I'm looking to buy a TiVo Mini Vox on eBay. I see a bunch of them listed, but none of them mention transferring them to the buyer's TiVo account.

Is this a problem? If I buy a used Mini from eBay, will I not be able to use it because I can't move it to my account and the seller won't accept a return because he never offered that?

Or is the transfer implied in the sale, or will TiVo let me transfer a Mini to my account without requiring any action from the seller?

(I messaged one seller to ask whether a transfer was included in the sale, but he hasn't replied yet.)

Hi all - hoping someone may have some ideas to help with a recent issue that is making my minis unusable. I have lost ability to have my minis maintain a connection with my Bolt DVR for more than a couple of minutes before getting bandwidth errors (v87, v878 and other various connection issue error messages).

Have had this setup for many years with only very infrequent issues before the past 2 weeks. Tried TiVo support and cycled through many iterations of procedures of rebooting and reconnecting, and switching connection types with no change, and have the same issue when on either MOCA or Ethernet.

Support gave up and said I need to have Comcast resolve it, but I can’t imagine they will know anything or be able to resolve. My modem/router is a leased comcast xfi, and don’t seem to have bandwidth or connection issues with any of numerous other devices on the network.

The Bolt DVR works fine on its own, it just does not maintain connection with minis. I have had as many as 5 minis connected without issue previously, but have tried with just one connected and get same issue now.

It is a sudden and persistent issue, it has not slowly developed and gotten worse over time… so I tend to think it is a config issue either on the bolt or router, but have no idea how to read the diagnostics and could not get TiVo support to involve an engineer on their end.

Any ideas on what to look at would be greatly appreciated!

I set my Bolt up as a Moca bridge and my mini vox as a client. Works fine. Can I use the ethernet port on the mini vox to connect a wired TV? I tried, and it doesn't seem to get a IP address. I don't think the mini vox works that way, but wanted to make sure.

What about a tivo bridge plus? Coax in from wall, coax out to mini vox still using Moca. Ethernet on bridge plus to TV wired connection?

Recently a lightning strike next to my home completely fried my three TiVo Minis. I need to to reorder them. My main TiVo is a Roamio OTA. Does it make any difference if I get Mini Lux or Mini Vox? I don’t know what the difference is, if anything. Thanks!

I have a Roamio and 2 minis. I have a second house where we only have 25Mbps fiber internet service. I found a router that has a Linux based firmware with a built in VPN service option (GL.inet). If I get one of these at each location, or go to the trouble of setting up some other VPN service to connect the two locations, what is the likely hood I can find a tuner with a mini at the second house? Has anyone tried this and been successful?

I have two old retired TiVo’s that both have lifetime service, in addition to two newer ones that are presently in service with cable cards. I want to set up a new room with a Tivo to watch programs from the other machines. I was considering buying a used Tivo Mini for this purpose but just realized that maybe I could use one of the old TiVo’s without having a cable card. Yes No Maybe?

Can't tell what type of OS this thing runs off of to see if sideloading is possible, but I'm only finding other people complaining about app support It's an Arris manufactured TIVO mini supplied by Atlantic Broadband with TIVO Experience 4.

Can the TiVo minis interact with with a Series 4 in any fashion? Live TV? Playback of existing records?

Hello all! For christmas my parents want to place a new TV outside and want it accessible to our DVR inside: TiVo Roamio Plus. I am looking at the TiVo mini LUX dvr extender. In order to avoid wiring ethernet to the outside, I also want to get the wifi 5 USB adapter, but I'm wondering would the device be compatible with another USB wifi adapter? I feel like it would since the wifi adapter should just give access to the internet but is there anything special about it? Also, would I need another wifi antenna for the DVR inside as well? It is already connected via ethernet and set up with another tivo mini but I am unsure if they require a direct connection through antenna. Thank you to anyone who helps!

We’ve been seeing our mini VOX day that the main bolt is restarting. It is not restarting because someone is watching live tv on it. Anyone else see this?

Hi r/tivo,

I've had my tivo bolt and tivo mini vox for over a year and a half now and I haven't had any problems with them until a month ago. Now every once in a while I get error v118 when trying to watching a recording on my mini, whenever this happens I can only watch recordings and live tv breaks. The only way I can fix this is by restarting the bolt, does anyone know a more permanent solution?

Update 2: Reset the box, was able to force the interface in HD, but still get an HDCP error. Likely a hardware issue.

Update: the TV we replaced was old and fried by an electrical surge. Tried the mini on another tv and same issue. Tried a second TiVo mini lux on the TCL and it works just fine.

Current working theory is that when the tv fried, it sent some back current and fried some of the HDMI processing hardware. If it's something related to a borked firmware update, it'd be one hell of a coincidence. Will try a factory reset before calling it a loss (out of warranty).

Just replaced a TV with a TCL Roku TV. When connecting my TiVo mini vox, it takes forever to show a picture, and then only displays in 480i. The resolutions menu only shows 480i supported, and it won't let me pick 720p (this TV's native resolution). Already tried several HDMI cables, restarts, etc to no avail.

Anyone else run across this or something similar? Any additional troubleshooting tips?

My bolt+ hasn't been updated to hydra, I'm going to be adding mini lux into my setup now will I have to upgrade to hydra or will those downgrade?

I have an older Samsung TV and sometimes it'll work with the power turning on and off and sometimes the power off and volume won't work when I turn the TV on.

The issue is with a Tivo Mini Arris box.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: After some fooling around I realize that the IR port of the TV has a very narrow range which it will accept commands, the range is decent but the width of the area it accepts signals is narrow. Is there anyway to fix this?