[mythtv-users] channel icons: mythtv-setup replaces installed png with jpg, almost

[Bill Meek]

On 12/15/2013 05:49 AM, blind Pete wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what is supposed to happen, but I don't think that it
> is this.
>
> Using Mythbuntu 12.04.3, 0.27+fixes.
>
> I installed four different colored sets of Frogman Australian
> TV icons in four different places - to sort out my personal
> confusion.
>
> /etc/mythtv/channels/ and /root/.mythtv/channels/ appear to
> be not used.
>
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/ is used when you press "i" a
> couple of times during liveTV, to show information.

It's used for everything now. Unless your distribution runs as
some other user, alters $HOME and or $MYTHCONFDIR or uses links
to some other directory.

> /home/<user>/.mythtv/channels/ is used almost everywhere else.
>
> All of that is just background information.  Frogman missed
> a couple of icons, so I went to mythtv-setup to download
> the missing icons even though they were not going to match.
>
> For each channel that mythtv-setup thought that there was
> an official jpg it downloaded the jpg, ignored the previously
> satisfactory Frogman png, and declined to display either.
>
> Now what?  Have I seriously misunderstood how this is
> supposed to work, or have I found a couple of bugs?

Remember that mythtv-setup not only changes things in the DB, but also
writes some files, so it should always be run as the same user that
runs mythbackend,

     sudo -u mythtv mythtv-setup

might help (your distribution may use a different method.) That will correctly
put your icons under ~mythtv/.mythtv/channels.

16 minutes after your post, there was an entry on the commits mailing
list:

     http://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/commit/?id=fa5599d

-- 
Bill