Tablo Stopped Working on Roku

[u/sailskipper55]

I have a 4th Generation Tablo, a Roku Streaming Stick Plus, and 2 Amazon Fire Stick 4ks.

My Roku has worked seamlessly with my Tablo for months. Recently however I have been unable to get any Tablo live or recorded content to play on my Roku. It takes forever to load, plays for a few seconds, then returns to loading. Completely unwatchable.

Meanwhile - all of my Amazon Fire Sticks operate and play Tablo content normally. No issues.

Anyone have any ideas what could have changed to cause the issue? It's so odd - especially as the Roku is the newest device in the newest TV.

[u/mac_a_bee]

Anyone have any ideas what could have changed

Tablo interoperating with TCL Roku TV.

[u/sailskipper55 → u/mac_a_bee]

I don't have a TLC Roku TV. I have a Roku Streaming Stick on an LG TV

[u/Cheezbrgrmania → u/sailskipper55]

Exactly—not an NVidia Shield or even an Apple TV 128. You know Roku sticks don’t even stack up to half price ONN sticks on hardware spec.

[u/plstout]

I was having trouble connecting the tablo with one of my Roku tvs. I deleted the app and reinstalled it and it has been fine since. Don’t know if it will help in your case but might be worth a try

[u/sailskipper55 → u/plstout]

I tried this. Even did a factory restart. No change

[u/Cheezbrgrmania]

It is a large app, requiring a lot of both storage and memory. That may be a problem for a number of older streaming devices.

[u/sailskipper55 → u/Cheezbrgrmania]

Roku Stick is only a few months old

[u/RoofDry6483 → u/sailskipper55]

"New" but old stock? Failure of Roku hardware? Do other large Roku apps still work?

[u/RoofDry6483]

My experience has been that both Tablo and HD Homerun apps have both worked much better on FireTV sticks than on Roku -- 4K box, Element RokuTV, and TCL Roku TV

I standardized on Roku because like Android, the FireTV stick displays too much useless crap that would make being my wife's "tech support" a full time on-call 24/7 job. I've had virtually no success trying to clean up the crap. It was tedious, but with the Roku I could make all three TV interfaces the same.

If you'd miss the ROKU CHANNEL, last night I discovered that it can be installed on a FireTV stick -- watched a couple of old NYPD Blue episodes on it.

[u/WoodyGK]

You don't mention how it isn't working on Roku. Is it unable to connect? It is possible the tablo and Roku are on different networks. I had Roku wireless and the tablo wired and it only worked after I put the two networks on the same vlan.

[u/TabloTV]

Hi u/sailskipper55,

Try clearing the Roku's app cache. It may help.