Tvheadend

Run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tvheadend

Enter a user and password, then enter this user and password in the browser like this:

http://user:password@localhost:9981

Replace the strings user and password with what you entered when you ran dpkg-reconfigure.

Thanks, but this did no do the trick. Outcome is the same, only the EPG and recordings slabs on browser UI and missing the settings bits. Now what?

Try editing your startup script (on debian it's /etc/init.d/tvheadend not sure about Ubuntu) and add "-C" to the ARGS variable and restart. Then view the webui and create a user with admin permissions. Finally edit the startup script and remove "-C" from the ARGS variable and restart. You should have access then.

Or you could simply stop tvheadend delete /home/hts/.hts (deleting all config) and restart it..

You could probably also look into /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/superuser, as that's the file that's supposed to be created (and re-created with dpkg-reconfigure) with the master login credentials. Stop tvh, rename that file, reconfigure, restart tvh, clear browser cache and connect.

Also, /home/hts/.hts/theadend/accesscontrol - you'll have a series of rules in here, each for a different set of permissions and users. The passwords are hashed, so you can't just change them, but you should be able to make them blank - or just change the permissions for existing users (ideally, the one you think you're connecting as), e.g, setting "webui": true and "admin": true, then re-connect. Again, tidy up afterwards unless you want that user to have these permissions.

SOLUTION: I ended up removing the whole tvheadend installation, renamed old configs under //home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/ and then re-installing and reconfiguring tvheadend back.