How to get rid of quirks when using *2* EyeTV Hybrid tuners at once?

April 18, 2009 6:17 PM

How to get rid of quirks when using *2* EyeTV Hybrid tuners at once?

The Elgato website mentions that it is possible to connect multiple EyeTV Hyrbid tuners to a Mac, but that there may be quirks. I just connected the second Hybrid tuner today to the latest, greatest Mac Mini. Everything works great---except a channel change button push on the EyeTV remote or Apple remote is treated like a double push, skipping a channel.

Not all buttons on the remote appear to suffer this problem, but the channel change and volume change buttons do. The problem goes away when one of the two tuners is disconnected.

Has anybody encountered this and found a fix?---I'd rather not switch to using a iPod Touch as the remote just yet. Thanks!

posted by Napoleonic Terrier to Technology (2 answers total)

I'd personally try covering the front panel on one of the EyeTV's , so it can't see the IR from your remote. If that does it, lay a strip of black electrical tape across the front and use an x-acto knife to cut holes for the dongle and the blue light, and maybe trim the tape to the oval shape of the black front panel.
posted by Orb2069 at 8:27 AM on April 19, 2009

Response by poster: The EyeTv Hybrid tuner connects to a USB port and relies on the IR sensor on the Mini, so there's no separate IR sensor to hide.
posted by Napoleonic Terrier at 9:53 AM on April 19, 2009