Numerous failures of a 2 Tuner TABLO with a WD 1 TB USB drive where usually the channel lineup grid will not populate or it will not connect from a laptop, my NVIDIA Shield, or my Samsung TV. In the last year this would not run for more than a month without a factory reset and clicking my heals 3 times and saying there is no place like home.
Tried both wired and WiFi. Would submit requests to TABLO and usually got a response so late on a Friday that I’d have to wait until Monday to respond.
Now, after doing a full factory reset which I followed the procedure to wipe out all the info on the USB drive, I cannot get it to scan for channels. It goes into the channel scan routine then in under 5 seconds returns “No Channels found”.
As the failures were so frequent, I asked the people at TABLO if I could send the unit in for repair. No was the answer.
Very true cthompgh! I used YouTube TV for Formula 1, NASCAR, and Indy Car as I could get everything else I wanted over the air on TABLO when it worked and other free streaming services. At the end of racing season, I could just cancel YouTube TV and pick it up the following year.
With all sports on hold the $50/month is a bit high IF and only IF my TABLO would work. With it not working you are right, YouTube TV is a good fall back position.
I would try eliminating the USB drive from the equation. Do a factory reset with the usb drive disconnected and see if the Tablo can scan channels.
You might try doing diagnostics on the usb drive using a pc.
Also, is the usb drive powered by the USB port? If so a weak power supply could be causing problems, if unable to service both the usb drive and the TABLO at the same time.
Even if the usb drive has its own PS the Tablo PS could be weak and it would be good to try a replacement. Such PS are relatively cheap.
That power supply might have been one or the entire issue.
Right now, after a rescan of channels, my guide is still empty but every channel is repeated. ONLY the 2nd listing of each channel plays. The first gives an error.
Since Tablo blocks that without their monthly extortion fee and can not use my Shield, TV, laptop, etc. with it anymore. It is useless hunk of junk now,
What does and does not work without the “extortion fee” is pretty clear if you read the documentation. It’s no different then the “extortion fee” you pay to Plex or Tivo.