Picons missing after enabling authentication

Ron Hermsen

Without authentication the channel icons/picons are showing fine.
But after configuring authentication in both server and client the icons/picons stop showing and log shows the following:

2020-01-24 22:47:41.308 T:140470520899328 ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/151 2020-01-24 22:47:41.313 T:140470520899328 ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/150 2020-01-24 22:47:41.319 T:140470520899328 ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/149 <snip> 2020-01-24 22:49:51.434 T:140472299624192 ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/121 2020-01-24 22:49:51.435 T:140470529292032 ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/46

Removing authentication shows the channel icons/picons again.

The server and client both run on the same system.

In the web-interface I matched the user with the default account '*' or same as the admin account, but than for 'Allowed networks' 127.0.0.0/24.

With authentication configured I'm able to change e.g. timer rules for live-tv recordings via Kodi.

Without authentication I cannot change the times via Kodi.

Any suggestion on how to properly have authentication enabled and still have access to the icons/picons?

Maybe I'm just missing a setting option?

System details:
- TVH 4.2.8-36~g5bdcfd8ac in a Docker image, with the picons part of the Docket image.
- LibreELEC community build (RetroELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2-devel-20200117095917-28eddc2.img.gz)
- started with the following command:


docker run -d \
  --name=tvheadend \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --device /dev/dvb:/dev/dvb \
  -e PUID=0 \
  -e PGID=0 \
  -e TZ=Europe/Amsterdam \
  -p 9981:9981 \
  -p 9982:9982 \
  -v /storage/.user/docker/config/tvheadend:/config \
  -v /var/media/mmcblk2p1-mmc-SA16G_0x2d4b0aeb/recordings:/data/recordings \
  -v /var/media/mmcblk2p1-mmc-SA16G_0x2d4b0aeb/service.tvheadend42/debug:/data/debug \
  -v /var/media/mmcblk2p1-mmc-SA16G_0x2d4b0aeb/service.tvheadend42/cache/timeshift:/data/timeshift \
  linuxserver/tvheadend:release-4.2

Lee Staples

Have the same issue with picons.

And the same issue with bash scripts using curl.

Fixed the Bash scripts by using curl with --digest ie

curl --digest --silent --user $3:$4 --request GET http://$1:9981/api/status/connections

Looks like will be fixed in a newer version of Kodi pvr hts client

https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts/issues/386

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18918

Ron Hermsen

Hi Lee,

I ran into a similar (maybe not exactly the same as a year ago) issue a week or so ago while doing a new install of TVH 4.2.8-36 on LibreELEC 9.2.6 (native (add-on) install this time, not a docker container).

This time I was able to solve it by adapting the Access Entry settings in ~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/accesscontrol to make it match to a working setting from a setup on a RPi.

I concluded it must have been (at least this time) the "uilevel": -1, (web-gui: Configuration > Users > Access Entries > Edit > Expert Settings > 'User interface level' > Default)

Looking at the logs, not working was:
"uilevel": 0

(which is 'Basic' if I remember correctly)

Your curl commannd didn't work for me, but understand it is expected not to work yet.

Ron Hermsen

Hi Lee,

I had another look at my kodi.log and see these "ERROR: CCurlFile::Exists - Failed: HTTP returned error 401 for http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/" messages -also- if picons are showing fine.

These started to show after I corrected the applicable file for the account used in "~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/accesscontrol".

- Last change of used TVH account in kodi: 2021-01-17 21:17 (timestamp taken from file in ~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/accesscontrol) - cat kodi.log | grep CCurlFile | head -n 20: - 2021-01-17 21:19:34.073 T:139775659202304 ERROR: CCurlFile::Exists - Failed: HTTP returned error 401 for http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@127.0.0.1:9981/imagecache/215

From a look in the alarms, it appears these come from JSON file in "~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/imagecache/meta/*" that point to none-existing files in "/storage/picons/vdr/". Checked the first few and strange is that the channel icon is showing fine in Kodi if one exist.

E.g.

grep -n vdr ~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/imagecache/meta/* /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/imagecache/meta/185:2: "url": "file:///storage/picons/vdr//1_0_1_2847_808_600_FFFF0000_0_0_0.png", /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/imagecache/meta/186:2: "url": "file:///storage/picons/vdr//1_0_1_2789_805_600_FFFF0000_0_0_0.png", /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/imagecache/meta/187:2: "url": "file:///storage/picons/vdr//1_0_1_4CC3_819_600_FFFF0000_0_0_0.png",


1_0_1_2847_808_600 > TVH web-gui (Configuration > Channel/EPG > Channels > NPO Radio 1 > channel number 101 > kodi-gui mapped to Radio channel 1 > channel-icon showing normal
1_0_1_2789_805_600 > TVH web-gui (Configuration > Channel/EPG > Channels > Qmusic Nonstop > channel number 119 > kodi-gui mapped to Radio channel 19 > no channel-icon (expected as I don't have one)
1_0_1_4CC3_819_600 > TVH web-gui (Configuration > Channel/EPG > Channels > Ziggo > channel number 40 > kodi-gui mapped to TV channel 40 > channel-icon showing normal

Lee Staples

Hi Ron,

Good news, updated Kodi installation from rpmfusion, to kodi-19.0-0.9.20210115git90a1e12, this latest update now has the picons displaying with authentication enabled in the tvheadend client.

Lee

Ron Hermsen

Hi Lee,

Thanks for the update.
I'm waiting for LibreELEC 10, which is according a blog-post from today nearly there...