Capto is a cli program for exporting your recordings from the Tablo.
This app is compiled perl.
All information including downloads can be found on the website:
Current Version: 0.4
There is a version for Linux (64bit), Linux (32bit) and macOS.
Only MP4 is supported at this time.
I am also working on a GUI version for MacOS but that is still quite a ways out.
Please report bugs, let me know what you think and keep in mind this is very beta.
I’m guessing UI release by Tuesday is out. 
That’s when I would get into the Beta testing. I’m a little Terminal challenged. But really nice to see your efforts in this regard.
Keep up the work.
I ran this 1 time, but forgot, and closed my laptop lid, sending it to sleep.
When I resumed, the program seemed to stall, so I shut down that command window.
When I try running it again, I get :
Not an ARRAY reference at script/capto.pl line 104.
Also, I see that it stuffs files into /tmp. Is there a way to change this ?
Thanks, Kurt
Do you have any series recorded or just sports and or movies?
I have figured out a way to eliminate tmp files all together. will be in next version.
Also you can try clearing your cache:
rm ~/.capto.db
And rerunning the update:
./capto -u
Sorry - I think my Tablo was down - other apps couldn’t see it either. I rebooted it, and it seems OK now, but it’s still churning…
That error you reported would definitely had been caused by your Tablo being down. I added some reporting there to say that in the future.
Version 0.2 is now available.
Changelog:
You’ll need to set your Tablo ip again: ./capto -ip address
@tgwaste - I’ll pin this to the top so folks can easily see/access it.
updated to v0.3
Changelog:
Hey @tgwaste, seriously slick tool, thanks. Question for you on a Mac OS install: I originally went through the install process in my downloads folder, now that I’ve moved Capto to it’s final home on my hard drive I can still interact via the CLI but every time I do an export command (every variation of ./capto -e *) it generates a full set of export data but instantly closes out with 0 of 0% completed.
I tried to update the location of ffmpeg via ./capto -ffmpeg ~/Dropbox/Project\ Name/Media/Tablo/ffmeg but I don’t get any sort of confirmation. I reconfirm the IP and that does show a conf. I think the issue is that I don’t know how to properly update the ffmpeg location, but something else might be screwing up the export. I moved capto/ffmpeg back to the originally-named download folder (capto.v0.3.macos) and the export process worked perfectly again.
Anyway, I’ve got a couple beers coming your way regardless, but some help would be appreciated.
My last edit was wrong… You have to specify a diff path every time. You should really keep ffmpeg and capto in the same place.
however this may work:
./capto -ffmpeg “/Users/YOU/Dropbox/Project Name/Media/Tablo/ffmeg” -e ID -f -
I do have capto/ffmpeg in the same folder: tested in the original download folder and export worked, moved the download folder and renamed to ‘Capto’, then tried a new batch of exports, no longer ran successfully.
I could go through the install process again in the new location, otherwise I’ll test specifying the ffmpeg location.
Really, really, well done. Love how you have a plex naming option.
A few questions:
I’ve got an old Pentium 4 in my network closet that’s running Plex on Ubuntu, and I’d rather download on that machine. Eventually I may replace it with a Raspberry Pi.
Thanks, keep up the good work.
I am not able to open source the project. I signed an NDA with Tablo agreeing to not release source that exposes the API elements. I realize there are others who may be doing this but I am unsure of their situation. My guess is they figured out the API without signing an NDA. Not sure why Tablo is allowing the distribution on their forums. I could be wrong though
I have updated to version 0.4 which includes a version for 32bit linux. You will have to test this. I do not plan on doing a Raspberry Pi release at the moment as I would have to dig mine out of a box in storage to even start.
This version also changes the behavior of the -ffmpeg switch. Now that switch is used to designate a custom path to ffmpeg once and store that setting so you don’t need to do it everytime. This is for @atllta.
Completely understand.
Done! It works great. Thank you so much.
Thank you @tgwaste for making that feature edit!
Unfortunately, I’m still finding a way to screw things up. I downloaded capto 0.4, unzipped into ~/Dropbox/RevProj/Capto/, then updated the IP and set the new ffmpeg location. I’m able to update the listings, see episode info, etc., but when I run an export it instantly finishes with 0% complete.
Question, should the ffmpeg path be specified as the folder or the direct path when run in terminal? E.g., /Dropbox/RevProj/Capto/ or /Dropbox/RevProj/Capto/ffmpeg?
After a couple of ffmpeg attempts, I deleted everything and ran through the install process fresh, still no luck. Lastly, tested in my original install location /Downloads/ and the export works perfectly. So, not sure what I can do to get Capto away from my original download & test location.
Definitely hit a dead end, thought the ffmpeg adjustment was the trick.
It should be the full path to ffmpeg. Try the literal path, don’t use ~.
Thanks for this tool! Just started using Capto to transfer stuff over into my Plex Media Server folders, and for the most part it’s working great although there’s one small glitch I’ve run into with episodes names that have an apostrophe in them. If I issue “-f plex” of course it tries to use the episode name in the file name, and if there’s an apostrophe in the episode name, the script will die with an error like the following:
sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Which of course makes perfect sense, since the apostrophe isn’t escaped properly, the shell script is going to expect there to be a terminating apostrophe surround the string.
Of course it works fine if I manually specify a file name, but that defeats the purpose of having Capto automatically name the files for me 
Same here:
~/capto/capto.v0.4.linux$ ./capto -e 1035648 -f plex
[capto] datetime => Sun Nov 26 07:00:00 2017
[capto] duration => 2114
[capto] epid => 1035648
[capto] episode => 04
[capto] epoch => 1511701200
[capto] eptitle => Tunnels, Beakmania & Trains
[capto] recid => 914411
[capto] season => 02
[capto] series => Beakman’s World
[capto] title => Beakman’s World - s02e04 - Tunnels, Beakmania & Trains
[capto] type => series
[capto] watchid => 1035648
[capto]
[capto] [Control-C to Abort]
[capto]
[capto] Beakman’s World - s02e04 - Tunnels, Beakmania & Trains.mp4
sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
[capto]
[capto] Export Completed in: 0h 0m 1s
It’s just not handling the single quote and interpreting it instead. I would imagine it simply needs to sanitize it with an escape.