[mythtv] New method for channel icon lookup

John Pullan john.pullan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 21:19:13 UTC 2007


On 05/03/07, Chris Petersen <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
>
> Robin Gilks wrote:
> > Is this world wide or USA only? Are there any dependancies on xmltv,
> > zap2it (whatever its called) or file input to mythfilldatabase from a
> hand
> > crafted XML source?
>
> It uses icons from lyngsat, and should work for anywhere that uses any
> of the four source types I listed:
>
> * xmltvid
> * callsign
> * dvb id trio (transport id, network id, service id)
> * atsc id trio (transport id, major channel, minor channel)
>
> The db is stored at mythtv.org, so it's completely separate from any
> other service.  The perl script I wrote will walk you through
> choosing/downloading the icons, and will update the db for you.  I
> expect that future versions of mythtv-setup, the frontend, and/or
> mythweb will get some kind of gui, too.
>
> -Chris


This patch kind of works(ish). There are a few caveats:
1) The channel_icons.pl file needs to be in the same directory as the
executable (mythtv-setup)
2) The ~/.mythtv/channels needs to exist
3) You need to start the mythbackend

Hope this works.

--
John
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