[mythtv-users] Trouble getting channel icons.

[Michael T. Dean]

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