Tablo Meets Home Assistant

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Tablo Meets Home Assistant — control your Tablo 4th-gen DVR (cold TV → watching in one tap)

I have a Tablo 4th-generation OTA DVR and wanted real Home Assistant control over it — not just "launch an app," but actually go from a dark, powered-off TV to watching live channel 2.1 with a single tap or voice command. I couldn't find anything that did it, so I built a custom integration. Sharing it in case it's useful to other Tablo + HA folks.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Repo: GitHub - dgshue/TabloHARemote: Home Assistant integration for Tablo 4th-gen OTA DVRs — change channels and go from a cold TV to watching live in one action (with Roku). · GitHub

What it does

  • :locked_with_key: Logs in with your Tablo account and auto-discovers your device — no IP hunting.
  • :television: media_player entity with your whole channel lineup as selectable sources.
  • :1234: Current-channel sensor showing what you last tuned to.
  • :satellite_antenna: set_channel service — tune by channel number (2.1) or identifier.
  • :rocket: The fun part: point set_channel at a Roku and it powers on the Roku/TV, opens the Tablo app, and deep-links straight to the live channel — all in one call. No multi-step script gymnastics.
  • :house: Multi-Roku aware: one Tablo, many Rokus — send a different channel to each.
  • :speaking_head: Plays nicely with scripts and voice assistants (Alexa/Google via HA Cloud).

One call, cold TV to watching

action: tablo_remote.set_channel
data:
  channel_number: "2.1"
  roku_entity_id: media_player.living_room_roku

Drop that in a script, expose the script to Alexa, and "Alexa, turn on Watch News" brings the TV up on the channel. I use it in a "Morning" routine that dims the lights and starts the news.

Install (HACS custom repo)

  1. HACS → ⋮ → Custom repositories
  2. Add https://github.com/dgshue/TabloHARemote, category Integration
  3. Download, restart, then Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration → Tablo Meets Home Assistant, and enter your Tablo account credentials.

Requirements

  • A Tablo 4th-gen device + account, on the same network as HA
  • For the Roku power-on / app-launch / deep-link features: the Roku integration installed with your Roku as a media_player, and the Tablo app installed on that Roku

Notes / honest caveats

  • Current-channel state is optimistic (what HA last commanded; resets on restart).
  • No re-auth flow yet — if the cloud token expires, remove/re-add the integration.
  • Built on the great API spadework in tablo2plex — thanks to that project.

Still early days, so feedback, issues, and PRs are very welcome. If you've got a Tablo gathering dust because it was hard to automate, give it a shot and let me know how it goes. :raising_hands: