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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Bill,

Saturday, October 17, 2015, 6:12:26 AM, you wrote:

> On 10/15/2015 03:20 PM, 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.
>>

> Hi,

> It's impossible to argue with your success, but it did work in
> 0.27-pre when I tested and made some updates to the Wiki.

> https://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/tree/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/storagegroup.cpp?h=fixes/0.27#n68
> Unless the directories don't exist and can't be created,
> there's no logging available.

> And, in the interest of not sticking my foot in my mouth, today I
> fired up a v0.27.5-17-g2ad3158 backend and verified that there
> was no manually built ChannelIcons Storage Group, and that this:

>      http://192.168.1.220:6544/Guide/GetChannelIcon?ChanId=1261

> displays an icon. If the above doesn't work, then nothing else
> will. ChanId, not ChanID is important and mythweb must have this
> commit:

>      https://code.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/6d10afe/mythweb

> The Storage Group name is ChannelIcons, not Channel Icons just
> for the record (built-in or manually created.) I suspect that
> the SG you cited above just is just typo.

> Nothing wrong with doing it manually, it just isn't _always_
> required.

> I don't know what commit level you were running on when this
> started failing, but it's possible that you upgraded mythweb
> and that's why it started working.

I haven't noticed problems, but I also haven't tried it all out.
If I check I don't see any SG ChannelIcons or alike.
My database comes from 0.26 and is now 0.27.5.
Could it be that on a new system the SG is automatically created but
not while upgrading? 

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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