Hello,
I live in Montreal and I live 1.8km away from a small independent broadcaster (channel 29, Savoir-Media). I have an older channel scan from April 2025 that sees it perfectly (4 green dots), but newer scans fail to detect it. I can watch it, record from it, and have the TV guide associated with the channel. If I install the new Tablo App, it wipes it from the Tablo device.
What I have:
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2 different Tablo devices 4-tuners, one with the old firmware/software that plays perfectly fine with the scan from April 2025. If I do a channel scan, it does not see channel 29. The other Tablo device used to have channel 29, but installation of the new Tablo App wiped it out.
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Five different antennas, including an 8-bay antenna, a Winegard Elite 8550 with amplifier, rabbit ears, RCA indoor antenna. All say the same thing: channel 29 is one of the strongest channel. I even get PBS that is 100 km away!!
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I tried all the permutations to account for too strong or too weak channel signal. And even so, how could my Tablo device with the old firmware/software can play it without a glitch if it was a signal issue?
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Channel 29 is on Gracenote.
I contacted Tablo support by email and they blame the signal of course, and advised to install the latest firmware on my old second device …I guess it is one way to solve the problem, i.e. to make it simply disappear!!
Anyone else experienced somehting similar in Montreal or in your area? Were you able to make it work?
Thank you!