I have managed to solve it.
I have TVHeadned running on Raspberry PI as well and got confused that the config files for TVHeadned
will be located in /home or the /root folders AND did not notice /.hts/tvheadend/
# ls -ila
total 34
1 drwxrwxr-x 1 default default 2048 Mar 29 00:13 .
1 drwxrwxr-x 1 default default 2048 Mar 29 00:13 ..
405 drwx------ 1 default default 2048 Mar 28 04:27 .hts ------------ DID NOT SEE IT
should have gone to specs ...
570 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 7 10:46 bak-linuxrc -> bin/busybox
258 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 28 20:30 bin
138 drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 2240 May 6 17:43 dev
343 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 May 6 17:43 etc
448 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Mar 13 03:35 home
526 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 7 10:46 lib
550 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 168 Dec 7 10:46 linuxrc
2 drwx------ 1 root root 2048 May 6 17:43 lost+found
555 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 7 10:46 media
338 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Jan 4 2000 mnt
556 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 7 10:46 opt
1 dr-xr-xr-x 57 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 proc
518 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 May 4 15:56 root
342 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 7 10:46 run -> tmp
3833 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 7 10:51 sbin
1 drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 May 6 17:43 sys
155 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 140 May 6 17:43 tmp
571 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 7 10:46 usr
558 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 7 10:46 var
453 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 May 4 13:07 www
just edited /.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol/2 to disable it and enabled
/.hts/tvheadend/accesscontrol/1