NEW & Improved Tablo App for Fire TV & Android TV (2.0.0 - AKA Un-PREVIEW)

Nope :upside_down_face:

We submitted the app a week ago and the usual turnaround time is ~12 hours.

As soon as it’s live we’ll be sure to let everyone know.

Hi all -

Quick update for folks waiting for the Amazon Fire TV app release. The new ETA we were given by Amazon is sometime before Friday afternoon.

Thanks for your patience.

Amazon has approved the 2.0 app update!

It’s now available for download and your Amazon Fire TV devices should update automatically in the next few hours.

ENJOY!

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How about fixing the Apple TV app? Constantly messing up.

So tired of pausing a show and going back to the beginning of time for the channel.

The new app works very well. Thanks.

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You might get more of a response if you constructively post in the correct thread…

I just downloaded the latest Fire TV app (not preview) and think I have found a bug. While recording a show with the keep 1 last episode setting, the antenna cut out and split the show into two recordings, then the app deleted the first half of the show. This did not happen with the Tablo Preview App for Fire TV.

This would be a firmware issue, not the Fire TV app.

The app doesn’t do the clean up of recordings.

I’m not real happy with some of the features that were removed from the original app on Fire TV. Lost the capability to always have it start up in the recording tab. The display of the recorded shows I don’t care for, but ‘hopefully’ I will get used to that change.

And another thing that seemed to occur at the same time so don’t know if it was a firmware update, but almost all of my recordings that were set to record ‘new’ shows are not recording them. I’ve had to go back and manually record shows that are marked ‘new’ but are not being flagged to be recorded.

There was a short Tablo outage last weekend…

That’s likely the cause of your recording schedule issues, not a firmware or app update.

I thought that this was just the Preview app re-branded, but it is clearly different. Or new bugs have been added.

When I hit pause (Fire TV), the video stops immediately, but the sound (5.1) continues for about 2 seconds. Which is bad enough, and one of the reasons I switched to the preview app a while ago. But now when I un-pause, the video skips ahead the amount that the sound played, so I miss the video for that couple of seconds.

I really hope Tablo fixes these audio/video sync issues with this “new and improved” app, or keeps the “Preview” version around for years to come.

I have updated to the latest version of Tablo for fire TV and the difference between the older version where you could easily view tiles of recent recordings in the order in which they were recorded and the new Tablo for Fire TV app is quite different. I am not pleased with the new appearance of recent recordings that appear as a list that you have to scroll down through rather than showing tiles of recent recordings that I have gotten use to.

I’m using the Android TV app on a Shield TV not a Fire TV so maybe things are different between the two apps but you are saying under Recordings you don’t see filters like All and Recent? I see both and they both work as expected. All is the alphabetical order while Recent is in reverse chronological order.

I think he is saying the layout of the recordings are different.
In the old app it was laid out like this…
TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW

Now the NEW app is laid out like this…
DATE 6/9/2020
TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW
DATE 6/8/2020
TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW
DATE 6/7/2020
TV SHOW TV SHOW TV SHOW

The filters are there, just the layout of the tiles of your recordings are different.
In the old app, everything was bunched together reading from left to right with the most recent recording starting on the upper left.
In the updated app, recordings are sorted by date with the most recent being at the top.

So, if you record a lot of weekly shows. The recordings could be towards the bottom of the list/screen if you start watching at a certain date. In the old app, it was almost always somewhere on 1 screen.

Hope that makes sense.

That does make sense, seems like there must be a difference in the way the Fire TV UI organizes things vs the Android TV UI.

The Fire TV stick now matches the Roku. And the Roku Recording/Recent was always superior to Fire TV stick.

I have multiple tablos and have never used or had a desire to use remote connect. I find it strange that on all of my units, I find that in the settings menu, my device is paired and set to full quality. Who am I paired with and why should it be if the remote connect option isn’t turned on?

Yes, I can see how this might be a bit confusing.

Even though you don’t have Tablo Connect enabled, the fact that you’ve connected to each Tablo while you’re on its home network has set pairing data for that Fire TV device.

If at some time in the future you enable Tablo Connect, that Fire TV device would be ready to use remotely.

We’re hoping to make the settings around this feature a bit clearer as we move forward.

I guess not wanting to have any of my own devices as well as any device of a visitor paired seems to be an elusive concept.

They’re both exactly the same.

RECORDINGS ALL is by series sorted alphabetically… you can use the alphabetical menu on the far right to jump quickly through longer lists.

RECORDINGS RECENT is sorted by date and shown by individual airing vs. by series:

You can start playback from either of these screens by highlighting the series or show and selecting PLAY vs. OK/ENTER.

Nothing has changed with the implementation of Tablo Connect despite the new details in the settings area. In order to access your Tablo any user would need to have your network password and connect to your Tablo on its home network. If you don’t have Tablo Connect enabled, any person who had previously accessed your Tablo would not be able to connect to it remotely despite pairing data being stored.

That being said, in addition to providing additional clarity in the settings screen we want to add additional functionality including the ability to revoke pairing on specific devices for those that have this feature enabled.