Spawn Profiles "Not Available" #733
Description
Kodi : 21.2.0 (Android)
Pvr: 21.2.6
Hts: 4.3-2550~gfa8011b46
2025-12-28 09:21:30.057 T:5604 debug <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: sending auth
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Received permissions:
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: administrator : 0
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: HTSP streaming : 1
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: HTSP DVR : 1
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Failed/aborted DVR : 0
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: anonymous HTSP only : 0
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: global connection limit : 0
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: DVR connection limit : 0
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: streaming connection limit : 0
2025-12-28 09:21:30.069 T:5604 debug <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: rebuilding state
2025-12-28 09:21:30.080 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Available streaming profiles:
2025-12-28 09:21:30.080 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Name: webtv-vp8-vorbis-webm, Comment: WEBTV profile VP8/Vorbis/WEBM
2025-12-28 09:21:30.080 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Name: htsp, Comment: HTSP Default Stream Settings
2025-12-28 09:21:30.080 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Name: custom_moto, Comment: WEBTV profile H264/AAC/MPEG-TS
2025-12-28 09:21:30.080 T:5604 debug <general>: Interface_General::queue_notification - Tvheadend HTSP Client - Error Message : 'Streaming profile spawn0 is not available'
2025-12-28 09:21:30.080 T:5604 info <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.hts: Request async EPG (3 days)
I originally had a custom profile for a mobile device, but that fails since I disable the ffmpeg-6 build while my system uses ffmpeg-8.
So I opted to explore using Spawn profiles (https://tvheadend.org/d/8986-transcode-with-n100i7-8700-via-vaapi-x265/).
I created it and was able to stream TV, but something "felt" off.
I noticed subscribing on channel <...> profile="htsp".
The thing is, for the user, I only have a single profile enabled (originally "custom_moto", then "Spawn - FFMpeg").
I then questioned whether or not the spaces made a difference since I saw no other names with that formatting. Later I saw #704.
So I renamed it to test. Still used htsp.
So I then saw I could force it from the client pvr settings, but when I did, I'd get Streaming profile test is not available.
I thought maybe old settings were retained or something and had cleared the client cache, created a different fresh Spawn name that wasn't used yet. No difference.
Also no difference after restarting the tvheadend service.
When I enabled logging and looked at it from the client, I saw the above message (without the other names because I only had the test Spawn profile created).
I added the other profiles to see the behavior and the builtins and my custom were listed. Just not the "spawn" one.
Just for thoroughness, I even added a description to the spawn. Still nothing.
What I see from the log is only profiles mentioned as "Available". To me, I don't know if that means those are the profile names the hts service sent to the client, or the client also received the "sparse" profile, but some parsing for it didn't pan out.
/home/userName/.config/hts/profile/54e26711a11084454d4d5eebbcf600d7
{
"cmdline": "echo hey",
"killsig": 1,
"kill_timeout": 15,
"sid": 1,
"rewrite_pmt": true,
"rewrite_pat": true,
"rewrite_sdt": true,
"rewrite_nit": true,
"rewrite_eit": true,
"class": "profile-mpegts-spawn",
"name": "spawn0",
"enabled": true,
"default": false,
"comment": "some comment",
"timeout": 5,
"timeout_start": 0,
"priority": 3,
"fpriority": 0,
"restart": false,
"contaccess": true,
"catimeout": 2000,
"swservice": true,
"svfilter": 0
}
I saw in my notes I had https://old.tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Custom_MPEG-TS_Input (except it was the previous 404 page).