Tvheadend

tvheadend expects to run under user hts by default.I don't know how Arch installs/updates, but it's probably as simple as that: the default config will always revert you back to user hts. It seems that you've installed under user htpc for whatever reason.

Two immediate choices that I see:

1. Live with it. Every time you update, go and edit this file. You could probably write a quick script using sed that simply finds "-u hts" and replaces it with "-u htpc" if you wanted it to be really easy, although editing one file is no big deal.

2. Go with the flow and configure as the package intends. Dump the htpc config and set a new one up under hts - you might even be able to move it over if you study the file ownership of your current config.

Hi

I installed TVHeadend under usual user. In my case, is "htpc". As any other service, as SpiderOAK, Teamviewer or VirtualBox, as examples. All of them save his configuration under my current user, not a new one called "Dropbox" or "Teamviewer", etc. I don't know the reason why TVH daemon is started for "hts" user, and not for actual user like the other I mentioned. And as you can see, is not only with Arch Linux. Is with OpenSUSE in my case too. I configure via web interface TVH from other PC,but I think that's not related anyway with the problem.

Your first proposal was my first thought, before posting here looking for a "easy" solution for others users, but I think that's not the best way for newbies (I would like to make them migrate to Linux the easy way).

Maybe the second suggestion is easier, despite not fix the problem for others from the beginning (in the installation). I was thinking in some change in code to avoid this problem for potential users.

Thank you

I don't know the history - it may be that hts was chosen because tvheadend was part of a bigger package (with Showtime); it may be that it was a way of controlling access to the tuners via the video group, something like that.