Pointing antenna right at fox 25 but it never scans. Tried everything but decided to to ditch Tablo and just connect directly tv and surprise fox comes in beautiful
Hello, can you tell us what TV, streaming device, and antenna you’re using. Please also include your ZIP Code so we can check your channel lineup.
Also, how far are you from this station’s tower?
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Also not all tuners are built the same.
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15 miles to fox 25 Framingham to Dedham. Fox use to come in on Tablo but stopped working. So antenna not the problem. Problem is Tablo period full stop.
You’ll probably need to reach out to Tablo Support.
I don’t know if you’ve contacted Tablo Support, but upon reviewing what I think is your location, you may be too close to the towers. Make sure you turn off the Tablo Amplifier in the settings and review this Tablo article.
That would be conventional wisdom. Having said that, I live within 5 miles of a 1000Kw PBS TV transmitter which I receive just fine with a Televes Dinova antenna (amplified) and the Tablo 4G amplifier turned on! I need the mplification for all the other channels which are 30-50 miles away.
I live 50 miles from the towers to my south and 46 miles to towers to my north. Have 2 Televes long range mix antennas on my roof with built in amplifiers. Have the tablo amp turned off. Works fantastic.
That makes sense, @sktn77a, that the antenna is outside or below the transmission cone and the amp IS needed. It could also be that the broadcast antenna was somehow adjusted or changed.
Or, as the OP said, maybe it is the Tablo and its amp was cycled on or off during an update.
The distance estimate the OP provided (15 miles) is probably much more accurate than what I posted - I just used the Dedham town center.
My guess here would be that the antenna is wonky. Try a different antenna and rescan.
I could not agree more! The disappointing thing is that it keeps getting worse, and they have the gall to send me an email peddling their Tablo TV. They will have to demonstrate a major improvement in reliability before I would ever spend another dime on their unsupported junk systems!
2 or 4 tuner Tablo? A 4 tuner Tablo has 6-7 dB of losses due to splitters needed to feed each of the four receivers, This is one reason why there is a built in amplifier, to counteract those losses. Did you use the identical antenna setup for TV and Tablo, antenna mounting and aiming the same (ie identical) ? Antenna feed wire identical (length type termination)? Also, as others have stated the signal might be too strong and saturating the input of the tuners. That can be fixed with a simple attenuator.
You have to invest a degree of effort to figure out if your problem is a weak signal or a strong signal. That doesn’t seem to be too much to ask before you start a thread with such a silly and untrue title.
I wish a good antenna would fix all the problems with this beta program. Just trying to watch a recorded program is a gamble on whether it will crash or not.
Typical NTSC 1.0 tuners can generally handle higher input signal levels than amplifiers. Feeding the Tablo with an amplified input signal will more likely overdrive the internal Tablo amplifier before it ever reaches the Tablo tuners. The end result is the same, which is why sometimes turning off the Tablo internal amp leads to “better reception”.
Actually if Fox 25 is that close and is a full power station, you may want to reposition your antenna off a few degrees left or right to reduce the chance of overwhelming the antenna.
If there is a nearby building you can aim for that to pickup the reflection.
The tuner in the Tablo Gen4 is not on-par with what you might have in the TV.
Or acquire an attenuator.
Good luck!
Its only because the Tablo tuners are behind a 1:4 splitter network inside Tablo. That is a 6-7dB insertion loss.
I was thinking about the microcode controlling the tuner during overload.
Doesn’t really matter anymore as the OP has moved on.
Title says it all. I bought an hd homerun flex 4k hopefully it is better.
Well, the HDhomerun doesn’t do key things the Tablo does -wifi distribution to multiple TVs, free guide…
From there website
“Receive Free to air TV via an antenna allowing you to send glorious high definition content to anywhere in your home over WiFi, or a wired Ethernet connection from your own existing home router.”
The hdhomerun app says it provides a free 24 hour guide. If you want 14 days and dvr requires a sub addition.