Tvheadend

How did you install it? All of this should be automatic if you added the .deb or installed from PPA.

Try sudo dpkg-reconfigure to reconfigure the package, assuming that's how you installed it. If it isn't, uninstall it and do it that way anyway :-)

Otherwise, su to hts or root and look at the accesscontrol rules and the superuser file in the ~/.hts/tvheadend configuration directory. They're well-documented in other posts on this forum... between them, you should see what user/password combination you should be using.

I installed it from the git source. In my home directory is a directory called ~/.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol. There are three files inside that are called 1 , 2 and 3 but if I use those usernames it still doesn't work. Or in witch directory I have to look?

That's why, then - if you did a make && make install you'll only get the base config files, but you'll miss the package configuration step that would have asked you for the superuser details.

I would recommend uninstalling and building a package, and then installing that with dpkg -i - it's much safer (trust me, I've been there).

If you want to hack it manually...

What you have is the config that's been created when you run tvheadend with -C - in effect, you're running it as yourself but without access control, hence the config is in your home directory.

If you run it as a daemon, you need to specify the user (-u hts) and group (-g video) under which the forked (-f) process should run. The config files will then be under that user... you may have created them under /home/root or similar if you've just used -f, or it may have defaulted to hts, I don't know without testing.

The accesscontrol rules apply to the web interface. You should be able to see each rule defines a different user and different permissions.

You should also have a file - superuser - in the /home/USER/.hts/tvheadend directory (USER is whichever user you're running it as) that defines the master user.

{
"username": "USERNAME,
"password": "PASSWORD"
}

Thank you a lot. When i start it as a Daemon with the -u and -g arguments it wirks fine now. I also created the superuser file. So I can run it as a Daemon now if i give these arguments. Now i want it to autostart. My /etc/init/tvheadend.conf file is:

1. TVHeadend server

description "tvh"
author "none"

start on (started xbmc and enable-tvheadend)
stop on (disable-tvheadend or runlevel [!2345])

respawn

pre-start script
test -x /usr/bin/tvheadend || { stop; logger -t tvheadend "cannot execute /usr/bin/tvheadend, exiting" ; exit 1; }
modprobe dvb_hdhomerun
sleep 5
sudo userhdhomerun -f
sleep 5
end script

exec su - pi -c "/usr/bin/tvheadend -C -d"

But it doesn't work like this. DO you have an idea?

I don't know raspbmc, I'm afraid. On 'buntu, the installation creates an upstart job that controls everything in init.d.

Guessing now, but looking at that script:

1. "start on (started xbmc and enable-tvheadend)" - where are these conditions defined, do you know?

2. The "exec su - pi -c...." line - does that do what you want it to? That would appear to su to user pi and run tvheadend with the -C option again, not what we looked at above.

I found this link, which may help: http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=5634. However, I think you may need to dig back into raspbmc ... there's some suggestion that there's a default tvheadend.conf file you could have used, maybe created as part of a default option to enable tvheadend somewhere in the OS?

I'll need to defer to someone who knows raspbmc otherwise, I'm afraid.