To the best of my knowledge, there is no reason you cannot run both a Legacy Tablo, and a Gen 4 Tablo on the same network. Your streaming devices (or Smart TV would need to have both the Legacy and Gen4 apps installed.
And there is the problem - can’t install the app for the legacy Tablo on the new LG TV. So 1 or so tb of things we have recorded on the Tablo, we can’t watch - not without running the crashy legacy app on my Windows 11 laptop and playing the shows on my computer and then connecting the TV as a wireless display to my laptop - and that ties up the laptop for hours. So all of the stuff we have recorded already on the legacy Tablo - is really difficult to setup and watch, and my wife certainly can’t do it.
So I have to be here, dedicate my laptop (which gets REALLY HOT! in the process) and play the recording on my laptop connected to the TV as a wireless display. I suspect it’s getting so hot because it’s using the WiFi to get the stream from Tablo and then having to broadcast it to the TV as a wireless display.
Yeah, it was just a musing, really - the sad bit is, of all of those streaming channels they list, all of the ION channels and such - we get a lot of that stuff OTA, so having a new Tablo really wouldn’t add much for us. Get get METV, AntennaTV, 3 ION channels and several others, all over the air. So there’s not a lot of value in the streaming channels they add. I get more with Xumo.
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That’s a drag! I used to have an older LG with Web OS and it used the legacy app. Worked great! Had no idea that there was an issue loading the legacy app on the new LGs.
That is disappointing… and you say all your HDMI ports are taken, so you can’t connect an external streaming device. That is surprising, because newer TVs usually have at least three. I would be curious what is filling them all up.
What outputs do you have open? I know that some of the older Roku models had both HDMI and composite (RCA) outputs. I don’t know if there are any streaming devices that support that any more.
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I could probably pull the Chromecast, I left the firestick out already.
BlueRay player, and sound bar - though this new TV doesn’t play well with it’s own LG sound bar! It keeps changing back to internal speaker and I have to go to settings and change it back to the HDMI sound bar.
The BR player is HDMI and I’d not tried with this TV yet, but the other one if you insert a disk it turned on the TV and changed to the BR input - NICE.
We pay NO monthly subscriptions to anything. Not going to get into that again. We’ve gotten rid of almost all monthly payments save for taxes, electric, internet and phone, and are happier that way. Got free Xumo device with the internet service - not that it’s a big deal, the TV has that built-in so it’s not even connected - it would take HDMI if I used it.
Done. I’ll say it again, our plain black rectangular 4 tuner Tablo from the very early years - the most trouble-free thing ever. There were some early hiccups with certain firmware and software but once it got to where it is - it’s a marvel of electronic engineering. It’s one of those things like once you have a car that’s perfectly reliable - you don’t want to trade it in and hassle with the risks of new.
Yeah, we swapped to our new tv and I tried loading the familiar app - no go. I loaded the NEW app, it loaded but won’t even connect to the legacy tablo. HOPE they work on that. It’s really a brilliant simple setup when it’s all working. So simple even my technology-lacking wife could use it!
There’s the issue - newer TVs can’t access both - they won’t load the older app and the new app won’t recognize a legacy tablo (which is a PERFECTLY working device)
Looks like after more research, another reason to keep the legacy Tablo is remote access. They have dropped that in the new generation. No ability to access it outside of your own network. Bummer.
No, they have said from the start that the Gen4 does not support remote viewing. They may add it later, but it is not a priority for them.
Also, you said you have a Chromecast. Doesn’t that support apps? Is there a Tablo app for your Chromcast?
Yes, this is true on your newer TV. However, as @KGBnut says, your chromecast or other streaming device should be able to load both apps. It’s just your television that can’t.
Also, a reminder, if you flash your OG Legacy device with the new firmware, you may not be able to go back. You might be better off first getting the Gen4 Tablo and trying it out on your new TV. We don’t use LG or its apps to I don’t know how well it works with the Gen4 app.
I’ve had no desire or need to even look at a new Tablo until this year, so maybe they have said it from the start - it’s the first I knew of it this week.
The chromecast is an antique - version 1.00 - not sure what it will support or load. I frankly haven’t even “turned it on” for over a year since I found that my laptop will connect to the TV directly. I used to run Tablo recordings in the Chrome browser and then cast it to the chromecast - can’t do that since they dropped browser support years ago and went to the app only, and don’t need to since this computer will use the TV as a wireless monitor.
Smacked hard with medical bills and vet bills - and gasoline bills this winter. Multiple surgeries including brain surgery and in the middle of all of that, literally during, two of our favorite cats had life-ending issues (emergency vet bills aren’t cheap) so waiting for Tablo to go on sale to think of getting a gen IV to pair with our legacy device.
I’m considering it…
Just did some research, you can’t load apps onto a Chromecast, you can run apps on a phone or computer and “cast” them to the chromecast, but only the chromecast with Google TV can have apps loaded. So an HDMI chromecast device cannot run apps. So I might as well remove it since there’s no need to cast with the computer being able to use the TV as a wireless monitor. It’s a wasted device…
I know you mentioned not wanting to add more devices but I’ll still just throw out there you might consider replacing the Chromecast with something like a Google TV Streamer (4K). You could load all sorts of apps on it and it’s going to be more powerful (and stay more updated) then the WebOS on your LG TV.
Prefer to not have another remote and another device to deal with.
Not concerned about the WebOS on the TV - we had the prior LG TV for a while and the Tablo app ran on it perfectly for years. Currently, everything we watch is on OTA TV or LG channels… and Tablo recordings.
There’s a remote for the soundbar, the BR player and the TV - and if I have a remote for something, my wife has to find it, or if she has it, I have to find it. For my wife more than anything, want to keep it super simple - so it’s all run through the TV and using the TV remote like we did until the TV upgrade. We don’t even use any of the apps already loaded on the TV.
This is understandable because it’s my same philosophy. 
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You should be able to sync the sound bar ( if connected with HDMI) with the TV to turn sound bar on when the TV starts up. Look at the TV setup menu for sound output and choose the output to soundbar.