Nilex
January 9, 2026, 11:17pm
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Not sure if you are a user newer to the community since your profile is private/hidden but search is helpful in these cases. Here are a couple of long existing threads regarding your request:
Since the Tablo has multiple tuners, it would be nice to be able to select multiple channels to watch in real-time while positioning the antenna.
+1 Would love to see a signal meter accessible while tuned to a channel and without having to do a rescan of all channels. From a Roku perspective, I would be ok if, while viewing a channel, you could press the “*” button to bring up a menu and from that menu choose a “Signal Strength/Quality” button that would then pop up information on the screen with the signal strength and quality information. A refresh button could be next to this information so if a user is adjusting their antenna, they …
From what I’ve seen, those dots don’t represent live signal strength. All of my channels show 5 dots. I can unplug my antenna and they still show 5 dots with no reception at all. I think those dots are determined when the channel scan is completed.
I live 12 miles from my broadcast towers in flat as a pancake Florida. And I have an outside antenna about 10’ up.
And still I get choppy reception sometimes. Is the signal too strong? Is it too weak? I don’t know what I’m dealing with.
It’s the only thing keeping me on DirecTV.
I would LOVE to have a menu choice I could go to that would display the current signal strength on each channel.