Sleep issues with Eyetv 250`

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Sleep issues with Eyetv 250`

Anyone having luck getting the system to go to sleep running Eyetv? Under Tiger, the system would go to sleep on its own (based on the idle time I set in preferences, wake up, record, then go back to sleep). BTW I am running EyeTV 2.5.1 which is the "update" for Leopard.

Under Leopard, the ONLY way I can get the computer to sleep is to either select sleep from Apple menu or the ol' option AppleEject. Goes right to sleep and actually will wake up to record. It will then stay "up" until I manually put it back to sleep. Any attempts to just let the system "naturally sleep" involve it going to sleep and waking up immediately thereafter. System log says Eyetv woke it up. Tried removing and re-installing the Eyetv Helper application. No difference.

Anyone have a suggestion? Other than just continuing to put the system to sleep manually? 🙂

Thanks!

Message was edited by: Lear Pilot

mac Pro dual 2.66 3gb ram 4*500gb, Mac OS X (10.5), MacBook Pro 2.4ghz w/7200rpm 160gb drive

Posted on Nov 5, 2007 4:51 PM

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Answer 1

Dazman

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Nov 5, 2007 11:21 PM in response to Lear Pilot

Only thing I'd check is that you don't have any Live TV windows running in the background. This will stop your mac from going to sleep. It's a feature that I've suggested to Elgato that if your LiveTV windows is in the background, you're obviously not watching it, so close it after a while so you mac will then go to sleep.

I have another issue with Leopard in that it won't reconnect to the network (WiFi) after it wakes up, but that's another story 🙂

Daz

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Nov 5, 2007 11:40 PM in response to Lear Pilot

Every time i put my computer to sleep a few errors pop up in the console log having to do with scheduled events erased and eyetv. Do you have it checking titan TV for remote TV scheduled recordings? I would try and turn those off. Also Eltgao has a support system that you can use. It's helped me quite a lot.

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Nov 6, 2007 12:16 AM in response to Christopher Wetzel

Just checked myself and it appears that my extra drives spin down and my network connections sever. Its about to go to sleep but then it just doesn't. The console isn't showing anything, which is odd. About a minute later the drives spin back up.

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