Come on tablo! Two years of the 4th gen and we are all still putting up with all this S&^T! If I did my job like tablo techs do theirs, I would have been unemployed for life! Come on People! Get your “S&^T” together! If you wanted us to be beta testers for two years, then you should pay us the back wages that we so desparately deserve! Come on people! (Just sayin’)
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Can you go in-depth with your issues? So we all could possibly help?
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I’ve had just about every problem with this P.O.S. that everybody else here with a tablo 4th gen and a roku has had over the course of its existence! From connectivity issues to guide issues to all the dreaded server issues at all the wrong times! I’ve purchased a new router, hardwired tablo direct to router, played with all sorts of settings over the months, and all to no avail. Just when you think you’ve got everything right, OH,DAMN! SERVER WENT DOWN AGAIN AND EVEN THOUGH IT’S BACK UP, I CAN’T RECORD WHAT I WANT BECAUSE THE GUIDE IS ALL SCREWED UP! THE GUIDE ENTRIES ARE LOOKING LIKE A SWISS CHEESE! And all the sugar coating in the world is not going to make it work any better! When it comes to tech “This ain’t my first rodeo”! But this p.o.s. would test the patience of God! Just look at all the posts of the thousands of people that have logged problems with this turd over the past two years. I say scrap the 4th gen, and bring out a 5th gen, but not until it is ready this time. And if you have to charge more to build a much better quality product, I’m ok with that because if you offer me a defective product for $100, and a much better quality product for $200, I’ll go for the better quality one every time! Just saying.
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The real issue isn’t the Tablo hardware, but the software and how it is over-tied to working in the cloud.
I have a Legacy HDMI, and everything is working perfectly fine.
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It is mystifying how the architecture/design got approved.
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Well, things should be settling down. Are you now just waiting on Tablo to clear up the Guide issues?..otherwise, everything else is working OK? Please only the current issues.
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I had been looking for a workable solution to drop cable as I was paying over $200 a month for cable and internet. When I saw the tableau I thought it it was under price for what it claimed to do. So I spent a couple of weeks studying all the people and the problems and I got an idea that most problems were related to antenna issues which isn’t tablo’s fault. Or network or Wi-Fi issues, which isn’t tablo’s fault. So I upgraded my router to 2000 megabits which was the fastest that was available. It only cost me a little bit more and I purchased an antenna for about 50 bucks that served my area better than the one that comes with Tablo.
The setup was simple. Everything worked on my five TVs hole over a 2,000 square foot house with one Wi-Fi amplifier added.
Everything pretty much works. Flawlessly in my system with the exception of the occasional server problem or guide problem that we’ve had. My understanding is that was due to a third party contractor so that’s going to get fixed.
My point here is that the tableau is actually pretty high-end technology and it does its job better than my Xfinity cable which had breakdowns and shutdowns and lost time and programming errors.
If you’re having problems, you probably don’t have it set up right in the first place. Go back and study in tennis and Wi-Fi and get a good handle on it and he should be able to get at least 95% up time. In the 6 months I’ve had Tablo. It’s paid for itself about 12 times over.
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You consider 95% availability good?
That is over “18 days” of downtime in a year. Absolutely unacceptable!
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As long as the 5% downtime is when I’m sleeping, and have no scheduled recordings, yes, it’s great.
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@TabloTV I got my legacy Tablo a couple of years ago and acquired a couple of gen4’s over the last yearr. I did everything that you did and then some. My experiences have been relatively trouble free and were actual Tablo issues.
It helps Tablo to know the people with the fewest problems. Having a good rf front end and ethernet/wifi back end helps with narrowing problems down to Tablo.
Those of us with a stable environment who haven’t come forward should do so and volunteer to be beta testers to help narrow down real Tablo issues.
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Technology is not perfect. Neither is cable. My cable had a little less downtime but then it cost over $200 a month. So I’ll take a little down time. I can still get the network shows from apps if there’s a problem.
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Your cable provides your service from a central server. I have a tablo unit attached to my LAN. Basic functionality (live OTA) shouldn’t stop working just because a tablo server is down.
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And a big AMEN to that! And we shouldn’t have guide problems for days, either!
Robert, I think you’re giving Tablo too much of a pass. I’ve been an amateur-radio operator most of my life, and early in my career I worked in broadcast radio, so I’m not particularly intimidated by electronic devices — but the Tablo is WAY too temperamental to recommend it to the average user, IMO. I’ve owned one for more than a year; my first Tablo died shortly after the first year, and Scripps, to their credit, did replace it gratis … but given all the other problems I’ve experienced and the latest server outage, I’ve started looking around for other options.
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I agree, for the price, Tablo is quite good. I do not pretend that there haven’t been problems, but I have had comparable down time to what I had with DirecTV for which I was paying more than $150.00 a month. And, the product does seem to keep getting better.
I’ve said it before, I like my Tablo a lot, but I am excited for what Tablo could be… and I believe will be some day.
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I’m here looking at zero channel info again!!! Everything else on my 4th gen works but Tv. As I recall I bought it for over the air tv. Junk doesn’t describe the performance. Channel guide is back but missing channel 4. Way to go, almost working. FYI, I have reliable OTA HD antenna, Roku Ultra and 1 Gb service. If this continues I will dump Tablo, use Roku for free cable channels, and switch TV input to watch OTA TV from antenna input. Tablo is on notice.
I have not had this 4th generation that long. Only because amazon stopped service on the recast DVR., but this 4th generation has the ad so many issues.. that they can’t seem to fix…so to make my life easier..it’s going in trash
Agreed. Moving to Tablo saved me a lot of money, but it did expose a lot of issues with my network (cables, router) and the coax cable installed when my home was built. After getting my network to a healthy state, and running some new coax, it rarely has issues, except when the wind causes the trees to get in the way of the antenna signal.
I was frustrated to start, but taking a step back to test your network and wiring, will make a HUGE difference.
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Everything is hooked up as when I first got..the issue is with local networks all it shows is … And will will not connect to example ABC, CBS, NBC etc. when I called they said server issues…just had issues in last weekend with no service
I’ll start be saying that I agree with Robert and give my total sympathy to the Tablo team. Sympathy, because Tablo is a very complex system that depend on some second and third party contributions to work properly.
For example: my 80+ year old brain doesn’t remember the symptoms of the problem but the Roku interface suddenly broke after a Roku OS update. The Tablo users really lit up the Tablo community page over the problem. It took Tablo a few days to figure out the what Roku broke. I suspected that it had something to do with a change made by Roku to the functionality of an OS call used by Tablo. The change made by Roku is something that should hever happen.
Anyway, Tablo was forced to correct the problem at their end since Roku wasn’t about to correct a problem they created. It took Tablo a few more days to find the OS call or sequence of OS calls and test the fixed Tablo app to make sure it works.
The fixed app was submitted to Roku to post. As we used to say on the old days, Roku took their own sweet ever loving time posting the new app. About 2 weeks, while the Tablo users were burning down the Tablo board wanting it fixed.
Tablo informed us of the problem and the fact that we were put on a hold until Roku got around to posting the updated app.
After working in the industry for well over 50 years, dealing with second or third party suppliers teaches a person to handle them with kid gloves. I had to learn how to stroke egos and turn schmoozing into an art form. Yelling at a supplier can cause a project to be moved to the back of the queue.
Tablo has a lot of dependencies that can cause problems at any time.
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