This morning all my live TV channels are gone
I did a scan and they are still accessible but Tablo decided I didn’t need them anymore and removed them. Of course all the Tablo channels were still in the guide. Did a scan, unselected all the same channels. Checked my previous favorite channels were still defined.
These types of problems make users frustrated with Tablo. I can’t even fathom how this could have happened but I suspect it was a Tablo glitch.
No my channels are working like normal. I watched the news this morning.
I had an issue a day or two ago when I went to remove some new FAST channels. I notified support and they recommended I do the normal things, reboot, reset, etc., even changing my ZIP Code (which I did not do). I tried to remove these 5 channels over and over but to no avail. I waited a day and the channels I tried to remove suddenly showed to be removed and everything now looks normal.
Go figure.
I had something like this happen to me best thing that I did was a quick reboot just tap the button at the bottom of the Tablo and do another channel search and it should work.
A couple of days ago tablo gifted me some new FAST channels. No scan was done. They garbaged up my live TV list with 2 new channels. I had to rescan and deselect twice to get them to go away.
Yesterday no OTA or FAST channel turned. Just the spinning wheel of death. I had to rescan it again before it all started working. The fun is never ending.
I don’t know why, but I often find that I have to select or deselect channels and save twice before it sticks. Just FYI, to get rid of newly added FAST channels, You DO NOT need to rescan (new FAST channels magically appear without a scan), you can select and deselect channels from your last scan. I find that to be less disruptive.
I still have bad memories of scanning for channels from my early tablo days, so I rarely do it. Even if it is not too scary nowadays, when I’m just scanning the dozen or so channels I use; not all the channels, which I did as a novice user. I am just a few miles from the antenna farm, have effective indoor antennas, good reception, no reason to scan, if it ain’t broke…
Kind of silly to offer so many channels when the system breaks down under the strain.
I also get rid of new fast channels by just deleting them from the list and then saving the list. The guide updates itself overnight.
Luckily I have had no issues with the latest updates. Using roku ultra.
Hi KGBnut,
Can you reproduce this consistently? If so, we’d like to capture some logs right after you’ve done so.
The new Tablo is just the biggest POS I’ve ever purchased, and I bought a lot of junk over the years. Buggy, unresponsive, glitches up the wazoo. Today, even my legacy Tablos were reporting ‘no tuners available’ and there was NOTHING recording or being used by anyone else.
I hate to do it with having antennas and all, but I’m going to look into a streaming service and ditch this piece of crap.
Have you contacted customer service?
We solely use the Tablo to watch and record shows on the local channels. We can’t live without streaming services. We also have Philo. The wifey needs to watch her 90 Day Fiance and Love after Lock up!
I haven’t had to make changes to my channels in a while. Should I see the issue again I will let you know so you can pull logs.
I won’t pretend that my Tablo has been trouble-free, but for the most part, it works very well. I have pretty much stopped fiddling with it. I just watch the live programming and recordings that I like and better than 95% of the time, it just works. I don’t give it a second thought.
I don’t doubt that you are genuinely having problems, but I would bet that they are solvable.
Same here. They’re gone and I cant see any way to find them.
Ugh that is so frustrating I have had similar things happen with Tablo and I totally get how annoying it is. It definitely sounds like a glitch, especially if your channels showed up in the scan but didn’t reappear in the guide. Sometimes a full rescan followed by a reboot can help force things to sync correctly, but honestly, these kinds of random issues really shake confidence in the system. Hopefully Tablo rolls out a fix soon to prevent this from happening again. You’re not alone!
I shut off the tablo antenna amplifier today and the locals reappeared. Either tablo changed something last night or they had previously enabled the internal amplifier by default which caused a conflict with my existing preamp.
I have 2 high end Televes antennas on my roof that have built in amplifiers. They work excelent. When I got my 4th gen I left the amplifier on thinking every bit would help. That went on until about 2 weeks ago. One channel that used to be very strong was failing a lot of recordings. Even during this past winter. Well like I said about 2 weeks ago I turned the Tablo amp off and to my surprise we have very few failed recordings ever since. Lesson learned. Too much signal going into the Tablo tuners.
I understand anomalies happen, but to me, unexplained ongoing failed recordings is unacceptable.
To me, even explained ongoing failed recordings is unacceptable.
I get zero stress from those failed recordings. I live in an area of tons of trees and hills between me and the towers, 50 miles south and 46 miles north. When the weather/atmosphere is messing with the south signals, I know there is an equivalent north channel that will work fine (and vise versa). I allow duplicates so we pretty much always get a good recording to watch. And many times we get multiple recordings of the same to pick from. It’s all good for us. 