[mythtv-users] Channel Icons

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jay,

Friday, June 5, 2015, 8:48:54 PM, you wrote:

> On 06/05/2015 10:35 AM, John P Poet wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com 
>> <mailto:t004 at kbocek.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 6/5/2015 10:20 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>
>>         Late last year, I upgrade my MythTV system from 0.21 to the
>>         latest 0.27.4.  Before, I would see the channel icons on
>>         certain UIs on the frontend (listings, 'I' while watching a
>>         recording) and on mythweb (listings, recorded programs). 
>>         After the upgrade, the channel icons only show up on mythweb. 
>>         Were the channel icons dropped from the frontend UIs or is the
>>         frontend broken?
>>
>>         Jay
>>
>>
>>     I'd like to know the answer to this too having just upgraded from
>>     0.24 to 0.27.4. Previously on my solo frontends I had to manually
>>     update icons on the frontends separate from the backend. What's
>>     the procedure for 0.27.4?
>>
>>     The old way, as I recall, was to run a script on the backend that
>>     would read the channel listings and pull in the icon files. These
>>     icons would be used by mythweb on the backend. But then these
>>     would have to be manually copied to the frontends for use by the GUI.
>>
>>
>> Does the wiki help?
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_icons
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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> No joy.  I looked at the wiki and added the symlink (ln -s 
> /home/myuser/.mythtv/channels /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels).  I 
> restarted the frontend and backend, but still no channel icons in the 
> frontend.  They show up fine in mythweb.  Are they suppose to show up in
> the frontend?

> Jay

They used to. But you can copy the ~/.mythtv/channels content from the
backend to the frontend. Make sure they are owned by the user.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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