Can Roku be used to upgrade? I usually use Android phone.
No you cannot upgrade from the Roku. Android clients, iOS devices, and the computer will let you.
And you can update from Fire TVâŚwhich is really an android client, but different 
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And FireTV. Thatâs what I thought.
And itâs looking like July is turning to September.
Sigh.
Câest la vie.
Your âsighâ would be larger if they released a firmware update and the Tablo couldnât detect your USB HDD (this was a major bug that needed fixing).
And if I gave my superiors ETAâs so far out in left field like the Tablo team then heads would roll.
The âwe need to fix one more bugâ line only works for so long and is starting to wear incredibly thin.
From what they said, itâs only a subset of disk and hopefully it makes it out prior to the end of August. What would everyone have said if I didnât find the error I did? I was in the second group and shouldnât have found any errors. Itâs fixed now, but what IF I didnât find it? Would other beta testers have found the problem? 7-1 was on 7-1, 7-2, and 7-3. Each are different stations but they were all the same with different schedules. It was fixed within a week of me reporting it. It wasnât just channel 7. It was ALL of the stations and the -2, -3, -4 were the same as the -1.
I, for one, as a software engineer and a manager of same, prefer to release software without critical failures over releasing on some self-imposed schedule, even if that schedule is transparent and known to my customers. Iâm a âbleeding edgeâ user and have tried every OTA recording box thatâs out there looking for âthe oneâ that got it right. So far, Tablo is as close as any has come in my book. You have a product that works and is continuing to work for you right this moment. Let the team get their code right and deliver it to us when theyâre good and ready. Blizzard is known for the same perfectionist attitude and they define any game category they enter, even if they show up years late.
Sincerely, from me, to all the beta testers and engineers on the @TabloTV team, thank you, and keep up the good work.
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Sell your Tablo then. Cut your losses now. Get the substitute DVR that can do what the Tablo does.
If only I had a quarter for every time the zealots started the âsell itâ mantra as soon as somebody says something critical.
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Tablo really offers an excellent product with very accesible and helpful service. A firmware update done with thorough testing is worth waiting for, and hopefully spares the users and customer service a lot of future issues and complaints.
For those software engineers and team / project leaders among us, I very highly recommend a browse or a read of âThe Mythical Man-Monthâ, an all-time classic on building software. I read it first many years ago but it is totally relevant to this very day. I have given this book to dozens of my team members over the years, and they ultimately did the same as they became project leaders. Check it out! Great human side of making software work.
Larry
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I read The Mythical Man Month years ago and itâs a relevant today as it was when it was first published. Those of whoâve worked in new product development understand what the Tablo managers, engineers and support staff go through to put out a new release, and weâre rooting for them to get it right. Iâve held up new product releases when I had to over the years because I valued getting it right over getting it fast. Tablo is correct in not releasing the new firmware until itâs ready.
Ordered the aniversery edition last night
I am in the market for a second Tablo.
It must be nice to live in such a black and white world where everything you own is either perfect with zero flaws or gets sold. Sorry but thatâs not the way things work in the real world. I didnât say I want to sell it but the simple fact is that they have over promised and under delivered on their release dates so bad that itâs laughable and your inability to see that yet defend them so zealously is laughable.
So basically youâre happy with how the product works and just love to complain - got it.
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Couldnât be further from the truth, go back and read what I wrote. What I said is that the real world isnât black and white.
No Iâm not 100% happy with the product (although itâs fairly obvious from your activity on the forum that youâre head over heals in love with EVERYTHING about it, the company and how it handles itâs updates) but also not 0% happy with it either. There are a lot of numbers between 0 and 100 on that scale and Iâm somewhere in the middle but not unhappy enough just yet to sell it.
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In my experience, thereâs just isnât a OTA DVR out there thatâs perfect. Tablo is as close as Iâve seen, and theyâre obviously working hard to make it better. I own 6 OTA DVRs, to give you an idea. I tried Tivo, SimpleTV, and 2 other âoff brandâ versions. Tivo is nice, but you have to buy into the âTivo ecosystemâ 100% and that means long-term (relatively high) monthly fees. SimpleTV is probably Tabloâs closest competitor, and theyâre development timelines and support are a joke. Theyâre years behind Tablo in capability, and they started earlier. The others fall 100% short of a ârealâ consumer product.
I understand what youâre saying about Tablo not being perfect, and there are still a few pain points for me, but based on what Iâve seen of the development and support they offer, and the active user community, I have faith that this product will only improve over time, as opposed to every other box I have, which are all stagnant.
As a developer myself, I accept and desire constructive critical feedback, but âthey still havenât delivered an updateâ isnât really constructive. Weâre now arguing over release cycle timing, and have been for nearly two pages. If you want to post about bugs or feature requests or issues you see with the product that youâd like changed over time, Iâm sure the reception would be different. Tablo has obviously taken the approach of âweâll release when we feel itâs ready and not a day beforeâ. Itâs a line in the sand. Time to accept that part of how they operate and move alongâŚ
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I totally agree with everything youâre saying and my only gripe is that if their policy is to ârelease it when itâs readyâ then donât set a line in the sand. They set the line, we didnât. Right up until the last week of July Tablo was saying the update should be out in July and itâs now almost September.
If I had to rely on Tablo to watch the shows I like then it would have been sold ages ago. The reality is however that the only thing I record with it is the highly local news because I CANâT rely on it for anything else. For everything else I use Sickbeard. Once it gets to the point where it works well enough then I will use it more but right now I canât but am HOPING that it can in the future.
If nobody complains then things wonât change.
I hope that enough people have complained about the rollout of this update (and more specifically the ETA) that they do entirely adopt the âWeâll release it when itâs done and refuse to give a dateâ approach. Iâd much rather deal with a company that has that approach than one who gives a date and then misses it so horribly.
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