IMac turns itself on during the day

I don't know what is going on. All of a sudden my iMac turns itself on in the middle of the day. It is off when I leave for work (not asleep) and on when I come home. It only seems to happen during the weekday.
I have EyeTV on my computer which can turn it on before recording a program, but I don't record anything during the day.
Is there a log file I can look at to see if I can figure out what is causing it to turn on?
Thanks!

When you go there hit the "Schedule..." button and see if it selected if you havent already done that and then id see if your permissions are messed up its unlikely but if the powermanagment systems perrmisions get messed up it can cause things like that to happen

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I then decided to delete all preferences with elgato in the name in both my Mac prefs and User prefs (make sure you have your eyeTV serial number as you'll need to enter this when you next start up eyeTV.
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Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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