Spinning Blue Wheel Constantly! Once lightning fast Roamio feels like an old Win98 PC

Yes. Last 4-5 days. I assumed it was because the hard drive was getting filled up, including delete when space needed. That's been my general experience with Tivos forever. I try to force/delete to the point of keeping 20-25% free most of the time.

I personally have never (at least since they were hacked) thought of Tivos as storage devices. Show harvesters and playback from house network

 

When was the last time your router has been rebooted? Maybe its that time again.

 

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have you tried a (temporary) wired internet connection in troubleshooting to see if the delay improves?

 

I know my Roamio has recently started taking forever (with spinning circle) to delete a folder. It used to be quite fast (since all it does is move the directory entries to the deleted items folder, I have no idea why it takes so long).

 

I've noticed this, and also problems with the Search function the past few days; sometimes it's just the Blue Circle, and sometimes it errors out. So I assumed the issue is at the server end...

 

search failed repeatedly for me last saturday (haven't tried since).

 

seeing it here, too.

 

Oh yeah, Premiere owners used to have big problems with this a couple of years back. In time the problem went away.

 

It's @!# retarded that going into a folder of shows ON YOUR OWN HARD DRIVE causes a spinny gear..

and if you wait long enough, YOU SOMETIMES GET AN EMPTY LIST..

But I realized yesterday, that instead of going back out and back in (which will cause another spinny gear), you can "just" hit C several times to get back to your recordings..

still lame, and I wish I could turn off MOST of the network integration.

Really, the free space indicator (yes, I am one of those who think it's a VERY necessary thing, though I also realize I can be at 100% and still recording suggestions!! so it's not completely accurate), and nowadays fitting more stuff on the screen at once, are the major benefits of the HD UI. (IIRC, the Roamio could never do the non-HD UI.. and of course the 6 tuners are the greatest benefit, but that's obviously a hardware issue.)

 

I used to get a lot of the spinning blue wheels until I changed the DNS server from my providers DNS to Google's DNS servers.
Info here: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/

"Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers."

It made a HUGE difference in my case. HUGE! HUUUU-GE!

 

You might try changing it at the TiVo itself. Couldn't hurt...and you can put it back if it doesn't make any difference...but if it does...then you've discovered something. I've got both my router and my TiVos set to use Google's DNS. I rarely have spinning blue wheels on my Roamio or two Premieres...but spinning blue wheels are caused by more than just the DNS, so...solving the problem will probably take multiple approaches...

 

For the single random data point it's worth, my spinning wheel issue completely disappeared after deleting a bunch of shows to give the system some more breathing room and it has been gone for a day or so now. This is consistent with my history with Tivos.

 

Perhaps, but the current Issue is definitely a TiVo server issue and even effects the Minis.

 

For my case it was the exact opposite. Using Google DNS servers slowed me down quite considerably compared to using my ISP's default ones (confirmed by running DNS speed test programs).