Constant problems

It seems kind of unreliable to me. I also have problem when I'm watching a show and I do the 30 second skip and it skips backwards. The only way to fix is to exit out of the program and start it up again and then 30 second skip will skip forward correctly once again and after so long, fail yet again.

I don't want to say it, but maybe the best bet is going the Slingbox Route. using a Slingbox plugged into a Tivo Mini and a set of the correct cables, you can control and stream your Tivo Content that way much more reliably. SlingBox has been around streaming content like this for many years.

It's more money, but for reliability being away for 6 months, this may be the way to go, and use the Tivo Online as a backup, or the Slingbox setup as a backup. Either way you can get on your Tivo so you're not stuck watching the local channels.

 

Dan,

I'm really surprised to hear about your Slingbox hardware issues. I have a Pro-HD and a 500, neither of them having any direct hardware issues. I did have a power adapter fail on the Pro-HD, but I've heard that was common with the Pro-HD's. Sling replaced the power adapter at no charge.

The Slingboxes have been far more reliable for OOH streaming than my built-in TiVo Stream. The one drawback is the long latency when sending remote control commands. There is a rumor that Slingbox might re-introduce a tuner model, like what the Pro-HD had. I would love to see blend of the SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime CableCard tuner with the streaming reliability of the Slingbox.

 

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OOH streaming is a joke. They really need to get their act together to make it more stable and that damn proxy isn't helping it a single bit.

 

Got 2 sling 350s connected to our Dish receivers. We use the SlingPlayer apps on wdtv and Roku connected to tvs to watch our Dish receivers in Oklahoma while at our Condo in Vegas. They have been bulletproof for several years now. Especially in last year since we went from 50/5 Cox internet to 100/10. The picture through the sling is very good on a 60in led.

We added a stream to our Tivo in Oklahoma but with no easy way to watch on TV in Vegas it is rarely used. I'll use it to catch the Oklahoma news occasionally on iPad. Ended up with another Tivo for locals in Vegas and use the Sling when we want to watch something from Dish. Tivo stream has been a bust for us.

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How do you do this? I have teamviewer installed.

 

Thanks Dan. I wonder if there's another way by logging into the router and disabling the IP or something along those lines to force the stream to reconnect...

 

I have dynamic dns setup. Not sure how to setup the forwarding on the verizon router to access the internal IP and port from the outside.

 

FYI, for whatever reason, trying to access Stream sysinfo page from WAN side (with port forwarding set up in your router) does NOT work. At one point it used to, but not anymore. I just get a blank page in browser (both IE and Firefox that I tried). So what I end up doing is I reboot my Roamio Pro via kmttg to effectively reboot the built in stream. For that to work you need to port forward RPC port.

 

Thanks, might be a security risk if anyone could access it?

 

This is probably atypical but I can't get the stream to download a complete show on my lan without having to manually restart it several times. Some shows will never complete like movies from HBO. Ironically when I travel download works ok. Usually only takes 2 times to complete a show.

This is just crap. Stream has been out for over 2 years and if anything has gotten worse. I really like the download aspect or I would just get a slingbox. Very frustrated.

Any tips for getting downloads on lan to work? It is almost like the stream locks up and won't allow a connection for a couple of minutes. Happens over and over. Since the iPad screen goes off, the download won't continue until I restart it manually.

I am using an ipad2. Wondering if that is part of the problem. Also stream is built in to Roamio

 

I've had various TiVo's since 2001. I have had no problems with ANY of them, including the Roamio OTA that I've had since mid-2014.

Been using a TiVo Stream with my Roamio since fall 2014, to watch TiVo shows in another room on an iPhone, an iPad 2 Air and an iPad Pro.

Streaming sucks on all of my i devices above.

Same problem as described by several members above - irregularly (but usually averages about every 5 minutes), the image and sound "freeze", followed a few seconds later by the appearance of the word "Buffering" superimposed over the frozen image. Once in a great while, the buffering word disappears and the playback resumes. But, most of time, the word "Buffering" stays displayed until the popup message appears saying "Problem Streaming There is a problem streaming this show....." and listing the three choices someone earlier described.

I've tried doing all kinds of remedies, but to no avail. Sometimes I reboot my iPhone/Pad, sometimes I take the choice "Try again". Sometimes I've taken the "Download Now" option. Download NEVER completes. Nothing reliably solves the problem for more than a few minutes.

I can watch videos through Amazon Prime's video app service. It NEVER fails.

I do not know what action would remedy this situation.

I wish I could connect my iPhone/Pad hard wire to my TiVo, but I am not aware that a hard-wired connection can be made to those devices.

TiVo Stream is an unreliable product. Useless. PERIOD.