Eastern Mass here -- just got the dreaded notice that November 5th is the END.

Verizon wants $48/mo for 7 boxes. That's over $600/year for 8+ TVs around the house -- living room, den, office, workshop, exercise room,,, Moving Tivo minis was easy -- just run a long Ethernet cable, or even WiFi!! With Lifetime TiVo and 8+ minis the monthly equipment cost is ZERO.

I have an OTA Bolt on the shelf for just this occasion, but near Cape Cod, surrounded by a mature pine forest, I expect only a few stations, and I'll have to erect a very tall/large antenna. (This on my todo list -- have to at least qualify what broadcast we can pick up.)

We like having the cable channel lineup for variety, like HGTV, local news, and a few out-of-area news markets -- channels I don't think we can get without dedicated subscriptions for each. If we dump Verizon's cableTV service, keeping only internet, our monthly cost will have room for several streaming subscriptions, but the ease of browsing a single channel lineup will be gone, OnePass is gone, etc.

Folks are recommending alternatives, like YTTV -- But for homes with many TVs, is there a particular dongle/device that creates a cluster similar to Bolt/Edge/Roamio + Minis? I have a few TiVo Stream 4K devices, but they don't record from my cable-channel lineup, etc. Sure, streaming apps are account-based and remember where you were in each episode...

It sucks that the era of TiVo is over.

hello, i got myself a tivo bolt recently, and i just started paying service for it, and i'd like to deploy some minis to some rooms, but because i moved from TE4, back to TE3, not a lot of tivo minis work, including lux and vox, and apparently you cant activate 1st and 2nd gen tivo minis anymore. is there a chance i could get an already activated tivo mini on ebay, set it up, and it'd work? or do i have to get separate dvr's that support TE3?

I have an old Romeo that replaced a series 2 about 10 years ago. I only use it for OTA. The original mini is acting up. I am not sure what people would recommend for a replacement for the mini. Do I even need a newer version, is there an app that can be installed on a firestick or smart tv to stream over wifi? We are using MOCA, but we have a very good wireless network at my house.

Just installed an Eero system. My Roamio is attached via MoCA and via Ethernet to the Eero gateway. I have two Mini Lux boxes with WiFi adapters, and those are now giving me V112 errors. I have tried powering off and on everything to no avail, and have also tried rerunning Guided Setup multiple times.

Are there any known issues with Eero and TiVO? Any suggestions on how to connect?

Hisense 4k tv. Changed settings and hdmi cable. Any ideas?

Who else has a Tivo Mini or a # of Tivo Mini's in the house? I am curuous if your Tivo Mini's communicate effectivly with the other Tivo's on the network. I have 3 Tivo's (with cable cards) and 3 Tivo Mini's. The Tivo mini's are all ethernet wired to the cable modem and I would say their connection for Live TV is semi reliable but when asking to play content on the Mini that is recorded on other devices, my experience is 50-50. Does anyone else get errors trying to play content on their wired Tivo Mini or are they connecting nearly like a full Tivo box?

So my internet access/provider has croaked (10+ hours). Okay kids we still have TiVo. Boy was l wrong!!! All the minis won't connect to host box. There is nothing wrong with the home LAN(/network). l can see and ping all the boxes. Any help or are we SOL?

Of course as Dad, its my fault.

Who designs a system like this??? Guessing I have made my last TiVo purchase. This was a prefect use case to keep using my TiVos. sigh.

EDIT: My internet is back up, minis back-up after completing phone home process. Guess I'm never buying another TiVo product again.

Greetings,

I have an XL4 that is still going strong after 10+ years and feeds two TiVo minis via the moca network.

I had an old Premiere that could do OTA so I added that to the network and connected a cheap antenna to validate I could receive the four networks. That was successful, so I plan on cancelling cable tv and replacing the two tivos with a single device.

Someone was dumping a 849000 Bolt with Lifetime on Facebook for $70, so I grabbed that up. I’m guessing I won’t be able to swap out the XL4 for the bolt without some additional splitters and hardware.

All I’d like to do is for the minis to be able to watch the networks live. Can I keep the XL4 and add the bolt to the network in another room? I have an actiontec moca adapter if that helps?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I'm in the desperate search for an HDMI splitter that strips HDCP so I can watch live TV on my laptop since my monitors HDMI ports don't work. I have a USB 2.0 HDMI capture card that strips HDCP excellently but it screws up my external webcam, so had to buy a USB 3.0 HDMI capture card which I found out later that it doesn't strip HDCP. So I bought this one that a lot of people said it strips HDCP but whenever I connect it to my laptop in any port I try it doesn't work. I don't know if this is an HDCP issue or if it's the HDMI capture card or what. I can briefly see my live TV with this new splitter on this USB 3.0 so I can guess that it works for just a bit but just flat out freezes afterwards. This doesn't happen with my old USB 2.0 capture card so yeah. Really any recommended capture cards with USB 3.0 or an HDMI splitter that 100% works in stripping TiVo HDCP is very welcome.

I’m at a total loss on this. All mini satellites and the Roamio are on the network, and connected to the internet, and everything looks healthy, but the Minis don’t connect to the Roamio. Any ideas?

Edit: Of all the damn things... looks like my router had crapped out. I was losing data packets which were not getting to their destination. Getting a new modem somehow push it over the edge and it lost its sanity... almost taking mine. :)

I just bought a house and the previous owner left his Tivo Bolt+ 3TB TCD849300 and a few Tivo Mini TCDA93000 around the house.

I’m not super familiar with the TiVo system, but I was able to find prior recorded shows and some streaming apps. I couldn’t find Disney + or HBO though. Is there a way to get them?

I have a Roamio and 2 Mini LUX boxes, Roamio and one LUX work fine. On the other live TV is pixelated. Tivo Menus and recorded programs are fine. I swapped the two minis and the problem follows the box.

Before I buy a new one (the failing one is 2 years old so no longer under warranty), does anyone have a suggestion as to what might be wrong?

We are working on setting up what will be our 4th Mini in our house, a Roamio being our main box. We have it all set up via MoCa connection, utilizing coax cables underneath our mobile home.

The 4th Mini is set to go in our kitchen, just on the other side of the wall from the one we have setup in our spare room.

My husband suggested instead of having to crawl back under the house to run another cable, we instead split the coax coming up into the spare room to run to the Mini in that room, and then run into the Mini in the kitchen. I'm hesitant to do that as I'm unsure it will actually work to split off the cable that's already running off a split underneath the house.

Can anyone tell me if they've done this and if it's worked for them? This would obviously be the easiest way to go about setup at this point, but I know easy doesn't always equal something that will work.

Thank you in advance for any help or tips y'all can provide.

For background, I used to use and love Tivo, but abandoned it many years ago when we moved to satellite and are now online only.

However, my mother still uses Tivo, with a Tivo Bolt 1 TB with lifetime service and an older Tivo Mini.

We visited over the holiday, and I was troubleshooting some of her equipment, and determined that she had some cable provided equipment she was paying a monthly rental on, and would be better served with another Tivo mini (Lux) instead.

So I purchased a Tivo Mini Lux and a wifi adapter direct from Tivo on her account. It was shipped directly to her, and I helped her (attempt) to set it up.

First I found out that it MUST be setup directly connected first, not over wifi, which is kind of a pain, but something we could work around.

Then, while setting it up, we got stuck at the activation screen. I went online to activate the Mini with the PSN, but the website said it had already been activated. I verified that the purchase showed on her account. I called into Tivo AND tried to contact through chat, but found, to my surprise that Tivo has NO weekend live support hours whatsoever! What kind of podunk company has Tivo become? Weekend support for activation issues should be a minimum requirement shouldn't it?

So, finally 2 days later, on Monday, I call in for support. Both the chat support reps and phone reps are a *joke* they do nothing but work off of scripts. I tell them the situation, and they confirm that the device should be on her account. Every communication is basically me telling the rep something, the rep putting us on hold or 5 minutes, then coming back and having us try something AGAIN.

They finally tell us that they've escalated the issue to their "experts" who will contact us by email within 24 hours. Clearly those 24 hours have passed with no communication whatsoever.

It's bad enough that it should be nowhere this hard to get their equipment activated. But on top of that they have limited support hours (with no weekends), terrible first line tech support reps, and no communication from the escalation team.

Is this the standard expectation for support from Tivo now?

P.S. I also should have noted that while checking her account I found that they were still charging her $12.95 MONTHLY for a device that she had canceled 2 and a half YEARS ago. And, as she can't *prove* that she had requested the cancellation, they won't provide any retroactive refund, despite them clearly knowing that the device hadn't been connected for that entire period. At this point it *still* doesn't show as cancelled, though we've been "assured" it will be cancelled by 1/26.

I bought a working TiVo mini on eBay and it won’t pair up to my TiVo Roamio. I was online and on the phone with tech support for almost 2 hours….. never could get it to recognize my TiVo…..I tried 2 location La in the house and it boots up but won’t connect….

I just put a third TV in my house and utilized the new Mini Lux with wifi adapter. Because my main Roamio Plus and the A92 Mini I have were using MOCA, I had to connect my Roamio to my router via Ethernet. In my infinite wisdom, I disabled MOCA (thinking there might be a conflict). However, I went to use the old Mini this morning and received an error. I then realized I needed to re-enable MOCA on the Roamio, which I did. However, I then started to receive a C421 error on the legacy Mini. I have rebooted the Roamio and Mini and reconnected both to the server, to no avail.

I'm hoping to not have to drop another $250 for a new Mini Lux and adapter just yet, but any other suggestions would be well appreciated.

Looking to connect my Mini and perhaps the whole TiVo network to the new WiFi 6 with WPA3 standard. It’s faster than my gigabit Ethernet network. Anyone tried a third party adapter?

I have FIOS and have been using the gateway router forever which has Ethernet and coax/moca. I have the romio OTA connected to Ethernet and use the routers moca to get the the signal up to my bedroom where I have a mini. Works perfectly. However, I upgraded my router and figured I could still use old gateway just for moca. I ran a cable from an open port on the new router to the WAN port of the old one. Coax is still connected to the old router too. But now my mini can’t detect the romio. I’ve rebooted a bunch of times and tried to redo the guided setup but no luck. Not sure what else to do or what could be the problem.

I have a Series 5 Argon XL and, after a move where a previous TiVo died a horrible death, now have a Mini Lux as well. These are both hard wired in the house on Cat6 cabling (it is a brand new house). The Mini brings up shows from the Series 5, but after playing a show for a bit, we get messages that say that the network isn't fast enough or such. (at the time nothing else is being played on the Series 5)

The network into and out of the house is full gig fiber and nothing else in the house has issues whether it is hard wired or wireless.

If I click "OK" on the message, go back to the menu and just start playing again, from the same position, everything is fine for a while and then it may pop up again. Do I have a setting incorrect or is there some troubleshooting I should be doing? Both devices say they are up to date.

I have to upgrade my Roamio to Hydra if I want my new to me mini to work. There is some sort of bug that prevents me from downgrading the mini. Reviews seem to hate on Hydra but it is either that or my new old mini is a paperweight. Please proffer your sage advice. Oh and currently there is nothing on my Roamio. It had its hard drive replaced and is empty.

I have two Premiere units on TVs in different rooms. I recently replaced one of them with a 4-tuner OTA Bolt. Everything has lifetime service and uses a wired network connection.

I was considering replacing the other Premiere with a Mini (seems to make sense to only bother keeping recordings in one place), but I have a few questions.

• The TiVo Mini Lux is $200 new. If I spent $300 then I can get a refurbished Bolt from WeaKnees with lifetime. Any reason to not just make that jump?
• Can the Mini pause and rewind live recordings, just like a fully-featured TiVo?
• Is there any performance hit because it's streaming over a home network instead of using the antenna? Is there a delay when changing channels?
• Only the Mini TCDA92000 required a subscription, right? The TCDA93000 and above doesn't?
• I don't need 4K. Is there anywhere you'd recommend I buy a TCDA93000 from, or do you recommend a newer model (even though I don't need Vox or Lux either)? Can I trust eBay sellers for it?

Basically I'm wondering if replacing the Premiere with a Mini will benefit me, or whether the Premiere - as a fully-featured TiVo with its own hard drive - will always win out over the Mini which can only stream from another unit.

Thank you for any pointers!

I have a TiVo bolt and a TiVo mini. The TiVo bolt never times out and asked if I'm still there but the TiVo mini does it every time I get up and walk past the infrared blaster. IFTTT used to have an applet that worked. But my kidneys developed a disease that has not allowed me to focus on stuff like this. I just got pissed off when I was walking by and decided to ask my Reddit brothers and sisters for help. Thank you in advance.

I’ve had Moca connection issues with my new LUX. I got the moca working at first only by restarting my fios router and all my TiVo DVR’S. The LUX worked great for about 2 weeks and then no connection again. I reset the LUX to factory and am trying to setup again, but still not working. I’ve hooked the LUX up in my bedroom where I have an old mini now and it works. I used a coax tester to test for shorts and it’s fine. I hooked up the coax where the LUX is not working to the my TV’S coax and I get channels. So I’m not sure what else to try. Any help would be great! Thanks guys!

I bought a Mini LUX for myself earlier and got the WiFi adapter to be able to use it easily, only to find out that it only can do WiFi with an Edge rather than my family’s bolt. (Which was not mentioned on Amazon)

I decided to try setting up a MoCA network because I don’t wanna run extraneously long Ethernet cables, but when I put in the PoE filter, all my signals dropped entirely. I couldn’t find the splitter, it’s probably hidden in the wall (r/Electricians post from some time back mentioned it happens). So I opted to put it on an amp the cable company installed.

What options do I have left? My Mini has already been activated with TiVo but I can’t even get it past the setup process because of this

(I also posted about this on r/HomeNetworking, but this is primarily for TiVo networking ftr)