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Elgato Systems
EyeConnect
User’s Guide
© 2005
Elgato Systems
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USA
support@elgato.com
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Installation
Welcome to EyeConnect 3
EyeConnect System Requirements 3
Installing the EyeConnect Software 4
Using EyeConnect
EyeConnect Product Activation 4
Start and Stop EyeConnect 4
EyeConnect and Multiple Users 5
Configuring Device Access 5
Add Other Shared Content 6
Working with Plug-ins 8
Troubleshooting
Solving Common Problems 10
Downloading Updates 11
Getting Help 11
Software License Agreement 12
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Chapter 1 · Installation
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Welcome to EyeConnect!
Thank you for purchasing EyeConnect. This guide shows you how to
transmit EyeTV recordings, movies, music and pictures from your Macintosh to a UPnP™-AV Media player using EyeConnect*. It covers installing and configuring the EyeConnect software, and includes instructions
for using its most common features.
EyeConnect System Requirements
EyeConnect requires the following minimum system configuration:
• Macintosh Computer with a 500 MHz or faster PowerPC® G4 or G5
processor
• Mac OS X v10.3.8 (or newer) and 10.4 (or newer), with all software
and security updates installed
• Wired or wireless (802.11g) network connection between your
UPnP™-AV media player and your Mac (for further informationplease see the documentation that came with your UPnP™-AV
media player)
• 20 MB available disk space
• iPhoto 2 (or newer) for photo playback and iTunes 4 (or newer) for
music playback recommended
• EyeTV 1.7.1 or newer for playback of EyeTV recordings
* Please check the documentation that came with your UPnP™ AV
device for a list of supported file types.
Installation
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Installing the EyeConnect Software
Insert the EyeConnect CD in your CD or DVD drive. Start the installation process
and follow the onscreen instructions:
• Double-click the EyeConnect Installer.
• Type the administrator name and password when you are prompted
and press return.
• Click Install.
• Wait for the installer to finish, then click Quit.
After the installer has quit, the EyeConnect system preference opens. After a
short while you should see your UPnP AV devices on the network.
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Using EyeConnectChapter 2
Chapter 2 ·Using EyeConnect
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EyeConnect Product Activation
EyeConnect requires an activation code, otherwise it will stop working after a
trial period of 30 days. To acquire an activation code, go to Elgato’s web site at
http://www.elgato.com and navigate to the online store.
After you have received your activation code, open the EyeConnect preference
pane, click Info, then click Activate.
Type in your personal information and the activation code. Click Activate to
finish the activation process.
Start and Stop EyeConnect
To launch EyeConnect open the System Preferences from the Apple menu.
Open the EyeConnect preference pane, select the Start/Stop pane, and click
Start. Type the administrator name and password when you are prompted and
press Return.
EyeConnect allows devices on the network to browse and play back EyeTV recordings, videos, music (including your iTunes Library), and photos (including
your iPhoto Archive) stored in all user accounts.
Using EyeConnect
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EyeConnect and Multiple Users
By default, EyeConnect shares all content in all user accounts. You can browse
content by computer, category and user. You may wish to configure EyeConnect
to block all content from a specific user, or just prevent specific content from an
individual user from being displayed on your television.
Follow these steps to block access to all content from a specific user:
1. Log in to the user’s OS X account.
2. Open EyeConnect and click the Start/Stop pane. Stop EyeConnect if
it is running.
3. Click the Content pane. Uncheck the Share my content checkbox.
Follow these steps if you’d like to block access to specific content categories
(such as an iTunes library) from an individual user account:
1. Log in to the user’s OS X account.
2. Open EyeConnect and click the Start/Stop pane. Stop EyeConnect if
it is running.
3. Click the Content pane. Click the category, in this case the Audio
category, marked with an iTunes appliciation icon.
4. Click Remove (-).
5. Click the Start/Stop pane. Start EyeConnect.
Configuring Device Access
You can enable and disable the ability of devices to access content on your
computer. Click the Start/Stop pane. The Devices field lists the media players
that are connected to the network. Click Enable to select and deselect it.
In the Access menu below the Devices field you can select how EyeConnect
behaves when a new device connects to the network. Select Enable New
Devices to always allow access to your content. Select Disable New Devices
if you want to decide later if a new device is allowed to connect to your computer.
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Add Other Shared Content
EyeConnect can also share video, audio and pictures that are not stored in your
EyeTV archive, iTunes library and iPhoto archive. Follow these steps to make
files and folders available for playback:
1. Open EyeConnect. If some settings are grey, then click the lock button, type
the administrator name and password when you are prompted, and press the
Return key.
2. Click the Content tab.
3. Click the “Add” (+) button.
4. In the following sheet select the “Folder” plug-in from the pulldown menu and
click OK.
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5. A sheet will drop down. In the Folder menu select your home directories’
Movies, Music or Pictures folders, or choose “Other Folder…”. If you select
“Other Folder…” EyeConnect prompts you to pick the folder you want to share.
Type in the name of the shared folder, as it should appear in the EyeConnect
prefpane and on your television, and click OK.
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Working With Plug-ins
EyeConnect works with different classes of content. It uses three types of plugins that have different tasks:
• Content Services This plug-in type enables a device to display con-
tent not only as single files but in a certain structure. One example is
the iTunes content service which accesses your iTunes MP3 library
by preserving all the browsing options and playlists.
• Transcoding Services These extensions enables EyeTV to transcode
content which is not compatible with certain players from its original
format to a file type that is readable by the player.
• Support Services A support service plug-in ensures that compatible
content with unknown or incorrect MIME type information will still
be decoded or transcoded before being sent to the player.
Installed and activated plug-ins are available for all users.
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Follow these steps to extend EyeConnect’s capabilities with additional plug-ins:
1. Open EyeConnect and click the Content pane. Click Plug-Ins.
2. In the following dialog click Add (+). Select the plug-in you would
like to install. Click Install.
3. Make the plug-in active by clicking the selecting Enabled. Click
Done. The plug-in’s service will be available the next time you start
EyeConnect.
While transcoding services and support services will work in the background,
your newly installed content service will need to be configured. Click the Content pane and click Add (+). In the following sheet select the newly installed
content service.
You can also remove any plug-in by selecting Remove (-) in Step 2 above. Be
aware that removing any plug-in will remove it for all EyeConnect users. If you
want to prevent a plug-in’s content services from being visible on your media
player, the way to do this without affecting every EyeConnect user is to remove
the content service from the Content pane, which is done on a per-user basis.
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Chapter 3 · Troubleshooting
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Solving Common Problems
• Update content – After the server has been restarted the media
player may return an error if you try to access content. Use the
remote control to navigate to the server selection or login window
to log out and log in to your server before accessing content.
• Compatibility issues – Some media players’ decoding services may
not be compatible with transcoding services included in EyeConnect. If a file format that is supposed to be compatible with your
device can not be displayed correctly this may indicate such an
issue. Follow these steps to make a transcoding service inactive,
after stopping EyeConnect:
1. Open EyeConnect and click the Content pane. Click Plug-ins…
2. In the EyeConnect Plug-ins window, find and click the transcoding
service that causes the conflict.
3. In the Plug-ins pane uncheck the Enabled box.
• Network configuration – Your UPnP™ AV devices should reside
in the same subnet as the computer that runs EyeConnect. If the
Devices window in EyeConnects Start/Stop pane does not list any
devices, then the Mac OS X firewall might be active. If it is, you
need to create a new access rule that opens up port 2170, by opening the Sharing System Preference pane and selecting the Firewall
tab. Click New. In the next sheet, select Other from the Port Name
dropdown menu, type 2170 in the Port Number field, and “EyeConnect” into the Description field. Click OK, then go to the EyeConnect
preference pane and restart EyeConnect.
Troubleshooting
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Downloading Updates
Elgato is dedicated to making EyeConnect a better product. We will be releasing updates to the EyeConnect software periodically that add new features and
functionality, as well as fixing any bugs encountered. Please check the Elgato
web site often to download the latest version of EyeConnect software at:
http://www.elgato.com/support/downloads.html
Getting Help
If you are still experiencing problems after troubleshooting, you can get expert
help directly from Elgato by using our web-based Technical Support Form:
http://www.elgato.com/support/contact/
Our Support Specialists will get back to you as soon as possible.
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