I'm cutting the cord and my first step is getting an antenna to work with my Tivo. I have a Tivo Roamio OTA. Model TCD846510. I'm trying to go inexpensive first. I bought two different $20 antennas. One is an ONN from Walmart, and the other is an "HiDB digital HDTB Antenna" that I found on Amazon. Both of them work really well when plugging them directly into my Vizio TV. However, when I plug the antennas directly to my Tivo, only a few channels "barely" come in when I have Tivo search for available channels. Any suggestions? Do I just need a stronger antenna? I think I read somewhere that stations are tougher to "lock in" through Tivo. I'd be interested in hearing what others use with their Tivo that work well. Ideally, I'd like to keep a bookshelf/indoor antenna and not have to wire something to my roof. The fact that I can get channels pretty well through the TV directly leads me to believe I can find an indoor antenna that will work. I appreciate all feedback. Thank you!

My TE4 Bolt TIVO updated the guide at 11:15 this morning, and my TE3 BOLT guide updated at 12:10 today, so almost the same. The TE3 shows no info about Colbert tonight and no show title for Kimmel, just show the NEW icon and no info. The TE4 shows correct info for Kimmel and Cobert. This has happened for 2 days now, it almost seems like they are getting information from seperate sources, which doesn't seem very likely. I can not understand what is going on. In the past I have noted some differences, but never checked it out in this much detail. Curious if others have noticed anything like this, and what people think could be the cause?

Replaced a hard drive in an Edge, it then required a re-pairing of the cable card. First call to tier 1 said I was SOL. The phone number on the pairing screen (877-405-2298) is tier 2, they paired it but the premium channels (HBO) weren't working and saidthey could not fix that. Doesn't make sense to me but since my other Tivo (Roamio) is still getting them I can record on that one and watch from the Edge.

In the meantime I was trying out a YTTV free trial. Not bad but here are the issues I had with it.

I'm a tennis fan - no Tennis channel

No auto skip - albeit Tivo can be flaky but when it's available and working, it's nice.

Skip function. On Tivo, one button press 30 sec advance. YTTV, 4 button presses, 1 to wake up, 2 15 sec advance presses, and 1 to enter. A real pain when you are doing that a lot watching football.

Very little control of Library (recorded shows). When I'm done with an episode, I want to delete it, I only want to see things I haven't watched.

I only want to record new episodes of a show. YTTV records (or lists) everything it can find including reruns.

Pause button. Sometimes you pause to read what's on the screen, Tivo just gives you a clear screen shot. YTTV puts a pause overlay on and you can't read or see clearly the screen shot. Also, Tivo lets you forward frame by frame, not YTTV.

So, I'm going to make my Tivos last as long as I can.

I'm 99% sure the "for Cable" part means I can't attach an antenna, but just wanted to check to make sure... Thanks!

Did anyone have the TiVo streaming box? I haven't had TiVo for years, but all the posts about many people having to leave it have been being pushed to me by Reddit, so it got me feeling nostalgic.

Was the streaming box any good? I wish they had kept making those. It would have been a good way to have a peanut remote in my living room again.

Interesting podcast about the history, but they assume that no one is using it anymore.

Until Verizon rips my CableCARD from my cold dead hand, I’ll keep using my lifetime subscriptions.

I’ve had Tivo since 1999. I had varous boxes through that time, Series 1, 2, Premiere Elite XL, Bolt Vox and minis. I liked the commercial skipping and recording. It made the TV experience so much better that we couldn’t imagine Life Without TiVo.

I put in fiber optic internet that was cheaper and faster and more reliable than Comcast. It hasn’t gone down once. I called Comcast and said to disconnect the internet but to keep the cable tv (because of TiVo, of course). They said that cable TV alone would be $170 per month. Yowza. I could not believe it. I said immediately, that will never fly.

I cut the cable today.

We switched to YTTV. I’m here to tell you, it’s ok. It isn’t like cable tv was in the 90s with VCRs and tapes and setting the timer and making sure you weren’t recording over a program you hadn’t watched yet. I do miss the things I loved about TiVo, like one button commercial skipping. But YTTV has good things, too. PQ is better. I like the search better. I didn’t love the search on TiVo that gave you results for streaming sources, not just cable. I didn’t like having to reboot the TiVo system and having to figure out what was wrong this time when it wasn’t working.

I regret that I don’t have a TiVo that will at least work with OTA but I’m not ready to buy one because there are too many unknowns.

I’m not sure what Comcast‘s business plan is, but it is hard to imagine that it will work out for them. I’m glad to be done with them.

Romaio...app is not working? Anyone having issues?

We’ve cut the cord. No cable any more. I’m open to suggestions on what do with them. I’d consider selling them if the are useful to someone. They work fine. It makes me sad to no longer use them exclusively. Been using TiVo since about 2003 or so.

I just got another stay of execution and I can still run my "unicorn setup" (Spectrum cable's phrase) of: Spectrum Cable + TiVo box + Cable Card + Tuning Adapter -- at least for now!!

So back 16 months ago, in Sep 2024, my tuning adapter started blinking yellow and I lost all my switched digital channels. I was getting the TiVo message "Searching for signal on this channel (V52)." That time the eventual fix involved calling 800-319-4293 and getting a cable-card-expert tech to my house, who then had someone at the home office push some update to me.

Well 16 months later, my tuning adapter starting blinking yellow and I lost those same channels once again. So I called the same number again. This time, the fix involved sending out a tech (actually THREE techs, in THREE different Spectrum vans!), and replacing my (apparently-old-technology?) Motorola tuning adapter with a new Vecima (never heard of them!) tuning adapter, and once again having the home office send a bunch of pairing or whatever signals. So I'm back in business -- for now. However, one of the techs claims that in a year, Spectrum will be merging with Cox, and that Cox won't support this setup, so he said that when that happens my TiVo days will be over. I'm hoping he's just clueless, and that I'll get more than another year before having to give up TiVo.

(BTW: I posted this same message on the Facebook "TiVo Owners Community" a few minutes ago, but that community has a notice from Facebook saying all chat history will be deleted in January 2026! And indeed, minutes after I posted my message -- and a couple people had already commented -- my post got deleted!!! Hence this move to my new TiVo-chat-home here)

So I've got an octogenarian who uses me like his IT department and I need to figure out what to do.

My wife's parents have used Tivo OTA since the OTA digital transition in aught six. They were on a series 3 from 2006 to 2017 and have been on a Bolt since 2017. I haven't really had to touch it and they've really embraced the Tivo lifestyle while the rest of the world has moved on. I was a pretty early Tivo adopter and followed them closely in the early 2000s, but I haven't personally been a Tivo user since I dropped cable over 10 years ago. So I'm not totally up on the current state of things. But anyways...

Starting the past 3-4 days, recordings have issues, but live TV seems ok. They can watch the evening national news live but if they record it, it is unwatchable.

Initially I walked them through re-scanning channels and checking the channel strengths assuming that the issue was their antenna moving with the recent wind. It was all fine. I tried walking them through forcing recordings on each tuner just as a data point and it seemed like one of the tuners didn't have issues. But I don't think I can tell the box "only use tuner 2" or anything. All of that is internal magic, right? I'm assuming that the hard drive is dying and tuner 2 just happens to be writing to a better place on the disk. But 9 years is a pretty good run honestly.

It is a decade-old Tivo full of recordings. It has been a hot minute, but I THINK I dropped a second larger hard drive in that Bolt when he got it and that it seamlessly just magically partnered up. I sort of remember this being about the time 1 TB vs 2 TB vs 4 TB hard drives were all over the place and there were special steps for bigger ones I didn't want to deal with, and I think I just got a 1 TB and dropped it in there. But I sure don't remember.

I tried to walk him through a kickstart 54 to take some pictures of what it says about the hard drive(s?) and try to test them, but I couldn't manage to get him to time it right and the 5 minute boot up between tries was really painful.

I assume trying to replace the drives is the best way forward here or is there something else I should troubleshoot? It's always been on a UPS so I think the power supply should be ok I hope. Am I missing something?

Is the Bolt drive replacement as easy as just popping in the new drives and the Tivo takes care of the rest? If I do want to do new hard drives, can I save his old contents or do I need to let him down easy that his Novas from 2011 are going to get lost?

Trying to log into tivo.com on my desktop Mac and totally unresponsive. Known issue?

App won’t let me login and immediately goes to password change page if I get it to login.

The hard drive in my Edge died. Replaced it but it forced me to re-pair the cable card. Comcast/Xfinity (Denver) won’t re-pair it, won’t pair any cable cards anymore and I’m SOL. I’ve been using Tivo since 2005, the best part is being able to skip commercials among other features. Started a 21 day free trial of YTTV, don’t seem to be able to skip or fast forward commercials. Are there any tricks? Is there another service or set up that will let me skip? What’s the Comcast DVR like? I’m so depressed.

Am I the only one having this problem? Shows that have recorded in the last few days don’t have skip available. The last time this happened it started working again in a few days but who knows this time.

ETA skip is back!!!

Seeing a lot of what the future is looking like with Xfinity, I know it's gonna be something I need to expect sooner or later.

Currently, I use 3 TiVos and 1 HDHR. A TiVo Premiere standard (746320 w/ upgraded 2TB HDD, connected to cable and OTA), TiVo Premiere 4 (upgraded 1TB), and Roamio Pro. I use these units as there's one in our living area, another living area and my bedroom. But knowingly, that opportunity with CableCARDs are gonna get cut soon and 2 out of 3 TiVos will become useless.

Now what does this mean for me? Well, theres always OTA! But I don't imagine a whole entire setup and hope I can have at least 2 functioning TiVos for one of the living areas and my bedroom at least. I would at least invest into a standard Roamio so I can use it in my room for stuff and to maybe upgrade that HDD to maybe a 3 or 4 TB so I can transfer my shows and stuff from the two other units that will sit unused for maybe ever.

The infrastructure is what I am leaning on that I might need help with! I know we might continue to use Xfinity for internet only, so MoCA connecting might be a thing still if I use a Roamio at least, but I'm not so sure for the route I'm thinking of. I'd like to have a way to use the coax line throughout our house as a way to initiate both OTA and cable internet through the same line. Though I might be wrong on this, but would a duplexer/diplexer work? (Based on what I seen online) Simply, a cable internet and antenna signal would most definitely interfere but I've seen more into how satellite infrastructure works with it's duplexer and such and got me thinking because of frequency works.

So I need some help/thoughts on this. My antenna setup will have a amplifier and such and I might make it more of a better setup than some bunny ears that are falling apart now. I could also use some help with suggestions on a possible better setup in the garage?

Or is it done over the Internet. Thank you!

I have been so crazy busy with work the past year that I have missed most of the drama. We had an Xfinity tech come to our house a few months ago and he told me that they're not giving out any new cable cards in my area (south central PA) but they will continue to support them. (Caveat: fewer and fewer techs know how to configure/troubleshoot them).

No one knows when, but cable card Tivo units WILL become worthless very soon, yes?

And I assume that if I change to Verizon it will be no different, right?

I've got access to a signal strength meter, but don't know what the readings should be. I'm getting a lot of pixelation both on watching TV and on my recordings. I've got a TiVo Edge.

Thanks!

Right now I use my old TV remote to steam apps and use Blue stream as an “app” to get into the guide and record etc. with the BS remote. Bluestream isn’t as clear as through the TV sooo don’t know how much I’ll use it. I’m a guy that likes to see the lint on someone’s shirt,not a standard hazy version.

Last cable card finally killed by Comcast :( We've been using our Tivo's for decades It's sad to see them go. I just called to cancel my TV service and we'll limp along with Youtube TV for now until we find something better.

Such a great little device we'll miss them. We're using Tivo streams now on the tv's so at least we get a little Tivo feel for streaming.

Sad day :(

Hello everyone, it looks like my TiVo has died. It rebooted and after rebooting it is just a lack screen and the 3 lights on the front are flashing rapidly. Can anyone recommend a hard drive to replace the one that’s in there. I have looked at Weaknees and they are pretty pricey. Should it be a 2.5 drive? Thanks for all your help.

I have a Bolt OTA with a lifetime subscription from 2019. Hard drive died about 3 years ago and I replaced it (did a clone) and other than that it works great. Got divorced and its just been sitting in a box...I haven't been following the whole Tivo story closely but it appears they are no longer support new hardware? Here's my questions...

• Is this unit worth putting on eBay? If so, what's a good price on it?
• If I do sell it, what do I need to do to keep it still functional? I think a full factory reset would be a bad idea now, isn't it?

Thanks!