The Antenna picks up the signal and passes it to the Tablo device
The Tablo device sends it to your internet router
Your internet router sends the signal up to the internet to the Tablo router
The Tablo router sends it back down to the your internet router
Your internet router sends the signal to the Roku device
The Roku device sends the signal to the TV
If this is true then the sending of the signal up to the internet is the bottleneck since upload speeds are the slowest.
Antenna signal is passed to the Tablo since itās directly connected to the Tablo. The slowness is not because the signal/video is being passed outside your network, itās because the Tablo is transcoding it from MPEG2 to H.264 before starting playback, which is the reason for the the delay when initiating the watching of live TV.
I for one am fine with that because it also means it is being transcoded into a format that can be played back on almost any device.
@Lyddon Just the recorded programs. The scheduling and channel lineup information (this is essentially what makes up the ādatabaseā) is all stored locally on the Tablo. You could switch drives, and you wouldnāt lose your scheduled data.
Very good! Thank you! ā¦ ā¦
Now, by using a The TabloRipper, could I, at any time (taking the New system disk to a controlled - non recording mode), Plug the Old & New drives into PC and ADD the Old programs to the New drive & plug back into Tablo when done? ā¦ ā¦ ā¦
Iāve tried to find out if it works under Win.10ā¦ Do you know if it does?
Sort of. You canāt copy just the programs (using TabloRipper). You need to actually copy the drive itself. Thereās instructions on this forum for how to do it, but you need some fairly low level OS tools to do it.
Just ask your neighbor, who likely knows Linux for help. If not, try the neighbor on the other side. The process is very simple. If youāre Linux saavy, just boot up a Linux (boot from USB or CD is fine) and then you can copy drive paritition yourself from one drive to the other.
About the only gotcha would be change in sector size. So make sure old drive and new drive can agree on that.
@TabloTV It will come in real handy if Tablo can enhance to support the seamless transfer of the data from the old to new drive, by utilizing the second USB port. I can imagine that many people use a relatively small hard drive just to get started and would probably need expansion sooner or later.
Actually, initially Tablo only could support devices up to 2TB. The introduction of larger drive support is relatively new. Therefore there could be even be more interest just for that reason.
TabloRipper is just a way to extract recordings off your Tablo to your PC or media server. It cannot be used to migrate a Tablo set of recordings from one drive to another.
I guess I am used to Programs being developed where you donāt have to be an OS expert to get the job doneā¦ aka Friendly Program Designā¦ Set the job up & push the Go Button to get the job doneā¦
It doesnāt sound like it would be all that hard to doā¦ No need to get Fancyā¦
Make it known to clean up the old disk first, deleting recordings not wanted anymore, etc. BEFORE running the simple program to Copy remaining recordings to the Main disk!
To me this operation is YELLING to be done and is REALLY NEEDED very badly!
Maybe a little more SQUEAKING the wheel will get it done?
Afterthought: Tablo, share your (Tablo) programming tools with me and I will write it for you! FOR FREE!
