OTA when internet is down

I would hope Tablo Community Forums is an inclusive environment. :rainbow: Welcoming what ever gender you may or may not associate with.

Thatā€™s your business, I think calling out someone else is getting close to the edge - even if itā€™s already obvious. Itā€™s up to them if/when they want to make a declaration. :rainbow_flag:

I cancelled the subscription to the guide because it was always wrong due to Tablo changing it as soon as the scan finishes. At least I got my money back. Theyā€™ve (support) opened three different tickets that I canā€™t find right now but Iā€™m sure someoneā€™s working feverishly to correct the problem. Iā€™ve sent several ā€˜listsā€™ to support detailing which channels are wrong and support (Dave) has been into my Tablo multiple times. Same answer: too many channels in my area and the US FCC is not doing their job to prevent it. This appears on the surface to be very complicated but it really isnā€™t. As usual, its about money. Think about it.

Wrong again Zippy. There are two closed tickets and one open. And lists as long as your arm repeatedly. Now go away Zippy.

Since no one knows the actual zip code or stations involved, what are you looking for from your post?

Iā€™m not asking you for anything. Iā€™m asking Tablo to correct a problem they created as part of their business model. A problem which impacts all their customers in different ways. Tablo has all the information needed to solve this problem. Thanks for all your help.

Then why the post for all us mere mortals to see? You couldā€™ve posted this under Tablo Support Twitter and not have all of us trying to help. Donā€™t get snippy with the community because we asked for more info than you felt necessary to divulge. We are only trying to help.

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OK, ā€˜mere mortalā€™ is this your way of helping? Sorry if this issue hurts your eyes. This issue has been reported multiple times. To Support. And I intend to post wherever and whenever I feel my free speech rights apply. Tablo has no right to change my channel scans and remove and add channels that donā€™t exist. You want snippy,I have a load.

Who told you this was a forum for you to say what ever you felt like saying?
https://community.tablotv.com/faq

Youā€™ll need to get your own ā€œthis is my free speechā€ forum to just post with disreguard to anyone else.

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Again, hate that YOU have had ALL these issues. We have used an original 4-tuner Tablo since 02/25/2016 and not had any of the issues you mentioned. Yes, it may not work for everyone, but most seem happy with it. Hope you find something that works out for you.

It is a common misconception that the First Amendment prohibits anyone from limiting free speech, including private, non-governmental entities. It is applicable only to the government limiting free speech.

That said, it would be nice to have access to recordings even if the internet is down. Many have reliable internet, but some people donā€™t. Requiring internet just adds a potential issue. It could be a simple interface, maybe just titles and no pictures.

I think what is bugging people is that the Tablo is sitting there with all your recordings and one would think it should be able to stream them to your device as long as your network is up and running. That just seems like the way it should be, although Iā€™m sure thereā€™s some programming in there that makes it difficult to do.

I can pass the play list URL to a media play on my media PC and and stream it hassle free (well, once I get the path).

Most, or a couple Iā€™m familiar with, 3rd party apps access my tablo without the internet - one I provide the IP another, either uses the internet or has some discovery facility, and it does store the tablo IP, so I suspect it could use that as well.

Hereā€™s a post from TabloSupport suggesting the methodology just isnā€™t in their business modelā€¦ I suspect they want a simplistic consumer device.

If you use a Roku on a home-network you can watch your recordings.

Is this topic about the Internet being down or the WiFi going down because some people have crappy home routers that shut down the WiFi when the ā€œInternetā€ goes down? Are we saying the Tablo doesnā€™t function when the LAN is up but the WAN is not?

I have seen it continue working on some devices and not on others. One time we had an outage and it worked in our iPads but not on the Samsung TV built in app.

That sounds like the Samsung app is trying to connect out to the Internet and wasnā€™t able to.

My Fire TV sticks go no where without the WAN.

But Iā€™m sure if you search the forum you might find threads lots of posts.

The first post sums the topic if the title is vague.

Pretty sure thatā€™s an Amazon issue. It wonā€™t run any apps with Internet.

FWIW, on my main computer I keep a tab with my.tablotv.com loaded all the time. When I do that, it works even when the internet goes down. Itā€™s only when it needs to load the app that it fails.