[mythtv-users] Channel icons for generic external recorder

Peter Carlsson maillist.peter at home.se
Thu Apr 9 04:17:24 UTC 2020


On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 03:09:11PM -0600, John P Poet wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 7:17 AM Peter Carlsson <maillist.peter at home.se>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am using the generic external recorder and would like
> > to define channel icons to the different channels.
> >
> > Is that possible and how do I do that?
> >
> > I am currently using MythTV 30.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Peter Carlsson
> >
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> At your request, I have added an optional ICON field to the channel
> configuration file.  You can now have something like:
> 
> [6]
> NAME=SKYNEWS
> CALLSIGN=SKYNEWS
> XMLTVID=
> URL="
> http://d59pscns5ugc8.cloudfront.net/cdhls/skynewsamericas/1013/skynewsamericas_cdhls.m3u8
> "
> ICON=/home/mythtv/etc/skynews-icon.jpg
> 
> Note: It does not install the ICON file itself, all this does is add a
> reference to it.  You must manually install the icon image file with the
> rest of the channel icons on your system.  You must re-scan the channels to
> get the icon file information updated in the mythtv database.
> 
> Also note that this has been pushed to MythTV fixes/31, so if you are
> building from source you should be able to update and use this now. If you
> are using a package, you will have to wait for your package manager to pull
> this change and make a new package available.

Hi John,

This is excellent! Thank you for implementing this!

I am still on version 30 and use the Debian package but I
hope to soon be able upgrade to 31.

Best regards,
Peter Carlsson


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