Advice on my Roamio Plus

I am looking to purchase a tablet and am trying to decide on a brand. My understanding with the Roamio Plus is that it does not require extra hardware to stream, so long as the show is not copy protected (boo hiss FX and AMC). Is that correct? And does it matter if I buy an Android tablet instead of an iPad? I'd rather not spend so much on something I won't likely use that often.



I have a Roamio Plus and I've tried putting a tivo app on my Samsung laptop and it won't stream to that. When I try with my phone (Samsung S5) it says something about setting up my streaming device, I haven't done that yet but will give it a shot this weekend. It says "Not able to set up TiVo Stream" -- which of course, I don't have, since I have a Roamio Plus and I 'm told that feature should be integrated into it since it's a 6-tuner device?



I found all the instructions in the box a bit confusing, so hoping someone here can help me find some clarity.



Thanks,

Stephanie

Premiere 4 thinks it's a Premiere Q

Sometime last fall, my Premiere 4 box started showing up on my other Tivo's as a Premiere Q. I first noticed it when my Tivo Premiere (2 tuner) could no longer find the Premiere 4 in the My Shows listing and the Premiere 4 couldn't find the Premiere 2.



A Premiere XL4 and an old Tivo HD could see both the Premiere 2 and the Premiere 4 but the Premiere 4 was listed as a Premiere Q.



I couldn't find anything on the Tivo support site or in our forums about this issue but I'm assuming a software update changed the 4 to a Q. I called Tivo support and got a :confused: response from the rep and a, "That can't happen. The Q isn't a consumer device." answer.



I was just wondering if anyone else's 4 has changed. Thanks in advance for your responses.

Mini setup router and switch

I'm interested in getting a mini but I don't want to buy a MoCa adapter and would rather use ethernet. My question is if I have one lead going from the router directly to the mini, and then another lead going first to a switch, then to the Roamio (base model, 4 tuner, using only OTA) will that setup work, or do both devices need to be directly connected to the same router (or same switch). Thanks!

Why do Netflix, etc. play fine over 85 Mbps Powerline but TiVo does not?

The question says it all. I've used the older 85 Mbps Netgear Powerline gear for several years to connect my TiVos and other equipment. Video streaming has been a secondary priority, but it works well for streaming Netflix and other services on my Roku 3 or on the TiVos. More recently, however, I was trying to use it with a Mini in a location where there is no coax so MoCa isn't an option.



Programming on the Mini starts to play fine but after a 30 seconds or so the video and audio become choppy. I've now upgraded to 500 Mbps Powerline equipment so this is no longer a problem for me, but I still don't understand why the streaming services worked fine with the older equipment but content from the TiVo did not. Is it simply a matter of different video formats or compression?

Premiere upgraded with 3TB WD AV-GP; total HD capacity?

Hello all,



I just upgraded my Tivo Premiere drive with a 3TB WD AV-GP drive. I cloned the drive with the Ross Walker instructions using the Premiere JMFS Linux Boot CD ISO.



The process went very smoothly and took just over 2 hours to clone the drive, expand, and supersize it.



The final volume boots in the system perfectly and reads that I have 401 hours of HD capacity. With calculation I came up with a total of 421 hours (properly using binary 1024, etc.) and the new Roamio 3TB system says it has 450 hours.



I just wanted to check that my 401 hours is inline with what others were seeing with their 3TB upgrades? Not that I'm complaining . . . 401 hours is far more than the previous 45 hours. ;) I know the Roamios boot from flash, so is this where the extra space went?

Do you have too many spare Tivos?

Worth an ask :)



Willing to pay (but please don't rip me off if it's one you've previously had for free!) :D



Seem to have missed out on a few that are going spare on here :( :( :( :down: (someone's hoovering them up i'm sure :confused: )



Network card and harddrive would be a welcome bonus (as would the little IR things as the one on my current one is knackered and the blaster isn't always 100%)



edit: I'm north staffs / south cheshire incidently :) happy to pay postage tho obviously

Signal issues

Been having signal issues again. Tuner 1 is barely getting any signal and snr jumps from 9 to 21 and back over and over. Tuner 0,2 and 3 all have 90% and 36 snr. Comcast tech came out and put in a new splitter and then replaced the line from the pole to the box (squirrels had done some chewing), checked the line from the box to house entry (it was fine) and replaced the line from the wall to my roamio. All the cables read good for his tests.



Any other ideas? I'm stumped, he suggested sending out the supervisor with some cable cards as a last ditch effort. I'm starting to think I might have to replace my roamio.



Oh, and of course, my mini always picks tuner 1. So my second TV is useless for live viewing.



Thanks, Ed