Mac Mini (Intel C2D) boots up 1 hour after shut down

Roughtly one hour after I shut down my Mac Mini (i.e. LED on the front is off), it boots up again with the chime and everything. This happens at every time of the day and is reproducable. I have not set any schedules (in Energy Saver) and "wake for administrator access" is off too.
I tried to narrow down the problem by disconnecting every single cable on the back. Only disconnecting the power brick helped
It's pretty annoying wen I go to bed and the Mac mini boots up just for the **** of it waking me up with a loud chime. I can barely hear it when it's running so I just keep it on for the night until that problem is solved. Any ideas?

Found something very interesting in system.log
Looks like eyeTV is the culprit. I'll contact Elgato's support and post here when I get news.
====== log: ======
Apr 16 00:32:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::CancelEvents: requested event type: wakepoweron
Apr 16 00:32:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::CancelEvents: requested app name: com.elgato.eyetv
Apr 16 00:32:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein: 0 entries in power event schedule table
Apr 16 00:32:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::ScheduleEvent: requested event type: wakepoweron
Apr 16 00:32:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::ScheduleEvent: requested app name: com.elgato.eyetv
Apr 16 00:32:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::ScheduleEvent: requested date: 04/16/08 00:33:41
Apr 16 00:32:01 macmini authexec[208]: executing /usr/bin/pmset
Apr 16 00:32:01 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein: 1 entries in power event schedule table
Apr 16 00:32:01 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: * date: 04/16/08 00:33:30
Apr 16 00:32:01 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: * appName: com.elgato.eyetv
Apr 16 00:32:01 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: * eventType: wakepoweron
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::CancelEvents: requested event type: wakepoweron
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::CancelEvents: requested app name: com.elgato.eyetv
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::CancelEvents: canceling wakepoweron - com.elgato.eyetv - 04/16/08 00:33:30
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini authexec[210]: executing /usr/bin/pmset
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein: 0 entries in power event schedule table
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::ScheduleEvent: requested event type: wakepoweron
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::ScheduleEvent: requested app name: com.elgato.eyetv
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein::ScheduleEvent: requested date: 04/16/08 01:19:03
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini authexec[212]: executing /usr/bin/pmset
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: *Wakein: 1 entries in power event schedule table
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: * date: 04/16/08 01:19:00
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: * appName: com.elgato.eyetv
Apr 16 00:35:00 macmini [0x0-0x14014].com.elgato.eyetv[118]: * eventType: wakepoweron

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