[mythtv-users] Channel Icons

[Kirk Bocek]

On 6/5/2015 3:08 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 06/05/2015 03:03 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>>
>> I got icons to work in the frontend.  I removed the symlink I created 
>> (/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels) and recreated the directory
>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels.  I then created the directory 
>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/home/<myuser>/.mythtv with a simlink
>> (channels) in it to /home/<myuser>/.mythtv/channels.
>>
>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/home/<myuser>/.mythtv/channels -> 
>> /home/<myuser>/.mythtv/channels
>>
>> This seems to work.
>
> Can't argue with success.  But I think you're setting yourself up for a
> failure.
>
> When you add your next channel (possibly months from now) if done as
> <myuser>, then the built-in storage group will be:
>
>     /home/<myuser>/.mythtv/channels.
>
> And the filename, not the full path will be stored in channel.icon.
>
> The backend (which retrieves the icons) is usually running as user
> mythtv and will look for ~mythtv/.mythtv/channels/someNewIcon.jpg.
> But it won't be there.
>
> If the new channel (and icon) are added by user mythtv, then it
> will work as designed.
>

Okay, I finally got around to looking at this on my setup and am having 
the same issue. I ran the icon retriever on my backend, which runs as 
root, and it pulled the icons into /root/.mythtv/channels.

My frontends run as the user mythtv with the home dir in 
/var/lib/mythtv. I manually copied all the icons into 
/var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv/channels but the icons are still not present on 
the frontends.

Where does mythfrontend expect the icons to be? Do I need to create the 
symlink above?