Tablo for Plex - Now available in the Plex Channel Store

@iamxero I have been too busy with family and work to complete rewriting the plugin to use their new API. I had made a lot of progress on a version 2.0 but then they made a new and awesome api that required yet another rewrite. Then to top it off the HD I had connected to my Tablo died over the summer and we really didn’t watch any summer shows so I had less motivation to buy a new one. The good news is I may take some time to work on it and if anyone would like to help it is completely open source so anyone can update it, improve it, fork it etc.

David, I am sorry if it came across like I was calling you out on this. I know this is just a pet project and I never had the expectation for it to be treated like anything else. I was sort of hoping your version could prove to be a good POC for the Tablo devs and maybe we could see something first party with the support that comes along with it.

I really do appreciate you making this work and it did serve me well over the past year.

This channel is awesome.

I wish it was truly that easy. How do you get Plex to recognize tablo and once you do how do you get Plex to pull in the data from Tablo. Mine is bipolar, has found tablo twice after about 50 attempts at reloading the channel in plex and restarting my Plex server. The two times it did connect to my tablo I only saw a couple of tv channels under live tv and none of my recordings. I posted an issue/request for assistance here but no one responded so I thought I would jump on this thread. I really need to access tablo thru Plex for one of my tvs but I am at my wits end. I cannot find any solutions here or anywhere else thru google. PLEASE help?

Any chance you’d be willing to help me understand the DDNS set up? I have a similar scenario with the tablo at a friends house and plex at my place. I have not been able to successfully connect using IP override and would greatly appreciate a few pointers.

I’ve not been able to get my Tablo on PLEX since a few Tablo updates ago. I really don’t need to have it as I put all of my Tablo recordings on my PLEX server using Tablo Ripper. But, just thought about trying it again this morning and found a way in, which works on my system anyway. Haven’t tried it remotely yet, but will this coming Monday on my office computer.

I was getting a intercept saying “No soup for you…” before I fixed it. All I did was click the ‘*’ icon on the Tablo channel icon and pasted my normal web access address which is “http://my.tablotv.com/#/primetime” as an IP override. Everything seems fine now.

-Rodger

I have tried this app several times, but have never been able to get it to work.

I can go into it just fine, but when I try to access recordings, it just says something like “Server Unavailable.”

This only worked the first time I accessed the Tablo channel. Now it just says “Could not connect to your Tablo”.

-Rodger

www.changeip.com

Sign up for a free account and register a free domain/DDNS.
Your router should be able to also use your login and password at www.changeip.com.
Once your router connects to your account it will report your current IP to changeip and changeip will update their DNS to point to your router’s IP. Not sure if that helps but I did not want to get too technical.

Oh are you just using this as a precaution for when/if the public ip renews at your parents house? That way you wouldn’t need to go and add a new IP to the plead tablo channel override? Basically you’re entering a sub domain or some change up domain in the override instead of the direct IP address?

Or are you using this to make it seem as thought your tablo has has an ip on your local network allowing plex and roku a to automatically discover it?

@Davidvr As of a couple of weeks ago, the recordings list in my plugin are “frozen in time”. They show the recordings as of some day and nothing newer. Both the “Shows” and “Recent Recordings” always show the lists as of that date and earlier. The iOS app shows and plays the more recent recordings. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin and also deleted some of the ~/Library/App Support/ Tablo files. When I reinstall the plugin the old data reappears. I also stopped PMS and deleted the “Dict” file and restarted. It created a new Dict file and still showed old data.

Something else that might help: When I select “Reset Plugin” under the help menu, I don’t see the message in the log from your cleartablodata() that should say “Clear appears to have worked”.

Any suggestions?

Same here, recordings aren’t updated.

Hi,

I can get live TV in my Plex Tablo channel, but recordings are not updated too. Any solution ?

@Davidvr, I’ve done some more digging. The rest API returns used by the plugin have stopped returning the jsonFromTribune sections of data. I think the 2.2.8 update on the Tablo is what caused it.

add me to the list of those unable to access recordings in Plex. has @TabloTV acknowledged the issue at all?

Great work on the channel. I’ve have a few interesting things happen since I been using it over the last day. Sometimes it changes channels on it’s own. After it does this I’m required to back completely out of the channel and restart it or no other channels work. This has happened 3 times. I would be happy to provide debug info you you let me know what you need. Oh, BTW, I’m on the new Apple TV 4.

Just bumping because I tried to install the app but it won’t show up in my list of apps. I try and “browse” and it gives me an error. Hopefully the authors can weigh in on this. I’ve also read that recordings are having playback issues. Thank you for your assistance.

I just pulled in version 2 into the master branch so that I can make room for version 3 :slight_smile:

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Thanks @Davidvr You’ll have to forgive me, I’m a brand new Plex user so I’m not following what you mean by Master Branch. Hopefully that means you are updating the Plex Tablo Channel to version 3 so that it can work with Tablo. Thank you again for creating this channel and maintaining it.

@Davidvr
I’m with @strav22 on this one, thank you for taking the time and working on this, I can’t install the channel from Plex but I’m looking forward a newer version that will install itself.

Other thread reports issues with the playback of recording, if the new version could adress that as well it would be beautiful.

thanks again

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