Signal Strength Meter

Feature Requests
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Is there any chance of having a signal strength meter added to the iOS app? I’d love to use that to help aim my antenna.

Thanks!

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The Tablo signal strength meter is really useless compared to a real signal meter. You are shown dots and not percentage. It would be great if they incorporated a real signal meter for all platforms. You can have 5 green dots and still get no reception if you are overdriving the signal.

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From what I’ve seen, those dots don’t represent live signal strength. All of my channels show 5 dots. I can unplug my antenna and they still show 5 dots with no reception at all. I think those dots are determined when the channel scan is completed.

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This is a correct assumption.

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There are a lot of very cheap tuners that have realtime signal strength displays. Even many TV’s have one, often buried in a menu. You could always use that to adjust the antenna, then connect it to the Tablo.

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It’s a little difficult to take a TV into the attic, even more so on a roof. Being able to see it in an iOS app is so much easier. The HD Home Run box has this feature - it’s really handy.

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Yessir, that’s correct. Good info in this article, albeit older information it should still be relevant.

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It’d be a good idea to have a signal meter added to both the Android and iOS TabloTV mobile apps. Ultimately it would rely on a connection to a TabloTV tuner so this would be the best place for portability. Otherwise, if it were a stand-alone meter, you wouldn’t know what channel(s) you’re tuning in, unless it had access to a TabloTV tuner.

Here’s an example of what HD HomeRun allowed for their users.

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