Tvheadend

I found the log uploader add-on and used it to upload my log: https://paste.kodi.tv/afipipitif

Is server installed and started?

Is

http://your.box.name.or.ip:9981

Hi Saen & thanks. Yes, the whole TV Head End interface is fine. It seems to be the connection between the server and the client which fails, and that seems to be supported by the log messages.

Go to Tvheadend HTSP Client settings and set

127.0.0.1

Thanks again.

In the client on the TV, the IP is already assigned I set a UID & password.
In the server on my PC's web interface I've enabled Access Entry, set a user anme, left web IF and admin unticked, set Streaming & video recorder to HTSP, allowed network to 127.0.0.1/32 & set the password.
Rebooted.
No change in symptoms. Kodi fails in the same way and with the same fix. New log file: https://paste.kodi.tv/wovomamadi

Any other thoughts?

I would also check dmesg and syslog for other errors (microSD failing and set to read only?).

This log is useless, enable debug logging in Tvheadend HTSP Client.

I enabled debugging as instructed. The log is here: https://paste.kodi.tv/osododubex

g siviero - thanks. DMESG shows 7 "urandom warnings missed due to rate limiting" warning.

I turned on some more debugging options & took another log: https://paste.kodi.tv/wuhenibize
That shows a few new items but I do not know what they mean. I hope you can help.

Thanks.

Read log of Tvheadend HTSP Client.

OK I thought it might be helpful to implement the fix (re-installed Tvheadend Server) and then upload the log, and so that's here https://paste.kodi.tv/nimifupero.

It's the previous log with a bit tacked on the end. I can see the installation. Oddly, I can also see another instance of the HELLO COMMAND FAILED immediately after install, and then after that this:

ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for http://USER:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/114

- but the system, appears to work normally.

Anyone?

It's not problem of server it's problem of client
last error is because not used digest authentication

saen - where is that log of Tvheadend HTSP Client?
I do not see it in /storage/.kodi/temp with the other logs
and the TV UI event log shows simply "sever does not respond properly"
and there are no logs I can see from the addon TV UI.

saen, thanks but how do I fix that "digest authentication" thing?
I do not see options in any of the places I can think to look.

OK I found and un-ticked Use HTTP digest authentication: in Tvheadend server's general settings - it didn't fix the problem - log file: https://paste.kodi.tv/suxaqunahu.

Since it works immediately after a re-install of Tvheaned sever,
and doesn't work after a reboot, presumably,
something is updating some aspect of the client/server communication in a way which breaks it.
I am guessing that saying "hello" is the very start of communicaton between the two, so it's fundamental.
Maybe it's the exchange of login data - hence your comment about authentication, but turning off digest auth didn't fix it, and why would system defaults just not work in this way, presumablkt for many users, and still be in place.

I just don't have the background in this stuff to conjecture usefully.

Super easy to test is to install Kodi on external device,
set IP and credential to TVH server and test.

Official support of PVR client
https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=168

Saen, for me installing Kodi on an external device is very far from super easy, but thanks for the steer on the official forum, and for your oother efforts in trying to help me with this. I appreciate it.

You can install it on phone/tablet/PC

Ah, I didn't know that - thanks again. I installed it on my phone and saw the exact same problem. After a reboot of thre RPi I must re-install Tvheanend to prevent the failure of the client to speak to the server.

I also posted this original query to the official forum you suggested on Friday (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=345172).
No responses so far.

Change image
https://github.com/AlexELEC/AE-RPI/releases

Just that? "Change image"? And to one from 2017, from an unknown source and for an un-specified reason?

Source is good, brand also.
It's just for test.
all extras inside are lot more then you can imagine.