Tvheadend

Looks like something's gone wrong with access control. Clear browser cookies and/or restart your browser and/or try a different machine. If none of that works, you've got an "all users, no password, no rights other than to the DVR" entry that's matching automatically.

Have a look in ~/.hts/hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol (you'll need to be hts or root) - you'll find the access control files there - edit them by hand if needed and then restart tvh.

Have tried it from another "clean" pc. Same problem.
I found one file under ~/.hts/hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol. It's called 1. I viewed it, it has this information

{
"enabled": 1,
"username": "*",
"password": "*",
"comment": "Default access entry",
"prefix": "0.0.0.0/0",
"streaming": 1,
"dvr": 1,
"webui": 1,
"admin": 0,
"id": "1"
}

When I installed it I set username to: xbmc and password to :xbmc
So it's strange that it just shows lika a "*"

I have now changed the information to..

{
"enabled": 1,
"username": "xbmc",
"password": "xbmc",
"comment": "Default access entry",
"prefix": "0.0.0.0/0",
"streaming": 1,
"dvr": 1,
"webui": 1,
"admin": 1,
"id": "1"
}

But when going to the webpage, still only three options. It dosen't prompt me for username and password.
I have test this from the machine that has this software installed localhost:9981 and from another pc on the network ip-adress:9981

What is the next step?

The xbmc/xbmc bit will be stored in the file superuser - that should work as well.

All I can suggest is clearing your browser's cache, trying a different browser, trying a different system. That file looks fine from what I remember - it's the old format, but still looks okay.

The other thought is to check syslog and see if there are any errors there - maybe something corrupt and a file can't be found, maybe there's a permission error.

One thing I didn't ask - how did you install, how are you running? As an example, if you're starting from command line but not using the right -u option, tvh won't be runnign as the right user so won't be able to access the config files properly. That doesn't explain why it 'just happened', though...

Sorry for my late respond. I reinstalled the computer because I didn't have the time to troubleshot. But I installed it the same way as last time. I installed Ubuntu 14.10, then from the terminal I run...

sudo apt install curl
curl http://apt.tvheadend.org/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tvheadend

And did it install? If you're on 14.10, I'm presuming it didn't as there isn't a build for Utopic so you'll need to edit sources.list to change 'Utopic' to, say, 'Trusty':

http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable/dists/

After that, you should be able to log in as the account you created when you installed, and then set up new access control as required.

You are so right, see my old post...
https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/13961?r=13967#message-13967
I don't understand the difference between Utopic or Trusty. When I changed it to "Trusty" it could install. But is this something that will be fixed so I/we can install tvheadend without editing the sources list in Ubuntu?

Or wich linux system do you recommend?

Which Linux...? "It depends". Some people swear by Arch, or Fedora, or Suse, or 'real' Debian.

Personally, I use 'buntu (Xubuntu, specifically) because it does what I need with good support - but the new version every six months is a pain, so I stick to LTS releases. That means Trusty for me on all my systems. However, if you want latest kernels and source packages and don't mind upgrading or reinstalling in a year's time then Utopic is fine. Mint also has a growing fanbase, despite it being another Ubuntu derivative - and they've just broken from tradition so they're not tracking 1:1 with versions any more (the new Mint - 17, I think? - is Ubuntu 14.04 still).

Re: the build, let me ask and see if we can add Utopic. You're not alone with this issue.

Thanks to Mr Sutton, Utopic builds are now on the PPA. How's that for service

Ubuntu comes out with a new version every six months, and they then cease support on older versions - that's where you get Precise, Quantal, Raring, Saucy, Trusty, Utopic - they're versions 12.04 (released April 2012), 12.10 (October), 13.04, 13.10, 14.04 and 14.10 respectively. The exeption is the 'LTS' builds - Long Term Support - which don't lose support and instead stick around for several years so you can build a stable system and expect it to last. These appear every two years, so 12.04/Precise and 14.04/Trusty are the current LTS releases.

If that helps...!

Aha.. so the next time I should go for the LTS version of Ubuntu. Thank you for all information and help!