Tvheadend

From the command line, enter tvheadend --help to get a list of available startup options.

Try --firstrun or --noacl and see if that makes a difference. Both of these options may have potential security implications, so you will need to take those into account if that concerns you.

./tvheadend --help
Usage: ./tvheadend [OPTIONS]

Generic options

  -h, --help                  Show this page
  -v, --version               Show version information

Service configuration

  -c, --config                Alternate configuration path
  -B, --nobackup              Don't backup configuration tree at upgrade
  -f, --fork                  Fork and run as daemon
  -u, --user                  Run as user
  -g, --group                 Run as group
  -p, --pid                   Alternate PID path
  -C, --firstrun              If no user account exists then create one with
                              no username and no password. Use with care as
                              it will allow world-wide administrative access
                              to your Tvheadend installation until you create or edit
                              the access control from within the Tvheadend web interface.
  -U, --dbus                  Enable DBus
  -e, --dbus_session          DBus - use the session message bus instead of the system one
  -a, --adapters              Only use specified DVB adapters (comma-separated, -1 = none)
      --satip_bindaddr        Specify bind address for SAT>IP server
      --satip_rtsp            SAT>IP RTSP port number for server
                              (default: -1 = disable, 0 = webconfig, standard port is 554)
      --nosatip               Disable SAT>IP client
      --satip_xml             URL with the SAT>IP server XML location

Server connectivity

  -6, --ipv6                  Listen on IPv6
  -b, --bindaddr              Specify bind address
      --http_port             Specify alternative http port
      --http_root             Specify alternative http webroot
      --htsp_port             Specify alternative htsp port
      --htsp_port2            Specify extra htsp port
      --useragent             Specify User-Agent header for the http client
      --xspf                  Use XSPF playlist instead of M3U

Debug options

  -d, --stderr                Enable debug on stderr
  -n, --nostderr              Disable debug on stderr
  -s, --syslog                Enable debug to syslog
  -S, --nosyslog              Disable syslog (all messages)
  -l, --logfile               Enable debug to file
      --debug                 Enable debug subsystems
      --trace                 Enable trace subsystems
      --subsystems            List subsystems
      --fileline              Add file and line numbers to debug
      --threadid              Add the thread ID to debug
      --libav                 More verbose libav log
      --uidebug               Enable web UI debug (non-minified JS)
  -A, --abort                 Immediately abort
  -D, --dump                  Enable coredumps for daemon
      --noacl                 Disable all access control checks
      --nobat                 Disable DVB bouquets
  -j, --join                  Subscribe to a service permanently

Testing options

      --tsfile_tuners         Number of tsfile tuners
      --tsfile                tsfile input (mux file)
      --tprofile              Gather timing statistics for the code
      --thrdebug              Thread debugging

For more information please visit the Tvheadend website:

That is NOT the issue
I've set it all up But the login keeps on pop-up, constant, every 1-2 minutes

joe blow wrote:

That is NOT the issue

I'm sorry to hear that --noacl did not work for you. I have always found it handy for bypassing authentication issues.

Perhaps you could try another browser, or upgrade your existing browser, to see if the issue is browser-specific.

I have tvheadend set up fine, it displays epg data fine, the tv plays those muxes fine.
The ISSUE is, open the web app at :9981 in Firefox, login, 1-2 minutes later the login pops up, login, 1-2 minutes later login pops all day long.

You haven’t included what hardware you are using so in the absence of that information try resetting the TCP/IP Stack.

It sounds like an external issue and not TVH. Have you anything else running that may be grabbing that port. Is your system running behind a Docker or a VM.

Try going into Configuration -> Base, making sure that your ‘User interface level’ is set to expert.

Compare the ‘Server’ section of the server that is giving you issues to your known good working GhostBSD installation.

You could also try going into the ‘Debugging’ tab and enabling logging for ‘http’ and ‘webui’ to see if any error messages appear in your log.