Tvheadend

~/.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol (or wherever your configuration files will be - if you've done a self-compile, you should know where you've put everything...!).

One file per user rule, named as numbers (i.e. first one is "1", second "2", etc.).

Format is:

{
        "enabled": <boolean, 1=true, 0=false>,
        "username": "<string>",
        "password": "<string>",
        "comment": "<string>",
        "prefix": "<string, format 0.0.0.0/0>",
        "streaming": <boolean>,
        "dvr": <boolean>,
        "dvrallcfg": <boolean>,
        "webui": <boolean>,
        "admin": <boolean>,
        "id": "<string, corresponds to the file name>" 
}

e.g.:

hts@revo:~/.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol$ cat 2
{
        "enabled": 1,
        "username": "*",
        "password": "*",
        "comment": "VLC Streaming users",
        "prefix": "192.168.1.0/24",
        "streaming": 1,
        "dvr": 0,
        "dvrallcfg": 0,
        "webui": 0,
        "admin": 0,
        "id": "2" 
}
hts@revo:~/.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol$

rule enabled, no name/password, anyone on the local LAN, streaming only, second rule.

Hi - I found the problem, if one can call it that, and it was down to me!

Many releases ago I had modified the tvheadend.js file locally to launch standalone VLC rather than play in a DIV of the browser
When I updated, I accidentally changed the part of this file that deals with drawing the menus - but not enough to completely break it - hence the
problems :-)

All fine now!