Who knows. Maybe the bug is that they let you do it on the phone app in the first place.
Ding ding that’s the problem since without a subscription you can only create manual recordings.
Hopefully they add this functionality you want, but I wouldn’t hold your breath. Tablo makes a great product and they continue to support it and make improvements, maybe splurge for a lifetime subscription to allow them to continue to invest time and money into furthering the device. I’ve had a Tablo for 7 years, the lifetime sub is well worth it.
Heck no. I’m on my second one after the first one’s wifi went bad and then it went bad on my replacement unit. I’m about done with Tablo.
If 2 units went bad, wouldn’t you be on your 3rd Tablo?
Clarify: in order to “record” an in progress show complete, you already need to have been watching it from the beginging via Live TV…?
I can get similar in non-Roku, Play/Watch | Record – Personally I have no idea if it’d record a show if I had started watching from the start, probably not (?) …but has similar option as you describe.
Can you reference where it’s noted this is “broken” and on the list…
Here’s a post from TabloTV trying to explain why watching Live TV creates a playlist technically different from a recorded playlist. Tablo’s design makes an on-the-fly recording …a technical challenge:
note:
There is no technical way to convert a live playlist to a recording playlist. The live playlist must end and a new playlist must be started for the recording.
Seems to be a misunderstanding as to what’s getting “fixed” 
Nope, you could start watching a live show 35 minutes into it, then back out to the live TV grid and set the episode to record. But of course it will only record from when you hit record. Even if you were watching live TV from beginning, it only records from when you hit record, it will not record from the beginning.
I had to go out and buy a powerline adaptor so I could hardwire it to Ethernet.
I don’t know the technical aspect of it and obviously they don’t either. All I know is I never had a problem doing it with past DVRs. And why can it be done on the android phone app but not these streaming apps. Doesn’t make sense. It’s not a high priority on their list. And obviously they don’t care about people who bought the unit but don’t want to subscribe. I don’t watch much broadcast TV aside from a few news programs so I have no desire to subscribe.
Actually, I think the link above explains they (Tablo) DO know the technical aspect of it.
Comparing to your past DVRs. you need to make sure you are talking apples and apples. Did those past DVRs record the MPEG-2 stream directly or transcode it? Unless they were also transcoding like the Tablo does it’s not a fair comparison.
I agree with this. Tablo has explained the technical reason why when you want to record an in progress live show it does not record the previously watched portion (the beginning of the show).
Look, then tell me why it can be done on the android app and not the other apps? Doesn’t make sense. It’s not a high priority for them to fix this
What I said above has nothing to do with your “feature request” for the UI on a Roku when using a Tablo without a valid subscription. It speaks to another “issue” that others have brought up.
If you get a subscription, the Tablo will do what you want as I explained in the first few posts in this thread.
Feature request my azz, this is a basic function of any DVR. I’m done with this POS company and their lazy azz engineers.
Right, you can always record a partial show.
Thanks for the clarification. I misunderstood this was suggesting it would creat a completed recording …if you had been watching since before the show began.
Or if you had been, the “live playlist” is unaware of any start time for programing. It starts recording - transcoding, at an arbitrary point in time, irrelevant of shows.
I found a work around for Google TV users. Just click on the program to record, change the end time to the actual end time and then create isn’t greyed out anymore. This works and records the show. Still no fix for Roku. This is easily fixable by the Tablo engineers. They just refuse to do it. Well you know I think of them…
You can always call them and express this opinion verbally to them.
Holy Cow I thought he was “I’m Done”.
I guess he could brush up on his brightscript skills and volunteer to fix the Roku app.
Sorry, I just have no respect for a company that won’t fix a known bug. Now “I’m done”.