[mythtv-users] Trouble getting channel icons.
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Dec 17 19:36:05 UTC 2007
On 12/17/2007 02:16 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> Thanks Dave, I think you have given me enough info to get over the hump
> and get the icons working. Apparently the master_iconmap.xml file does
> not have the info necessary to set up the icon logos for the TV stations
> in my area.
Might just be that your callsigns are not the same as those used in the
master_iconmap.xml file.
> (to be honest it did find one, but it was for a station that
> I cannot watch off the air so I never looked at it...but when I saw it
> in the mysql channel table, that told me that things are working
> properly, just not filled in.) I found and downloaded the rest of them
> from lyngsat and I will now dig into mysql (I hate database languages!
> sigh) and see if I can get it populated with the paths to the icons for
> each of the TV stations... And you are probably right, I will set this
> up in a script so it can be rerun if necessary in the future...
And, really, it's probably a /lot/ easier just to add the local channels
into master_iconmap.xml if they truly don't exist. If you open the file
in a text editor, it's relatively intuitive format that's used. First,
search for your local stations using the editor's Find (i.e. searching
for WKMG would allow you to find things like WKMG-DT and WKMG-DT2, but
would not have been matched by mythfilldatabase). If some don't exist,
just add them to the end of master_iconmap.xml.
Since the SVN trunk version of MythTV won't be using master_iconmap.xml,
you won't likely have to ever "merge" your changes into an updated
iconmap, so really there's no reason to create a script--let
mythfilldatabase do its job.
Mike
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