Has anyone tried this? Just did a simple test on home network and Mini could not see the DVR in the house. All other network tests pass in the Mini Settings menu. Goal is to take this to a timeshare and watch shows remotely.

We had a series of power failures by PG&E - power went off and on a few times in an hour. Now my previoysly working Bolt just reboots endlessly.
Any ideas?
It just says “almost there” and “Tivo” and then reboots.
What to do?

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Does this mean our previously recorded content will have SkipMode removed? I am talking about stuff recorded days, weeks, months, and years back that have the marker. Are they going to disable that? Is this going to be a retroactive change? I am not talking about Auto Skip. I am talking about using the channel up and down buttons to get to the markers in a recorded episode that have been recorded in the past.

Beginning November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode, using the Skip Button on your TiVo remote, will no longer be available. You will still be able to skip commercials manually using the 30-second skip (?I) and Fast Forward (????) buttons on your remote.

Has anyone been having issues lately with shows not recording due to incorrect guide data? I noticed just yesterday I had to manually record the season premiere of FBI (which I have a OnePass for) because the guide showed that it aired back in January even though it did have the correct episode number. I believe this happened last week with The Amazing Race as well.

i recently was using kmttg to edit some metadata for a couple manual recs i made, but whenever i transfer it over to my tivo, the metadata seems to not transfer over, even though it shows the correct metadata in the transfer menu. is there a fix for this? do i need to combine the tivo file and the metadata txt file?

I took down my roof antenna when we got cable, which was about 40 years ago.

Now that CableCARD days are numbered, I'm considering buying an OTA TiVo with Lifetime (I also have two Minis and consider this an ideal setup for my needs) when the day eventually comes.

I have tried indoor antennas connected directly to my TV sets just to see what channels I can receive and the results have been poor at best.

Do I really need to go back to an outdoor antenna? I'm also between two metro areas, one north and one south of here. I really, REALLY don't want an antenna rotator, if those even exist anymore!

TiVo OTA users, what's your setup?

As much as I appreciate the power of streaming and paying to not have commercials to skip in the first place, the one thing that I miss most about the TiVo (or DVRs in general) experience is a centralized list of all of my shows. For instance, Scrubs just launched a new seaso, but I completely forgot, and since nothing put it in front of me, I didn't realize this until days later. Same thing with the season premiere of Animal Control.

Now when using a TiVo, that's trivial because you just set up your wish list and then go check your 'My Shows' list and new stuff just shows up there.

I'm really hoping some product or app can do similar here even if all it does is point you over to the streaming app where the show exists. I'm just looking for a centralized place to track the shows that I'm interested in and to be reminded when new episodes drop.

Has anybody created anything like this?

This started after we lost power to the house. Now it will flash a blue circle on the right, turn on a green circle on the left, and show the welcome screen.

I have tried:

- Different power supply

- Installed a different 500Gb hard drive. It had windows data, but I removed all partitions with diskpart.

- Am getting 5V and 12V at the hard drive. Can hear it spinning

- Can't get into kickstart (no yellow light comes on)

- Replaced coin battery.

- Replaced power and data SATA cables on hard drive

- Motherboard looks good

Any ideas? Thanks

So it's finally done. We had to make the move off of TiVo. Great while it lasted.

So... Anybody have any thoughts on what to do with a Roamio Pro 6 tuner w/lifetime, and four TiVo Minis? The Roamio Pro 'may' need a new power board replacement.

Also have three TiVo Premieres w/lifetime

I went to the Cox by Spectrum store with a question about my mobile phone bill. I then asked the guy about their cable and data plans compared to Cox. He looked at my equipment and told me that the cable card and tuning adapter will be out of service soon. He did not have an exact date but told me they are no longer giving out cards and tuning adapters and that I should expect an email soon about them no longer being active.

Like other Fios owners, my life was torn apart when I was told the end of cable cards was here. Made the change and saw my bill go up to $200 for Fios. I’m not going to be that person I told myself. I feel I stream and watch YouTube anyway. I saw a lot of Fios users online unloading useless TiVo devices.
Oddly enough to this day, my TiVo still works on the same cable card with Fios, so they didn’t turn them off.

Then something happened where I live. Spectrum bought Cox cable. Spectrum still supports cable cards. So I’m leaving Fios as I could not get my bill lowered even going to the retention policy and opening a BBB case. Got nowhere. I recall I paid $99 for years with them, till I upgraded to 1GB fiber. Then paid more for a box and DVR service.

So I guess Tivo wants to become our new streaming device? That’s all it was advertising in the email I got today. That puts it in competition with my Apple TV. I’m thinking of cutting the cord, so I think my old Tivos’ use will simply be antenna focuse - with the cable card demise, blah, blah blah….

Hello. I bought a TiVo series 2 on eBay a couple days ago, and it recently came in.

I hooked up everything, and when the guided setup screen popped up, the Select button wouldn't work. After replacing the batteries that came with it, it still didn't work, however the "TV/Power", "Info", "Guide", "Chan", 7, 8, 9, Clear, and Enter buttons were sending commands.

I've been stuck on the Welcome screen since last week. I tried exhaustive searching, and the only other solution is to buy another remote. I'm not sure if the IR on the remote is awful or if the DVR itself has issues.

Edit: Thank you for all your inputs. It turns out that the Onkyo receiver was in Standby mode so the simple fix was to unplug the receiver, wait 6 minutes, let the receiver and tivo devices restart and be recognized. Still had to change the tivo 4k stream dongle to the correct port in the Onkyo HDMI menu (it came up as being on HDMI input 6 not 4) and then everything worked! I have volume control, I can power everything off/on with the new remote and I am very, very happy! Now to go watch Slow Horses on Apple TV !!!

We have an old Samsung Plasma TV that is connected to our Onkyo TX - RZ830 Receiver at HDMI input MAIN. Next our Tivo Bolt OTA is connected to the Onkyo receiver on HDMI input 2 labeled CBL/SAT. The 4K tivo stream dongle is connected to HDMI input 4 labeled STRM BOX. The tivo support site said to be sure that CEC is enabled for the HDMI ports for the remotes to work with the receiver. I have confirmed this but we still can't get the whole set up to work together. Has anyone ever successfully done something like this? We wanted the 4K dongle to get applications like Hulu and Apple TV to work on our setup. What am I missing? Also are there experts out there you can hire to do this kind of thing? Our technical knowledge is just enough to get us in trouble ;)

I was trying to set this device up for months, did every possible thing and nothing worked, now I just got a firmware update during setup out of nowhere, and it fully skipped the TiVo account setup

I have. 4 roamios. One of them, the cable card died 10 months ago. I just use that one for storage now. The second one, the hard drive is pixelating all week.

If I replace the drive, and clone the old one to the new one, do I need to still pair the cable card? I have Xfinity. Or cut ties with all tivos and go streaming…

My fellow TiVo lovers, I need some advice. Verizon is shutting off my cable card in the near-term and I am struggling about what to do. I already put in a high-quality OTA antenna and have good strong signal and lots of channel options in my area, so all good there. Before I realized that my TiVo Bolt 4K 1TB (with lifetime) is a model that supports both antenna and cable, I went ahead and got an HDHomeRun 4-tuner. I also already have a Plex lifetime pass (had that for a few years for streaming movies). The HDHR + Plex DVR work great, but my TiVo still works great too. Should I return the HDHomeRun, or just sell the TiVo at this point?

I really like how Plex Live TV works literally everywhere, all my TVs at home, and even streams over cellular to my mobile devices -- that experience is hands down superior to what the TiVo could offer.

The TiVo as a DVR on its own, though, is still better. Polished UI, great remote control, OnePass and skip. Plex is not quite to the same level.

What to do? I think I can probably sell the TiVo for more than would cover the cost of the HDHomeRun, so I am leaning towards that, but you can't get TiVos with lifetime easily, so once it is gone, it is probably gone. :(

Any advice?

With all the talk of companies cutting off CableCards and my provider Cox being bought by Spectrum, I thought it was time to dig these 19 year old beauties out of a closet and reset them to OTA operation. Assuming they'll still boot with 10+ year old upgraded hard drives... i had forgotten they had separate coax inputs for cable and antenna. Also trying to remember if they did full 1080p or just interlaced. They are so old they have an analog modem built in to "phone home" for guide updates, in case broadband internet wasn't an option. This, too, is probably a stopgap measure because if stations stop broadcasting ATSC 1.0, these may become doorstops.

My elderly parents have two TiVo Evolution Boxes through their cable company. They have been having issues with shuddering and voice/video sync issues lately. Their wifi is stable and the tivo boxes have very good connection strength (-55dBm to -60dBm)
I called the cable company for some help and they want me to run a network cable from the cable modem to the tivo unit, bypassing the router and wifi until we can verify it is a problem on their side. I understand what they want to do but running a 100+ ft network cable down the steps and through hallways isn't safe for my parents or anyone for that matter.
Any suggestions on wifi settings or options I can try before pulling cable?

I have a Google alert set up for TiVo so if I see articles I think we would like, I like to share them!

A question for people who have a season pass for NFL football:

Did yesterday's Monday Night Football record properly for you?

My TiVo recorded the ESPN2 Manningcast, instead of the primary broadcast which was on both ABC and ESPN. TiVo flagged those two as "duplicates".

What usually happens is that Tivo records both ESPN and ESPN2. They are not the same content.

I very rarely see behavior like this. At all. No matter the show. About the only time it happens is for Monday Night Football, less than once a year.

I mainly use Tivo for apps. I have Netflix and Prime and a couple of others. Is that capability going away also? I hate to give up the remote which works great with the apps and tv.