iEye Captain - 1.0.8.3

Hi (From Developer),

I always knew that Elgato would catch up with me -- iEye Captain was mainly useful during the time EyeTV was not delivering infrared or multiple hard drive support, and now that these are both possible within EyeTV, interest in my app has really bottomed out. As a result, I can not afford the development time necessary for a full Leopard update.

Version 1.0.8.3 has been workable on Leopard for most users -- if you have bugs to report, by all means please do email them to me. I can't promise any ETA, but if I get enough requests I will try to put some time in over the summer.

Thanks for understanding,
Graham Jones,
Developer.

Hi (from developer),

I am currently working on Leopard compatibility and expect to release a free update within the next 2-3 weeks. However, I can confirm that until I release this update iEye Captain WILL NOT WORK ON MAC OS 10.5 / LEOPARD.

Thanks for your patience.

Graham Jones,
Developer.

Hi (from developer),

two PPC users have reported that they were not able to get version 1.0.7 to launch.

I am working on a fix and should have it within a couple of days.

If you have also experienced this issue (or to let me know it's working), please email me at info@vidcan.com to let me know you system details and the symptoms.

Thanks,
Graham Jones,
Developer.

I have made the tough decision that though I will continue to support and debug iEye Captain, I will be discontinuing development of new features. Recent changes in EyeTV are making it difficult to innovate the way that I used to, and because Elgato doesn't share their development schedule with me, I can spend months developing something that is obsolete the day after I introduce it.

iEye Captain's tool box, including rapid-fire screenshots, iCal, alias, and text exporting, infrared control, savable advanced searches, and other features will still be useful for quite some time, and most are unlikely to be added by Elgato anytime soon. And with the new $15 purchase price, it is more cost-effective than ever to add these features.

Thanks for understanding,
Graham Jones,
Developer.

A couple of years ago, after finally switching to digital cable, I wanted a way to have my eyeTV box change channels on my cable box. Of course this wasn't happening, so I switched to ReplayTV.

I was tired of paying for Replay service, so I went looking for something that would integrate with eyeTV and operate an IR transmitter to change the channels on my cable box.

There are many other things that iEye Captain can do, but this is all I use it for and it does an incredible job.

The one problem I've had, the developer has been very responsive about and has told me exactly where it fits into the development schedule (although he has since said that it will be in the next build instead of waiting until when he was originally going to fix it).

Granted, it's not perfect because it is beta software. It is amazing that a single developer with a day job has been able to put this kind of work into the project. Kudos!