Lost signal now cannot view webGUI

Joe Christl

Good morning all,

I have my tvheadend server running on my Synology NAS and the kodi/tvh client in the living room. This morning I was watching the news, and it was storming pretty good. I wanted to make the picture better, so I moved the antenna around some, and then I saw that the picture was frozen.

My LibreElec box rebooted on its own. When it came back up it complained that it could not connect to TVheadend backend. At fist I thought there was something wrong with my Kodi, but then I realized it was the backend server that was giving me trouble; I could still connect to a clean signal from the HDHomerun installed on my computer.

I could not connect to the WebGui, so I stopped the service and restarted it, which came back up fine, as far as I know. But I still cannot access the WebGUI. (edit: the web page just sits attempting to load)

Has anyone else had something like this happen? What steps should I do to troubleshoot this? I'd hate to uninstall this after just getting it all setup.

Thanks for any assistance.

mpmc

ssh into the box & back up your config, a simple "cp -arp /<source> /<target>" should do it. I'm not 100% sure of the paths for libreelec, but you should be able to figure that out.

If the service is already running, see how it's running, then kill (kill <pid>) it & run it from terminal directly.

Something like.

/path/to/tvheadend -c /path/to/config --noacl.

The noacl option stops user login checks.

Joe Christl

> I'm not 100% sure of the paths for -libreelec- Synology, but you should be able to figure that out.

FTFY :)

Thanks, when I get to the house I will give that a try, and let you know what is what.

mpmc

Joe Christl wrote:
> > I'm not 100% sure of the paths for -libreelec- Synology, but you should be able to figure that out.
> FTFY :)
>

> Thanks, when I get to the house I will give that a try, and let you know what is what.

Hehe, yes. Syno :p

Joe Christl

I was able to get into the webui. There were two different tvheadend process running. I killed the one but the other one would not die. doing a kill pid simply didn't work. I rebooted the nas and afterwards it let me straight in.

Weird that it wouldn't let me kill the pid.

Thanks for the assist.

mpmc

Joe Christl wrote:
> I was able to get into the webui. There were two different tvheadend process running. I killed the one but the other one would not die. doing a kill pid simply didn't work. I rebooted the nas and afterwards it let me straight in.
>

>Weird that it wouldn't let me kill the pid.

even with kill -9 ?

> Thanks for the assist.

Joe Christl

honestly now that I think of it, I am not sure if Synology has kill -9. They may and I could have just forgot, as Syno has some weird bastardized version of unix for a command shell.