I often watch live TV on Tablo, over-the-air channels. However, pretty much every single time I’m watching TV, as soon as the show “ends” (ie. according to the TV Guide listings), live playback stops and goes back to the TV Guide.
I literally just want to keep the channel playing indefinitely until I manually go back. This is frustrating for example when I have something playing in the living room while I’m cooking in the kitchen (there’s a big pass-thru, so I can see the entire TV from the kitchen counter) and suddenly gotta get up to hit OK on the Roku remote because it’s back at the Guide and I just want to continue playing the highlighted channel.
Or for example I love watching Judge Judy, and the episode ends up beginning slightly before the “start” (ie. ~3:59:30 PM) so I end up missing the details of the first case, because it goes back to the guide, and then takes a few seconds to get playing again.
Generally I like to play live TV by going to the Live TV Guide, going over to the left, and clicking the channel name/number. Occasionally I will watch it by clicking “Watch Live”. Whether I select the channel this way or by clicking the channel itself, most of the time it will go back to the previous screen once the show has “ended”. Once in a while it will keep playing through past the end of a show, but probably 95% of the time it will go back.
As for device details, I generally watch on the Roku Ultra in my living room, although occasionally I’ll watch on the TV out on my deck, which has a Streaming Stick. The same issue happens there too.
The living room one is a Roku Ultra 4660X. The deck TV has a Roku Streaming Stick 4K 3820R2
Both are running Roku software version 14.6, and both have the Tablo app version 2.2.54, which is the latest available.
For the record I have very strong antenna signal, I live about 15 miles from the tower which has the main channel I watch (which even transmits in ATSC 3.0), have a ClearStream 4MAX pointed right at it, and I live high up on the side of a hill - I can literally see the tower. It’s not that.
And this happens on two different Rokus. Roku has been on version 14 for a while now, so I do not want to keep hearing Tablo blame Roku’s software at this point; it is what it is now, and TABLO needs to update THEIR software to work with it.