Tablo LED Blinking for 20min at 3AM

[Lysander]

I cannot find any mention of something like this in the forum. For the past two nights, around 3AM I noticed the LED on the Tablo slowly blinking for about 20 minutes. Then it goes back to steady blue. I checked my recordings and live TV in the morning and all appeared to be working normally.

Connected to network by Ethernet. It is on a UPS so not a power issue.

What would cause this?

[UPDATE]

Searching through Google, rather than the forum I found this link:

Blue light blinking, "unknown error"

It does maintenance each night (ie: updating the guide and some housecleaning) and the light will blink during those operations. Here's what @TabloSupport said about it in an earlier post: I also believe it will suspend those operations if there is activity and pick up the following night. I'm sure there's more to the story but that's the gist of it. Hope that helps.

“Around 3-4 AM local time the Tablo updates its guide - but it’s doing quite a bit of maintenance and file system clearing as well. It waits until this time to do this in order not to slow down user operations.”

So I guess, Tablo thinks I should not be up that time of night and would not notice it otherwise

[Tom_C]

You can turn off the LED in settings.