Oh well. A real head scratcher this one. Usually these head scratchers end up being some odd back end configuration issue with your account. That's the worse kind of problem as CSRs don't have any exposure to that and can't help you.

- Tried playing with uPnP. Nothing seemed to make a difference
- Tried basically making my Verizon Router wide open all TCP/UDP ports any to any open. Yeah, didn't leave it that way for long but did force TiVO and Stream service connections
- Tried an earlier suggestion and changed the name of the Roamio at TiVo Account/Device preferences (also unchecked all the boxes) waited, forced TiVo connection and service call. Made sure that the TiVo name changed in system info and the TTG changed from a,a,a,a to i,i,i,a (not sure if this last a is telling) I am assuming since the 4th "a" is new to the Roamio systems (not on my HD's) that this related to the Stream being active or inactive. Anyone know? Could this be indicative of the Stream not getting its state toggled?

I think I am done. There were many restarts/reboots in all of this.

What I NEED is some knowledgable engineer at TiVo to give me a call...HINT, HINT!

I am afraid I am going to have to do the same thing as my window for return is ending. The part that sucks is we have already taken advantage of the expanded recording space and I have to transfer all the things on it to somewhere else. Grrr.

In the end, she finally suggested that I return the box to Best Buy and get a new one.

Well that's lame...

Did you ever hear back from anyone in the engineering department? or did you just go through the motions with support? As helpful as they can try to be, there's only so much that can be done without know what in the code casuses the status values to be printed.

At least it will be a useful data point to know if a replacement unit works for you.

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I am afraid I am going to have to do the same thing as my window for return is ending. The part that sucks is we have already taken advantage of the expanded recording space and I have to transfer all the things on it to somewhere else. Grrr.

Is there a way of doing a bulk transfer of the recorded shows to another device?

Did you ever hear back from anyone in the engineering department? or did you just go through the motions with support? As helpful as they can try to be, there's only so much that can be done without know what in the code casuses the status values to be printed.

At least it will be a useful data point to know if a replacement unit works for you.

No - never heard back from anyone in the engineering department. I asked several times for this to be escalated, but that went nowhere.

Others on the forum have sent emails to TivoMargret but that channel has gone un-answered as well.

For what it's worth, I also own a standalone stream, which I've had unplugged ever since the Roamio arrived. Today, I plugged it back in.

1) The iPad APP is smart enough to recognize there are two streams and let me choose which one I want.

2) The standalone stream works fine, and streams content from the Roamio.

That's a very interesting data point that eliminates any contention by TiVo that somehow your network setup is to blame. Since the Roamio Stream is same hardware and has same software as the standalone, this even more heavily suggests some kind of account back end configuration issue related to the Roamio. Replacing the Roamio could possibly fix the issue due to getting a renewed back end configuration to go along with new unit, but seems like overkill if that is indeed the only issue.

No - never heard back from anyone in the engineering department. I asked several times for this to be escalated, but that went nowhere.

Others on the forum have sent emails to TivoMargret but that channel has gone un-answered as well.

Excellent way to frustrate your customers, Tivo. Over at ExplorerForum.com, they have a few dedicated Ford representatives that will field calls for problems like this. This works very well and the customer feels taken care of.

At this point, I would return before time runs out. Reactivate and see if it works. Nothing changed on my network and everything is working fine now.

That's a very interesting data point that eliminates any contention by TiVo that somehow your network setup is to blame.

Well, yes and no... I've had the standalone stream since the pre-sale contest, so I set it up a long time ago, and the software has probably changed a lot during that time. Given that the Roamio's stream is failing during the setup phase and the standalone stream is already set up, it's not a direct apples-to-apples comparison.

I tend to agree with you that it's probably an account database issue on Tivo's end, and we're all stuck in a holding pattern because apparently the proper procedure to escalate an issue to engineering doesn't exist (or isn't dealt with in a timely manner).

I would also suspect those who return their Roamios are 'sovling' the problem simply by virtue of getting a fresh new database record for a new TSN.

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I just used KMTTG to move all the files in the native TiVo format over to my NAS box. The NAS box has a DLNA server which makes moving things back a snap. The TiVo sees the server and everything comes back with all the metadata and all. GigE between the TiVo and the NAS means it did not take very long to move a hundred or so Gig of files. My Roamio is going back tomorrow. Now I am just fighting with moving the Season Passes as the TiVo site does not seem to see the 60 or so Season Passes on the Roamio (oh joy!) it did when I moved them from the HD Tivos to the Roamio.

I just used KMTTG to move all the files in the native TiVo format over to my NAS box. The NAS box has a DLNA server which makes moving things back a snap. The TiVo sees the server and everything comes back with all the metadata and all. GigE between the TiVo and the NAS means it did not take very long to move a hundred or so Gig of files. My Roamio is going back tomorrow. Now I am just fighting with moving the Season Passes as the TiVo site does not seem to see the 60 or so Season Passes on the Roamio (oh joy!) it did when I moved them from the HD Tivos to the Roamio.

Just curious because I'm in the market for one....what's your NAS box?

I just used KMTTG to move all the files in the native TiVo format over to my NAS box. The NAS box has a DLNA server which makes moving things back a snap. The TiVo sees the server and everything comes back with all the metadata and all. GigE between the TiVo and the NAS means it did not take very long to move a hundred or so Gig of files. My Roamio is going back tomorrow. Now I am just fighting with moving the Season Passes as the TiVo site does not seem to see the 60 or so Season Passes on the Roamio (oh joy!) it did when I moved them from the HD Tivos to the Roamio.

Must be Netgear Ready DLNA which includes TiVo ToGo under the hood. Most DLNA implementations out there do not support TiVo ToGo. You chose well.

I just used KMTTG to move all the files in the native TiVo format over to my NAS box. The NAS box has a DLNA server which makes moving things back a snap. The TiVo sees the server and everything comes back with all the metadata and all.

Does it keep the Closed Caption after you move back to TiVo? I used ReadyTiVo and I don't have CC anymore after move out and back in TiVo.

Not sure about the CC, but as far as I know it is just moving the original .tivo file out and back, no decrypting, decoding or re-encoding. So I would think yes. I will test it when I move something back later tonight or tomorrow.

Does it keep the Closed Caption after you move back to TiVo? I used ReadyTiVo and I don't have CC anymore after move out and back in TiVo.

That problem is a TiVo bug with series 4 and later units. The captions are present in the stream following TTG transfer. The problem is for series 4 and later units if you transfer back in mpeg2 program stream container then TiVo wipes out the captions. You have to transfer back in mpeg2 transport stream container to preserve captions. pyTivo has a "ts=on" property you can enable to make sure when you transfer back that it remuxes to transport stream container when necessary.

In general if the goal is just to move everything back to TiVo and you want to preserve captions, you should download in TS container mode (TiVo Desktop and kmttg have options to turn that mode on/off). But even if you haven't done that, you can force it to transfer back and preserve captions using recent pyTivo with the above setting on.

Anyway, I think this discussion is getting way too far off topic for this thread.

Well, I got a new Roamio Plus today at Best Buy and brought it home and set it up and BAM everything works. Here is my process:

- Picked a new one that had a substantially different TSN (just in case)
- Called TiVo and gave them the new TSN and told them it was an exchange for the old one
- Checked the TiVo site to be sure the new TSN was in my account
- Attached the cable, network and HDMI first, then power (no CableCard installed)
- Powered up the Tivo
- Took it through guided set-up and said I will install CableCard later
- Waited for it to do all updates and boot into operational status
- Slide in the CableCard and went online to Verizon Live Chat and gave them the CableCard ID, Host and Data information
- Informed them they needed to do "Manually Validate Set Top Box" (all info was right in conditional access - ask me if you need more info on this)
- Tested all the channels including HBO and Cinemax, which were an issue on the activation of the first Roamio
- Went into the Netflix app which fired right up and entered my Netflix info, all good!
- Used KMTTG to move my season passes back to the new Roamio from my previous save, all good!
- Fired up my TiVo app on my iPhone, checked the box for in-house and out of house and it ran the set-up without error!!!! OMG!!!!
- Tested in-house, will have to wait for OOH until tomorrow, all good!!!!
- Forced a connection to TiVo service to get the guide info it did not seem to quite have until the CableCard was fully and properly paired
- Used my ReadyNAS DLNA with TTG support to move all my .tivo files back to the Roamio. Ok, it is still doing that at the moment, but progressing nicely.

Pretty psyched at this point!

No idea why it works now, but I can tell you for sure it has NOTHING to do with network configuration as I put my network back exactly the way it was before I started all this. It is either a hardware or an activation issue.