r/Tivo

Lucky enough to still have a system that supports cable cards.

I have a Bolt where I installed an external SATA from Weaknees — this replaced the internal drive, so it is the one and only Tivo drive. Was using the hard disk enclosure from WK for years until a few weeks ago — after a blackout, the hard drive enclosure refused to power up (no power to the drive, the fan or status lights). The power brick was good. I did basis troubleshooting, but the enclosure seemed unrepairable.

That original enclosure didn’t seem to be available, so I ordered a functional equivalent from eBay. That box has power, but the Tivo didn’t recognize it (dance of the flashing color lights on the Bolt.). I replaced the 22 pin SATA to eSATA cable, with no better result.

WHAT DOES WORK — If I open the TIVO and directly connect the 3.5 inch drive to the TIVO SATA connector, it works perfectly. The drive is too big to physically fit in the Bolt, so the bare drive sits clumsily on the side of the TIVO, so it is less than an ideal solution.

Any ideas? Unless I have ANOTHER bad external enclosure or ANOTHER bad SATA cable (possible, but seems unlikely), I am running out of ideas on how to get back to where I was before the blackout.

Been TiVo user since series 1. Have 4 TiVo roamios now all with upgraded drives. 2 of them died last year “channel not authorized”. Well, my remaining two are now displaying the same message last night.

I feel like a best friend just died…

So now I’m going to by a bunch of Roku Ultras, subscribe to YouTubeTV, and FRNDLYTV, then cancel my Xfinity once I migrate everything and binge watch everything on my x1 boxes to clear them out. Good news, I’ll save about $170 a month! Sad news, no more TiVos.

I might need therapy. The sadness is real.

edit- I have comcast. I’m screwed.

I have Xfinity and no longer can watch live television. Was told by Comcast that my cable card is end of life. I contacted them and since they no longer issue cable cards, I’m basically bleep out of luck and my TiVo Bolt is rendered obsolete. Any suggestions or should I go to another service such as direct tv stream, another evil most likely. Anyone else having this issue?

TiVo Premiere 4 channel

For the last few days multiple channels have zero guide data while others have large blocks listed as “[channel name] programming”.

I’ve forced multiple network connections, but the problem continues.

Channels affected as “TBA” include: FS1, SyFy, USA, TruTV, NatGeo, Freeform, Hallmark Mystery, Lifetime, AMC, FXX, NatGeoWild.

Any suggestions? Or is the only option to report it through the web form?

[edited to add: other TiVos have guide data on those channels]

After TiVo stopped selling boxes/accessories/Lifetime (All-In) Service as of Oct. 1, 2025, they shipped whatever was remaining in their warehouses off to Weaknees. Here's what's remaining for sale In the Weaknees warehouse as of 10/10/26:

NEW TiVo Edge for Cable, 2TB, 6 tuner ($500, incl. Lifetime): 9 units

NEW TiVo Edge for Cable, 3/6/10TB, 6 tuner ($850/$1000/$1250, incl. Lifetime): 8 units

REFURB TiVo Edge for Antenna, 500GB, 2 tuner ($250, Needs $14.99/mo service): 8 units

REFURB TiVo Edge for Antenna, 2TB, 4 tuner ($450, Needs $14.99/mo service): 15 units

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NEW TiVo Bolt for Antenna OR Cable, .5/2TB, 4 tuner ($300/$600, Needs $14.99/mo service): 5 units

REFURB TiVo Bolt for Cable, 1TB, 6 tuner ($400, incl. Lifetime): SOLD OUT

REFURB TiVo Bolt for Antenna OR Cable, WHITE, .5/1/3/10TB, 4 tuner ($600/$650/$850/$1200, incl. Lifetime): 5 units

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REFURB TiVo Roamio for Antenna, 1/2/6TB, 4 tuner ($500/$650/$875, incl. Lifetime): 12 units

REFURB TiVo Roamio Pro/Plus for Cable, 1/3/8TB, 6 tuner ($500/$600/$950, incl. Lifetime): 1 unit

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REFURB TiVo Premier for Antenna and/or Cable, .5/1/2/3/6TB, 2 tuner ($400/$500/$600/$675/$775, incl. Lifetime): 3 units

REFURB TiVo Premier for Cable, 1/2/3/6TB, 4 tuner ($300/$500/$575/$675, incl. Lifetime): 3 units

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NEW TiVo Mini LUX 4K ($250, incl. Lifetime): 43 units

NEW TiVo Mini LUX 4K 3-pack ($700, incl. Lifetime): 46 units

REFURB TiVo Mini A93 ($130, incl. Lifetime): 3,415 units

REFURB TiVo Mini A92 ($120, incl. Lifetime): 3,444 units

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NEW TiVo LUX Remote ($60): 514 units

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Does this mean our previously recorded content will have SkipMode removed? I am talking about stuff recorded days, weeks, months, and years back that have the marker. Are they going to disable that? Is this going to be a retroactive change? I am not talking about Auto Skip. I am talking about using the channel up and down buttons to get to the markers in a recorded episode that have been recorded in the past.

>Beginning November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode, using the Skip Button on your TiVo remote, will no longer be available. You will still be able to skip commercials manually using the 30-second skip (?I) and Fast Forward (????) buttons on your remote.

ETA: When I asked about whether this retroactively affects things we recorded prior to November 2nd, I was told (part of email)...
>The changes that will happened this November, 2026, Automatic Skipmode and Skip button will no longer be available; however, customers can still skip the commercials manually using the 30-Second Skip(? I) and Fast Forward( ?? ) buttons.

That certainly sounds like they are taking it away from us unless we pay them more money. I paid for lifetime. This is like buying a car with heated seats, only for them to push a software update disabling the heated seats unless we opt into a brand new subscription.

ETA2: I was not aware someone else used the same analogy before I posted the above.

We had a series of power failures by PG&E - power went off and on a few times in an hour. Now my previoysly working Bolt just reboots endlessly.
Any ideas?
It just says “almost there” and “Tivo” and then reboots.
What to do?

Has anyone tried this? Just did a simple test on home network and Mini could not see the DVR in the house. All other network tests pass in the Mini Settings menu. Goal is to take this to a timeshare and watch shows remotely.

Like other Fios owners, my life was torn apart when I was told the end of cable cards was here. Made the change and saw my bill go up to $200 for Fios. I’m not going to be that person I told myself. I feel I stream and watch YouTube anyway. I saw a lot of Fios users online unloading useless TiVo devices.
Oddly enough to this day, my TiVo still works on the same cable card with Fios, so they didn’t turn them off.

Then something happened where I live. Spectrum bought Cox cable. Spectrum still supports cable cards. So I’m leaving Fios as I could not get my bill lowered even going to the retention policy and opening a BBB case. Got nowhere. I recall I paid $99 for years with them, till I upgraded to 1GB fiber. Then paid more for a box and DVR service.

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