This error often appears when you can’t write files to the tempdirectory, if your run the program with the -help argument it should show you what the defaults are and you may need to change it.
@mavsfan815 , Tablo Ripper is a completely different program (designed I think with a gui in mind) this software was designed with linux as the target to be run in the background of a server (although it works on linux, osx, and windows). So possibly a different set of users / goals.
Tablo2go was developed to provide a fully functional way of downloading the files, as well as providing code so that other people could embed similiar functionality into their programs.
It would be great though if this feature were built within the Tablo interface and be platform independent. Have it be able to cut commercials (this is a challenge) save the show in a supportable format like mp4 and then display the link to download from the interface.
I don’t believe the tablo has the processing power to cut commercials, It saves videos as a series of individual files (which is nice because with overlapping shows the overlap needs only to be recorded once), but I don’t think it has any ability to further cut those files.
The ability to download a video directly from the Tablo would be nice, but for those of us who want a bit of automation we are going to continue to need external scripts (I download videos automatically and watch everything via Plex).
Now if only @tablotv would bring multichannel audio…
I also have a problem since 2.2.8. The following is kind of a subset of what I am seeing now. As you can see, 26 are new, but 25 are duplicates ( I don’t believe this ). It says that 1 video is queued, but then never downloads it.
[kkoceski@E4300_XFCE TabloTV-SD-500GB-TS]$ python2 ./tablo2go-2.0.55.py -tablo:192.168.0.101 -mp4:False -tempdir:./tmp
[Dec 1 12:00:20 2015] - Starting TabloToGo Version 2.0.55
[Dec 1 12:00:20 2015] - Loading download history
[Dec 1 12:00:20 2015] - 4345 shows and movies have already been downloaded
[Dec 1 12:00:20 2015] [192.168.0.101] - Found Tablo named Manually Entered
[Dec 1 12:00:20 2015] [192.168.0.101] - Loading meta-data for 523 recordings
[Dec 1 12:00:39 2015] [192.168.0.101] - 26 new TV, 0 movies, and 0 sports
[Dec 1 12:00:39 2015] [192.168.0.101] - 25 matching videos are duplicative
[Dec 1 12:00:39 2015] [192.168.0.101] - 1 matching videos have been queued
[kkoceski@E4300_XFCE TabloTV-SD-500GB-TS]$
Not sure if you’ll find this helpful, but certain metadata values have “moved” in the JSON Tablo response as of version 2.2.8. That caused some issues with TabloRipper (which have now been resolved). But it could be the cause of your issues too.
I created a new folder and copied tablotogo into it. I started it up at lunch, and it looks like it is going to download the whole drive to the new folder. So, I’ll preface this by acknowledging that I don’t know what I’m talking about, but it seems that it’s a case of an incompatibility between pre-2.2.8 and 2.2.8 concerning the .history file ???
I found my problem went away the next day. Never mind.
One thing I am curious about is that some recordings reappeared, but I can’t download them with any of the export programs.
EDIT - Yesterday I had major problems trying to download programs on any exporter. SurLaTablo seemed to work, but I only got a .ts file that I can’t do anything with.
Thanks for taking a look this weekend. I really appreciate TabloToGo and use it several times per week.
FYI only (in case it helps diagnose) - I can report the exact same problem here (TabloToGo 2.0.56) since the 2.2.8 firmware update. It seems to have lost the ability to see the recording IDs. For example:
EP010146820126 Murdoch Mysteries - S09E07 - Summer of 75
is now just
. Murdoch Mysteries - S09E07 - Summer of 75
I can’t download new shows from the Tablo. Log sample:
[Dec 1 21:04:38 2015] - Starting TabloToGo Version 2.0.56
[Dec 1 21:04:38 2015] - Loading download history
[Dec 1 21:04:38 2015] - 363 shows and movies have already been downloaded
[Dec 1 21:04:38 2015] [192.168.2.11] - Found Tablo named Manually Entered
[Dec 1 21:04:38 2015] [192.168.2.11] - Loading meta-data for 164 recordings
[Dec 1 21:04:45 2015] [192.168.2.11] - No videos have been queued
Thanks, thats helpful, I look through the metadata and adjust the script. I have this software running as part of an automatic (cron) job on my system and would have never noticed that it wasnt working. (I still use my OTA TiVos as my primary recorders until the Tablo can handle multi-channel audio - hint hint / beg beg @TabloTV )