Clients not being able to connect with plain auth (tvhclient)

aleguizzo

Version: HTS Tvheadend 4.3-2443_g24efc44e6

Hi, I'm not able to play streams from TVHclient on iOS: when I click play, an error pops up saying "Playback failed".
In the debug logs I see that the stream request from VLC is not authenticated correctly. I've enabled both plain and digest auth in the settings.

http: HTTP/1.0 GET /stream/channel/0679577f175018c3af90cb11dec39c91?profile=webtv-h264-vorbis-mp4{{Host=<omitted>:9981,User-Agent=TvhClient/933 LibVLC/3.0.19,Authorization=Basic,Icy-MetaData=1}}
Aug 19 18:21:34 ubuntu2 tvheadend[20484]: access: <omitted>:**<no-user>** [           ], conn=0:s0:r0:l0, profile=ANY, dvr=ANY, exclude  tag=ANY,  tag=ANY

How can I solve this issue?

Mario Giorgian Cioc

Go to: Configurations -> Users -> Passwords -> Select user and edit: Presistent authentication: Enable and then restart tvheadend. Sorry for my english 🤝

aleguizzo

Mario Giorgian Cioc It still doesn't work. In the logs I see the same error 403...

aleguizzo

The solution was checking the password and removing special characters (like ?).