It may come down to the comment I made above previously:
“… it may be that I have to delete what is stored internally on the Tablo4 before it will display capacity / usage based on the external drive”
I wouldn’t erase your recordings on the internal drive, until you’re sure it’s necessary. I’m wondering if the 6GB drive actually got formatted.
It’s awhile back and I’ve forgotten, but I seem to recall getting a message in the App on my phone that a drive was detected and being asked if I would like to format it. Also, I would check if 6GB is beyond the maximum that will work. Sorry I’m hazy on this, but I’m hoping someone will reply to you who can be more clear and helpful.
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Hello all just received my Tablo 4th gen yesterday. Have to say i am liking it on my i phone and iPad. So glad i can cut the cord on my cable. Sent in the survey hopefully they will let me beta test for them on my three Apple TVs 1-4k and 2-hd’s.
I have 30+ recordings sitting on the 6 GB drive (it did successfully format and is working) - the usage info for the Tablo4 Internal Storage has not changed since the external drive was attached.
So either the Tablo4 only reports on Internal Storage if it is in use, or there is a missing “feature” where it is not reporting usage on the External drive as expected.
Not a concern - hoping someone in Product Development eventually chimes in with some feedback.
This topic was covered in the beta forum
https://community.tablotv.com/t/new-4th-gen-tablo-apple-tv-app-beta-v-1-4-1-1-4-3/34365/1567
Hey Folks,
Our long-awaited 4th Generation Tablo app for Apple TV has been officially released!
As such, you no longer need to register for early access, simply go to your app store, download, install and enjoy.
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This is exciting! Thank You for all your Hard Work!!
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Thank you so much BETA TESTER’s. Your hard work and relentless drive to get it right, will pay such dividends later. Your the Best.
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Thanks for this wonderful news. Has the feedback mechanism changed? I need to submit a suggestion and want to send it to the right place (very impressed by the app so far and it’s only been a couple of days).
Feel free to submit it here. We’d love to hear your feedback.
Thank you. I just updated to 1.4.4.
So far, I’ve been testing by comparing with the legacy app and legacy Tablo Dual Lite. Performance compares very favorably, but there’s one behavior on the legacy app that I really like and would love to see on the 4th-gen app: When you’re watching a recording and want to fast forward a long way, on the legacy app, you pause playback, long-press the right button until it starts to fast forward. You then release the right button and can let it continue to advance. If you momentarily press right again, it will speed up and show FF speed 2. You can do this two more times up to FF4, which really zips ahead without you having to hold the right button.
This is very nice behavior, because (1) you don’t have to hold the right button while it’s advancing, (2) speed 4 is really fast, and (3) it doesn’t consume the remote’s battery as much (I do this a lot).
I don’t know what’s involved in making this change to FF (it also works in fast rewind), but it’s a very convenient feature.
Thanks again for all of the amazing work you folks have done on this (I have a fair amount of experience with image processing and video transcoding and can guess a lot of what’s under the hood in the Apple TV app).
I second this feature request. Additionally, I’d like to advocate for more Siri integration so that I can use the Siri remote to say “skip forward X minutes” to be able to skip commercials. I can do this in pretty much every other streaming app. This is functionality Apple users want.
Thanks, that’s very interesting about Siri integration. I rarely use Siri and had no idea that some streaming apps work with it. Nice idea, will have to try it.
I love the Siri integration with streaming apps. Being able to skip back/forward using a voice command is so much easier than pressing and scrolling.
Nice job on the release, Tablo! I’ve detected a minor issue using the Siri Remote. The scroll “ring” normally functions as a quick FF or RW by placing a finger on the ring, and swiping in a circular motion. A little “wheel” appears on the screen timeline indicating this mode.
The new Tablo TV app, however, does not recognize this gesture on the Siri Remote. Hopefully a fix is coming.
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Looks like the Apple TV app is now “in production”? I just received an email saying you can down load from the Apple TV App Store. No longer beta?
Right, it’s live! And it’s darn good in its current condition. I found that I had to delete the app (I was at 1.4.3) before getting it from the app store or it wouldn’t replace my beta version.
Meanwhile, here’s a problem that’s been discussed before on other platforms: if you go to watch a show that’s still recording, it doesn’t go to the beginning like the legacy app, it goes to the current live point (i.e., the end of the recording). You can rewind to the beginning, but this is tedious and can take a while if you’re an hour into a two-hour show. This was reported about Android phones (and there are other threads): New Tablo - Can you watch a show from begining while still recording
I request that this be added to the to-do list for the Apple TV app if it’s not already there. Thanks!
(sigh)
from:
https://www.tablotv.com/blog/4th-generation-tablo-app-for-apple-tv-now-available/
Which leads to:
cannot be started from the beginning of the program
You never wondered what magic tablo used to cause MPEG2 to play on a device that didn’t support MPEG2. Once you drift off to a 3rd party video player I’m sure this isn’t the only thing that doesn’t work or works differently. But that is life in the apple ecosystem.
Thanks for those pointers.
I deduced that the 4th-gen Tablo app for Apple TV had to have its own internal transcoding (or rendering) of MPEG2 streams (the performance is quite impressive), but I’ve long since forgotten MPEG-TS structure, and thought there might be a way for a renderer to compute start of stream.
Rewind isn’t a horrible solution, but it would be less cumbersome if it didn’t require holding the left button on the remote.
Thanks again for the detail. I’m motivated to go back to the technical description of MPEG-TS and MPEG2.