Tvheadend

First guess: what have you got defined in access control? (Configuration -> Access Control). You either need to be logged in as a user with streaming privileges or have a default user (IP range) that has these so doesn't need login.

I'd suggest we try to get you running a web browser initially, then spiral back out to XBMC - we can eliminate the addon and XBMC version that way.

Hi Prof Yaffle,

for acces from xbmc I configured a user like the attached picture. On teh WebUI i logged in with the Admin previleges as configured during setup.

Its necessary to enter any values in "Prefix" ?

Thnaks

Juergen

Shouldn't be - but you've some stray punctuation in there which might affect things. Change it to 0.0.0.0/0 just in case.

Also... can you stream in the VLC plugin in the web interface? Config -> Channel/EPG, Play. Should pop up a plugin dialogue - if nothing immediately plays, select a channel from the dropdown.

Re: access control, I think you should have a webUI user entry for any admin user. If you created (e.g.) xbmc/xbmc or hts/hts or user/password during setup, they should appear on this list. If they don't (and they don't), then no-one has admin rights to the web interface, which won't help, but you can create one the hard way:

(Assuming from here you're not on master/3.9 something - I don't have that installed).

If you can't do it in the web interface now, drop to a command line and navigate to the tvheadend config directory (e.g. /users/hts/.hts/tvheadend) and cd to accesscontrol. In here, you'll find text files named 1, 2, 3... - one per rule. You'll probably only have 1.

vi 2

{
"enabled": 1,
"username": "tvh",
"password": "tvh",
"comment": "New entry",
"prefix": "0.0.0.0/0",
"streaming": 1,
"dvr": 1,
"dvrallcfg": 1,
"webui": 1,
"admin": 1,
"id": "2"
}

Save, quit, restart tvheadend and you'll get a privileged user in the web interface (with a really simple password and complete access from everywhere - be aware).

Hi,

Streaming:
now I changed the prefix to 0.0.0.0/0 saved and restarted the raspberry pi. No change.
I can´t stream to the vlc plugin. If I selct "Play" the vlc plugin opens the window. Now I can select every channel but no video/audio ist available. The window stay black as shown in the attached picture.

Access:
When I clear the browser history and go to the tvheadend GUI (192.168.178.21:9981) I´m prompted to enter username and password. If I enter the admin acoount that is created during setup I can get acces and I can see the configuration tab. If I log in with the user acoount only, the configuration tab is not available.

The Version is 3.4

Thanks

Juergen

The System log shows these when I try to stream to the WebUI:

Jan 30 14:11:43.229 HTTP: 192.168.178.29: /playlist/channelid/73 -- 401

Jan 30 14:11:43.250 HTTP: 192.168.178.29: /playlist/channelid/73 -- 401

Jan 30 14:11:45.401 HTTP: 192.168.178.29: /stream/channelid/73 -- 401

Jan 30 14:11:45.417 HTTP: 192.168.178.29: /stream/channelid/73 -- 401

XBMC:

Jan 30 14:28:18.127 htsp: Got connection from 192.168.178.57

Jan 30 14:28:18.129 htsp: 192.168.178.57: Welcomed client software: XBMC Media Center (HTSPv8)

Jan 30 14:28:18.137 htsp: 192.168.178.57 [ XBMC Media Center ]: Identified as user tv

Jan 30 14:28:18.138 htsp: 192.168.178.57 [ tv | XBMC Media Center ]: Privileges raised

Jan 30 14:28:54.174 Service: Subscription "192.168.178.57 [ tv | XBMC Media Center ]": Skipping "Technisat SkyStar USB HD (DVB-S/S2)/: 11,347,000 kHz Vertical (Default (Port 0, Universal LNB))/3 SAT HD" -- not enabled

Jan 30 14:28:54.177 subscription: No transponder available for subscription "192.168.178.57 [ tv | XBMC Media Center ]" to channel "3 SAT HD"

"not enabled"... that normally means just as it says. Can you double-check that the adapter is enabled, that the muxes are enabled and that the channels are enabled, please.

Also - and I don't know how this works on Raspbian - but 'ubutu has a habit of moving tuners around on a reboot unless they're nailed in place. So your /dev/dvb/adapter0 may not be valid any more if the tuenr has appeared somewhere else - less likely if you've just got the one, though.

After that, you're into checking syslog/dmesg to see if firmware has loaded properly.

Other thought... the 401 still suggests an authorisation issue. Try stopping tvheadend and restarting with -C (keep the rest of the command line the same, e.g. daemon, fork, -u/-g, etc.) to turn off all authentication. I don't know how you're starting tvheadend, that said, so does the tvheadend process actually have access to the tuners?

Hi,

The command "dmesg" shows that the Technisat USb HD adapter ist found and the firmware ist sucessfilly installed.

I think that the adapter ist currently enabled and valid. Otherwise I can´t get any Muxes and Services. I has also enabled the Services and set Channel Numbers. On XBMC I can see all enabled and mapped services/channels. And only the channels that I has enebled

Tvheadend starts automaticly when the raspberry ist connected to power. This was happend direct after I installed tvheadend on Rasbian Linux. Nothings changed.

I don´t know why I get a 401 error in the log. I configured a admin user during installation. With this login I has created a user for acces from network with all permissions except the admin checkbox tagged.

Meanwhile I tried another browser, computer and an iphone. Same problem with different messages. But 401 is steady present.

I think youre right with the authorisation issue. But as a linux noob I don´t know how to start or stop tvheadend on a terminal. I has ssh connection via putty from my windows computer and can log in to the raspberry. Is there a skript or something else like "autostart this program at bootup" and are there arguments that has to be attached to the command?

Thanks for assistance this noob......:-)

Juergen

Sadly, I'm lower than a noob when it comes to Debian... I'm a 'buntu man, and while they're close relatives, they're not the same. So see if this helps, but it may be useless!

On Ubuntu, you can use sudo service to start/stop/restart tvheadend... maybe the same holds true on Raspbian. So I could stop tvheadend with this and then restart it from the command line with different options.

I can't test it for you as I'd break my live system while it's being used, but try this...

If you do a ps -eaf | grep tvheadend first, you'll see the command line for tvheadend, and you can then run the equivalent from the command line, e.g.

$ ps -eaf | grep tvheadend
hts       1933     1  5 Jan30 ?        02:52:00 tvheadend -f -u hts -g video
ian       4999  4893  0 16:28 pts/4    00:00:00 grep --color=auto tvheadend
$ sudo service tvheadend stop
$ sudo tvheadend -f -u hts -g video -C

The ps tell me that it's currently running as a daemon: the -f tells the process to fork into the background. It's also running as user hts (-u) and group video (-g).

If you need to do some testing and make this -C work on reboot, the key elements are the upstart job in /etc/init - there's a file called tvheadend.conf that physically starts the tvheadend process. But that in turn looks at a config file, /etc/default/tvheadend. The last line of this allows you to set specific command-line arguments, e.g. TVH_ARGS="-C"

By all means, have a play around and post some results back here, and I'll see if I can help!

What is the channels your trying to access? do you have a card to access pay for channels if so how is this connected in?

Sorry for no news. My girlfriend is not amused when I "paying" with the TV. So I had to wait until she´s shopping or somethinge else. :-)

@Gary : No PayTV channels. I try to access serveral Free TV channels from Germany. With every the same result.

Thanks for help...

Jürgen