D. Bush wrote:
> I have an HTPC that was running Win7 and WMC, but since WMC is slowly breaking due to lack of support I'm repurposing the machine as a Linux HTPC and server (Ubuntu 14.04). I've installed tvheadend and gotten as far as detecting all my services (ATSC OTA) and can feed live TV, but seem to be having a login issue.
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> The service does seem to be starting on boot, but I'm unable to log in to the web interface -- it asks for a password, but nothing works. The only way I've been able to access it is by stopping the service and restarting with -C. I have an admin login set up.
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> I'm having difficulty connecting with Kodi as well -- I keep getting a lost connection to tvheadend error -- and am thinking it's related to the login issue.
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> Any ideas? What information would be helpful to provide?
I had a similar issue, there seems to be a bug with the superuser account. The tips below apply to 4.1.x they may apply to 4.0.x but I can't be sure.
* Make sure that you've added a password for the account you created (you should see a Password tab, if you don't you're using an old version).
* Create a new admin account with all permissions (don't forget to add a password).
* You can create a limited catch all account by creating a new user with the username
(yes an asterisk). Remember to enter an asterisk in the Passwords tab too for the asterisk account (just enter in both username & password).
* If you plan on adding more limited users remember that any permissions you give the catch all asterisk account will also apply to additional accounts so you'll want to limit it as much as possible.
HTH