My EyeTV iPhone App Early Review

First a quick note to those having problems getting this to work with their mac especially netgear WGR614V9 users, try a reboot of your mac.
As many have experienced, I recieved the ‘router incompatible’ message and red light, when eyetv preferences performed it’s testing. This led to 40 minutes of port forwarding but no green light. After searching the oracle that is google, i found within the comments section of various reviews a possible solution I had not thought of since my windows days, to reboot the mac. I did, and it worked. An hour later and again it didn’t work. What struck me was how disapointed I was with elgato and how unsurprised I was that they had not pulled this off. I’ve used eyetv on my mac mini for months but it’s buggy as hell and the latest releases of software don’t help. Perhaps they should hire the jaadu programmers, or maybe it’s the management that needs a kick.
I wanted to love this program, but I don’t. It just isn’t reliable. After it stopped working I rebooted my mac again, and again it started working.. For a minute.

Have I seen it stream video? Yes, but not for any length of time that would permit me to understand the genre of what I was watching.

Plus any software that is fixed by a reboot is a CF.
Update:Oct09: eyeconnect definately has a conflict with eyetv. I deleted eyeconnect from the library preferences pane and my eyetv does connect without needing to reboot the mac. Only I still get poor performance with the streaming so more tweaking to come.

Wait for the bugs to get fixed, and hope they don’t introduce any new ones