For settings screen details for legacy apps, see the following articles:
- SETTINGS screen details for TV-connected Tablo DVRs Like Tablo DUAL HDMI
- SETTINGS screen details for Network-Connected DVRs like Tablo Dual Lite DVRs
The Tablo settings screen covers basic information about your DVR and allows you to adjust your Tablo's configurable settings.
Table of Contents
- Account
- Storage, Storage Overview
- Storage, Storage Options
- General Options, Antenna Amplification
- General Options, LED
- Scheduling
- Guide
- Channel Lineup
- Surround Sound Passthrough
- Platform Details
- About, Name
- About, Firmware
- Privacy Choices, Privacy Policy
- Privacy Choices, Terms of Use
- Privacy Choices, Privacy Choices
Account
This section displays all of your account details including your email address, name and all connected Tablo devices. If you do have more than one device, you can also switch to a different Tablo device here.
Storage, Storage Overview
Storage Overview Displays the Internal Flash Drive status, capacity and the amount of storage space that is used. If you add an external hard drive to your Tablo, its status will be displayed here.
For details on how to add and format a new hard drive on your Tablo, go here.
Storage, Storage Options
Storage Options, allows you to turn the auto-delete feature on or off. Tablo's auto-delete feature will keep a minimum amount of space free at all times. This ensures that your storage never reaches 100%.
Details on this feature can be found here.
General Options, Antenna Amplification
Allows you to enable/disable the optional built-in antenna amplifier.
General Options, LED
The LED feature toggles the Tablo's blue LED light. Enabling this feature will turn the light on and disabling it will turn it off.
The 4th Generation Tablo’s blue LED will flash white if the unit is experiencing a connectivity issue.
The unit’s LED will also blink white after firmware updates until the unit has checked onto our server.
Scheduling
Don't Record Duplicates: When enabled, your Tablo will not record the same airing (TV show or Movie) more than once if a copy already exists on your Tablo's hard drive.
Extend Live Recordings: When enabled, your Tablo will automatically extend recording any live broadcasts by 30 minutes.
Guide
Edit Location:
- In our iOS and Android phone/tablet apps: This feature brings up location dialog screens to allow you to change or edit the location of your Tablo.
- In our TV-based apps: Clicking here will bring up a QR code that links you to this article on how to change or edit your location with our phone/tablet apps.
Edit Channel Lineup: This feature brings up the Channel Dialog screen to allow you to re-scan for channels or to change the selection of channels that you would like included in the Guide and Live TV screens.
Update Guide: This feature tells you when your TV guide data listings were last updated. This time should always be within the last 24 hours. If not, this means your Tablo was not able to access the internet during its overnight maintenance window to download fresh guide data. You can use the UPDATE GUIDE NOW button to trigger this process outside of the overnight maintenance window.
Channel Lineup
This screen will display after selecting CHANNEL LINEUP. It will allow you to add or remove available channels for your Tablo Guide. Before making any changes here, we suggest first rescan your channels.
Surround Sound Passthrough
The Surround Sound Passthrough toggle app is a device-level setting. This was added to assist customers whose Android TV or Amazon Fire TV devices were not delivering Surround Sound when available even when connected to a setup capable of supporting 5.1 audio. Enabling this setting should bypass this issue and ensure the correct sound profile is delivered.
Platform Details
Platform details display the app version you are using.
About, Name
Allows you to customize the name of your Tablo.
About, Firmware
Any firmware updates available for your Tablo will appear in this section. See 4th Generation Tablo Firmware Tips and Tricks.
Privacy Choices, Privacy Policy
Select Privacy Policy to take a look at our privacy policy document.
Privacy Choices, Terms of Use
Select Terms of Use to see our terms of use document.
Privacy Choices, Privacy Choices
Select Privacy Choices to bring up a dialogue on what options you have to manage your data privacy.