I have a Tablo quad. I recently started having an issue with recordings broken into 2 segments. First segment is 2-5 minutes, then the rest of the show in the 2nd segment. The strange thing is that it does not seem to be a “poor quality” issue because the rest of the recording has commercial skip enabled which only happens if the signal quality is good. Is anyone else experiencing this problem. I am using the latest 2.26 firmware. Any suggestions?
Hello codebest. The fragmenting happens on more than one channel. I see where you’re coming from based on your thread of not being able to record 4 programs the problem being a bad signal from CBS.
I have been using the Tablo quad for about three months and this started happening after the TV channels changed frequencies on Sept 11. So it could be a signal issue.
I see that you are an electronics tech. We should keep in touch for troubleshooting issues. I am a ham radio operator and can help with antennas.
Funny you should ask that. Yesterday i was recording 3 shows: 6:00 PM news on ABC, NBC, and CBS. They all fragmented at exactly 15 Minutes. A couple days ago i was recording 2 prime time shows: on ABC and CBS and they both fragmented at 36 minutes. So would indicate a CPU problem? A hiccup causing all of the tuners to stop at the same time. I noticed that not much program time was lost between the fragments a few seconds at most.
So I am doing a test of only recording 2 instead of 3 of the 6PM news shows to see if reducing the CPU load has any effect. Do you have a solution for this
I would love to compare notes with you: antenna setups, etc.
Do you do DSTAR or DMR? 40 M or 20 M?
It’s unlikely to have anything at all to do with the CPU load based on my testing. I’ve had the thing all apart with a small heatsink on the CPU recording 4 shows and while it was very hot it never rebooted. I’ve now replaced all the thermal pads because I had it open a few times, added the 40mm fan and put the 2.5 inch external USB drive back in the internal bay.
Go to live TV, manually record 4 shows and watch the blue power LED like a hawk. If you see it start to blink you’ve rebooted. At that point try to record 4 different channels. Your a HAM, any chance you are throwing some RF into the inputs?
I use to do 20 and 40M, had some 80 coverage as well. Sadly I don’t have any HF coverage any longer. Been just running on the local VHF/UHF repeater scene lately. Fusion is my digital poison lately.