The other day I came
home from work and was ready to watch some TV.
I first tried to access
live TV. I kept getting an error message via my Roku. I moved on to
try to access a recording for that night, again no good.
This was really the only
time I have had any issues in the 2 months or so I have been using Tablo.
I opened the app on my iPad
and looked toward the "live TV" tab and notice I was currently only
recording on 1 channel; I have the 4-tuner.
I tried tuning a live TV channel through the app and I got the attached
message.
I dug around a little
and eventually found the problem. My HDD
was full.
After deleting a lot of
programs, especially duplicates, I freed up 300-400GB of space and everything
began working correctly again.
@tablosupport it would
be more helpful to customers if the app/device would just inform us that we are
getting close or filled up our HDD. The
message I got doesn’t even refer to the HDD at all (as you can see).
With that said, I enjoy
the device and know you guys will make the necessary changes in future updates…
We have cut the cord… so no cable means, i have to record a lot of programs for my wife, to keep her happy. @jestep, my wifelikes shows like modern family and big bang theory, which are in syndication, so i have the Tablo set to record all episodes ( i basically have 120-150 of each show sitting on there). That way, she always has something to watch when getting ready for work, etc. So i do hold a good deal of TV programs on here…
After I did a purge on the recordings, I am back to about half my drive being available.
Also, I didn’t realize until I was looking around the settings, I had been recording in 1080 instead of 720. So everything was taking up monster space…
I also have gotten into managing my recordings weekly. I go through them all and delete what isn’t needed anymore…