Tvheadend

On any 'buntu base, it should be hts:video. This user and group membership should be defined when the package is installed - if not, I think dpkg-reconfigure should force the issue by effectively starting again (not quite as brutal as removing, purging and re-installing, which would also work).

How'd you install it? Are you compiling yourself and, if so, are you building a .deb or just the executable? The Autobuild.sh script is the safest option if you are building for any Debian-alike OS.

EDIT

It's a lifetime since I installed it afresh, but I believe that initial package config should also create the superuser account, which you can then use to log in from any PC that can access the web interface.

Hi there prof,.. tx for reply,..this was a clean install of kodi ubuntu,.. and I used the tvh wiki install instructions... no fiddling no compiling just simple install. ( I used the sudo apt-add-repository http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable line)

Curiously,.. when I installed via ubuntu,.. I was prompted for the account and passwd,.. but under the kodi-buntu install I was not,... although I did go back later an do it, but that did no immediatle fix things... but tvh still insists on running user/video.

when installing kodi-buntu,.. hts is a default account,.. my user is happy to read the adaptors,.. but hts user does not,.. it is refused,.. so errors in RED when run from the command line with -C.... access denied stuff.

regards

Mark

I can only suggest checking how tvheadend is started (sudo service tvheadend start/stop/restart), or checking the defaults file (/etc/default/tvheadend) to make sure it's daemonising properly on startup.

$ sudo service tvheadend status
[sudo] password for <user>: 
tvheadend start/running, process 1841

$ cat /etc/default/tvheadend
#
# Default configuration for tvheadend
#

# TVH_ENABLED
#   set to 0 to disable upstart job
TVH_ENABLED=1

# TVH_USER
#   if set to "" will run as root
TVH_USER="hts" 

# TVH_GROUP
#   if set to "" will run as root
TVH_GROUP="video" 

# TVH_CONF_DIR
#   if set to "" will use ~TVH_USER/.hts/tvheadend
TVH_CONF_DIR="" 

# TVH_ADAPTERS
#   if set to "" will use all available adapters
#   for select adapters use comma seperated list of adapter
#   numbers, i.e. to use /dev/dvb/adapter0 and /dev/dvb/adapter1 only
#   set as "0,1" 
TVH_ADAPTERS="" 

# TVH_IPV6
#   if set to 1 will enable IPv6 support
TVH_IPV6=0

# TVH_HTTP_PORT
#   if set to "" will use binary default
TVH_HTTP_PORT="" 

# TVH_HTTP_ROOT
#   if set to "" will use binary default
#   else will change the webui root context, useful for proxied
#   servers
TVH_HTTP_ROOT="" 

# TVH_HTSP_PORT
#   if set to "" will use binary default
TVH_HTSP_PORT="" 

# TVH_DEBUG
#   if set to 1 will output debug to syslog
TVH_DEBUG=0

# TVH_ARGS
#   add any other arguments
TVH_ARGS="" 

There should be no reason to be playing with -C unless the setup failed AFAIK.

$ ps -eaf | grep tvh
hts       1841     1  0 Apr16 ?        00:55:11 tvheadend -f -u hts -g video

Check that hts is part of the video group and/or the permissions on your tuner files, e.g.

$ ll /dev/dvb/adapter0
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120 Apr 16 10:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root     140 Apr 16 10:38 ../
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 Apr 16 10:38 demux0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 1 Apr 16 10:38 dvr0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 Apr 16 10:38 frontend0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 2 Apr 16 10:38 net0

Tx ,.. need to check some of that stuff,.. but I did look at the upstart file myself,.. and I'm pretty sure $USER stuff was blank.

although ps stuff was something like

myUSER 1841 1 0 Apr16 ? 00:55:11 tvheadend -f -u myUSER -g video

So without checking it maybe that the upstart file has not been created correctly for some reason.

what does package configure set these things to,.. or does it just go with what is already there?

Just wondering,.. but will confirm other stuff later...

Just checked what is going on,.. and as you suspected the /etc/default/tvheadend file was the issue,... as my_user was defined as the user rather than hts,. not sure why this occurred,.. would assume the install script would check for hts user,.. and associated privs and got with it..

Anyway changed my_USER to hts and did a service restart,.. and all is now well it seems.. although I had to re-tune all adapters again,.. I assume there must be a way of copying this config data,. as a backup,.. and for restore purposes...

Now system reports the following:-

hts 3126 1 3 17:20 ? 00:00:29 tvheadend -f -u hts -g video

total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Apr 25 16:38 adapter0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Apr 25 16:38 adapter1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Apr 25 16:38 adapter2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Apr 25 16:38 adapter3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Apr 25 16:38 adapter4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Apr 25 16:38 adapter5

Many thanks for the pointers to the defaults file...

Rgrds

You'd have had to set up again as your config location will have moved when the user changed - you probably have /home/$ME/.hts/tvheadend and /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend now, with your old config in the former and the new one in the latter.

Yes, you could have moved it over and changed some file ownerships (i.e. anything owned by $ME needs to be owned by hts now) - same for backups - just keep an eye on permissions and all would be fine. I've moved configs around, back and between with very little problem, although setting up from scratch isn't too traumatic if necessary.

Glad it's up and running, though. When all this playing around is finished, you'll miss it ... :-)