[mythtv-users] channel table 'icon' column - setting the path

[Rich West]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 12/17/2007 04:27 PM, Rich West wrote:
>   
>> When mythfilldatabase downloads the icon for a channel, it updates the
>> 'channel' table to reflect the newly downloaded icon location.
>>
>> However, I want to make it such that the downloaded icon goes in to a
>> different location.  I ran it once, and it placed them all in
>> /root/.mythtv/channels!  ugh.
>>
>> Is there an option to set on the command line with mythfilldatabase or
>> is there an environment variable, or, perhaps even a mythtv setting
>> where I can set where these icons are supposed to get downloaded to?
>>     
>
> You know, reading through the currently on-going thread, "Trouble 
> getting channel icons" ( 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/305429#305429 ), you 
> would have found the answer...  (It's even the third thread in the list 
> right now at Gossamer's MythTV Users archive-- 
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ --so it's not like 
> it's buried.)
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/294101#294101
The irony was that I was following the thread, which got me started on 
fixing the call signs (which I lost when I upgraded my back end for some 
reason).  However, it didn't cover what I was looking to correct (the 
path stored in the DB).  I had no problems getting the icons downloaded, 
but they wouldn't display on the frontend.  I figured it was because 
mythfilldatabase placed them all in /root/.mythtv/channels on the 
backend system, which isn't accessible on the frontend systems.

Although, as I write this, I checked the frontend systems again, and the 
icons are all there (they weren't there all day!).. argh.  They must've 
been cached or something.. :(  Ah, well.. egg on my face, eh?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/294101#294101 did 
reference the environment variable MYTHCONFDIR, which was what I was 
looking for. :) (it was in a link in a response you posted which was 
linked in the thread that you referenced above. ;-)  ).

Thanks!
-Rich