[mythtv-users] 0.21 to 0.27: Channel Icons missing

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Oct 15 21:50:55 UTC 2015


On 15/10/15 21:20, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> On Saturday, September 19, 2015 07:00:08 PM mo.ucina wrote:
>>
>> On 19/09/15 07:18, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>>> On Friday, September 18, 2015 09:49:43 AM Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>>> On 9/18/2015 9:42 AM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>>>>> I haven't yet, but others have had to. The icons are all where they
>>>>> should be, owned my mythtv. Apache is configured as out of the box
>>>>> plus the mythweb config, everything worked except the icons and the
>>>>> Backend Logs link. The backend, frontend, and -setup all run as
>>>>> mythtv. I forgot to mention in my reply to Kirk that my icons live in
>>>>> /var/lib/mythweb/data/tv_icons and after putting icons there they all
>>>>> show in MythWeb just like they used to in 0.21. So, there's some kind
>>>>> of disconnect.
>>>> Is this some kind of permissions thing? On my setup Mythbackend is
>>>> running as user mythtv whereas mythweb is running as the web server user
>>>> apache.
>>>
>> I remember having to create a special group for icons , and then in the
>> icon path definition under channels , changed the absolute paths to
>> relative ones . This is because now they sat in this icon group/folder
>> place .
>
> Yep, that's what I had to do: create a "Channel Icons" Storage Group and then point it to /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels. Now I see them in the EPG and Info screens for a program I'm viewing. So in 0.27.4 at least icons-handling isn't automatic.
>
Shouldn't that work the other way round? You define a "Channel Icons" Storage Group directory 
somewhere and then the icons get downloaded there? Everything should reference that Storage Group, 
surely?

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Mike Perkins



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