK so I can get AM/FM radio to the mac mini media centre I am building.

It runs a small program called RadioSHARK to make itself work and seems to work quite well.

Not knowing much about the innards of XBMC, but being a donater, I'm wondering if someone could help me understand if I will be able to run this program under XBMC? I note there is a menu option for "Programs" but I don't quite understand what that is for?

Will I be able to load RadioSHARK under that menu option?

Is that the same place that EyeTV would go for me to be able to run my USB TV Card also?

Thanks for all your help guys and gurls! I'm loving how fast OSXBMC is coming along. You still see a few of the rough edges sometimes, but mostly it appears to work properly the majority of the time.

Keep up the good work elan and all!

[Rasmus Andersen]

RadioShark working under XBMC would really be great for me as well

[elan]

There are no plans to integrate RadioSHARK or EyeTV at the moment. All my time is being spent on core functionality that's missing (e.g. Python). Once there is support for scripting and Python plug-ins, a whole new world will be opened up that could make it easier to integrate these sorts of things.

Stay tuned.

-elan

[Gamester17]

Search BEFORE you post!

if EyeTV has/had an networked API then this would be a platform-independent feature suggestion/request, see:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=28918

So yes it could be possible if EyeTV supports streaming Live-TV over the network and some sort of control API.

Same goes for RadioSHARK

[xbmchead]

I'm using the filelist in videos to show my eyetv recordings, but it also shows the .eyetvsched files; Is there a way to exclude the .eyetvsched files from the video filelist?

[tslayer]

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsett...ensions.3E

[xbmchead]

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Advancedsett...ensions.3E

This won't work, because the .eyetv and .eyetv "files" are really folders and thus the file extensions don't work on them.