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

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, October 15, 2015 10:50:55 PM Mike Perkins wrote:
> 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?

I had read that the Channel Icons group was made by default. Downloading puts icons in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels but neither the FE nor MythWeb could see them. For MythWeb I hacked things by copying icons into /var/lib/mythweb/data/tv_icons as others have suggested, and it worked.

Then today I did some more icon-grabbing and cleanup and MythWeb wouldn't see them without copying, and the FE still not. So I thought I'd try to create the storage group and now it all works and I can even remove the icons I copied for MythWeb.

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