r/Tivo

Can't advance beyond the welcome screen. NOT getting the 4 blinking lights of death. In fact, all I get are the green light at far left, and the green light at center logo, and they stay solid. No other panel lights come on. The screen briefly goes black every 10 minutes or so, which I believe is a reset.

I formatted the original hard drive in NTFS. I swapped to a known good 2.5" drive formatted to NTFS. I tried a different power supply that I have rated for 12v 3a (original is 12v 2a).

Any suggestions on how to proceed? I'm assuming it's not the power brick since that's indicated by all panel lights flashing? A bad mainboard? I'd hate to give up on this, as it has a lifetime subscription attached.

After receiving the doomsday email on 12/17/2025, my Verizon Fios cable card was deactivated 4 months later, almost to the day, 4/16/2026.

As a TEMPORARY measure, I got the Fios DVR.

As we all already know, it's bad, really bad.

No wish list, nothing but the basics of basics.

I will most likely get DirecTV Stream or YouTubeTV.

Q: Is there any way to get my TiVO shows off the Weaknees hard drive, so I can watch on a laptop & recycle my TiVos: Premier & Bolt?

I am sad.

As a former BlackBerry & Palm Treo owner, I can't believe some companies with great products, mismanage themselves right out of existence.

"We call it the iPhone."

Onward.

Over the past week, about 2/3 of my Tivo channels have become garbled or just un-tuneable. When I go to DVR diagnostics, they're all channels with a frequency less than 300000 Khz.

I have two TiVo Roamio Pro units. I use the website interface to transfer a recording from Tivo 1 to Tivo 2. I can see both from the web interface and from Tivo 2 that The transfer is in progress.

Then the dot changes from dark blue to light blue so I know that the recording transferred.

And I can't narrow down the circumstances, but sometimes the recording will mysteriously disappear from Tivo 2.

There are only two people in my house and neither one of us deleted it.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

TLDR: When you cancel cable, take back all equipment, not just what they ask for.

I got conned into giving up my cable card (and connected tuning adapter) three years ago, but they never asked for it back (and considering they long ago closed the only office close to me, I wasn't going to go out of my way to return them). When I finally cancelled my last Spectrum service this week, I asked specifically what needed to be returned, and only the internet equipment was mentioned. I also received an email saying the same. Then no sooner had I dropped that off at a UPS Store, I get an email saying now they want the tuning adapter too (no mention of the cable card but I'm sure as heck going to bring it as well). I found that surprising considering how hostile they are to cable cards. Do tuning adapters have some other use that they'd want it for? Or maybe it's just expensive equipment that they want to write off?

What would you do?

This scenario is more around how much the TiVo experience means to me.

• On Xfinity net/cable TV plan = $160/mon
• Various affilitations "free": Hulu (ads) + Netflix + Paramount (ads)
• I pay individually for AppleTV $100/yr
• So all in about $168/month

vs. Cutting cable TV:

• Xfinty Internet = $80/mon for 1gb speed
• Various affilitations "free": Hulu (ads) + Netflix + Paramount (ads)
• AppleTV = $100/yr
• All in $88/month

TiVo Bolt (1080p) +4 Minis work great & nothing like the time shifting in every room, peanut remote, Classic TiVo schedule grid, and different types of skipability.

Until that eventual day when it doesn't work & I cant get a replacement Cable Card.

If I go without TiVo & DIY my own "programming" thru streaming I wouldn't have live TV but could piece most every program I watch together esp. since I don't watch live sports enough or even one sitting (skipability has made me ADHD I think LOL).

And if I needed to add live programming thru streaming I could add it for <= ~$20/mon; so still would be $108 or savings ~$60 vs. no live = $80.

*UPDATE*: Adding Hulu Live is prohibitive more expensive: Addl $89 a month. So basically streaming non-live events is the only real saving proposition.

Bascially asking you die hard TiVo supporters - which I am one and while I am not made out of money - if I should stick with the status quo until something forces my hand or be proactive to save $ but requires some more piece mealing?

Appeciate any feedback/thoughts.

So I just bought a new hisense U6 75 inch tv. I cannot for the life of me get it to recognize my Tivo evoforce1 box. I tried another box, different HDMI, changed the CEC settings on both the tv and the box to just about every combo I could, changed the resolution on the box down to 720 60 Hz, factory defaults, reboots. I just cant get it to work. I know the HDMI ports are fine because I can connect my laptop to it and it works just fine. Im really at a loss here and am about to loose my mind. Thanks for the help

Edge lost all recorded shows but still had Onepass list and was creating todo list but when a show came time to record it did not record. Could record a live show manually. Did a warm boot, then cold boots multiple times, then a non-delete guided setup, none of those worked. Deleted everything and then guided setup, that did it, what a pain. Any idea what might have happened?

I have an OTA Roamio. For the last 4 to 8 weeks, I don't know what the heck TIVO software call themselves doing but it seems almost every time I turn around these days, either the voice remote features "aren't available " or the TIVO has a sudden, unexplained, prolonged delay to react to remote commands. (And no, it's not the batteries!) Today, the latter happened once again and the whole TIVO rebooted itself (not the first time this has happened recently either). The remote, at least for the moment, now works as it should pointing to a software glitch. This has been going on for weeks now. I'm sick of it.

Hey so I've had a Tivo in storage for many years, finally pulled it out to copy the recordings to my pc and strangely enough no signs of life? Swapped the power supply it still wouldn't turn on fan wouldn't spin or show lights on the front,

then I swapped the motherboard from another Tivo and it actually fired up this tells me it was probably the motherboard but it looks fine?

no signs of damage anywhere I'm not sure how to repair a motherboard and looks like weakness doesn't repair series 2 tivos anymore so really what are my options here?

For several weeks now, both in the Tivo guide and in My Shows, one of my Bolts(TE3) is showing all the 2026 Euphoria episodes as being season 3, which is correct, but my other Bolt (TE4) is showing all the 2026 episodes as season 4. I have noticed occasional discrepancies between the 2 guides in the past, but never to the same degree as with Euphoria.  It seems to me to be a coincidence that the season and the TE release are the same 3 or 4 as the season, it seems more likely that each Tivo is getting guide info from different sources.  Is anybody else noticing this or any other different guide info in your boxes?