[mythtv-users] Channel Icons

[Bill Meek]

On 06/10/2015 03:25 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
> Reading:
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_icons
>
> "Starting with version 0.27, a single location for channel icons is used. It may
> be in the/.mythtv/channels/directory of the user that runs/mythbackend/.
> Typically,/mythtv/. The location is defined in the built-in ChannelIcons Storage
> Group (it's not necessary to create a ChannelIcons Storage Group.)"

If you look at the history of that page, some guy named Llib (bilL backwards)
wrote those eloquent words ;).

> That's where my icons went. But if I don't create a ChannelIcons storage group,
> how do I find out how it is defined?

If you're running the BE as root as opposed to starting it as root and using
the --user mythtv switch, then right, the built-in ChannelIcons Storage
Group should automatically point at ~root/.mythtv/channels. That assumes the
HOME directory for root is /root, which is likely.

You'd have to pastebin your startup script, .conf or .system file to see if
anything else is going on. Setting MYTHCONFDIR, for example, overrides the
value of HOME. The output of: ps ax | grep mythbackend | grep -v grep may be
helpful too.

Another troubleshooting tool is: mythbackend --setverbose upnp (really) and
then look in your backend log for errors when the browser test is run.

-- 
Bill