[mythtv-users] 0.25 channel icons not being found/opened

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 13:57:02 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 07/22/2012 06:21 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>
>> On 22/07/12 05:00, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 07/21/2012 10:20 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, they're built in storage groups. See Jonatan's link above
>>>>>> (I added the line number.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> what does that mean "built in"? that I can't control where those
>>>>> storage groups point to?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You control the configuration directory, which is probably
>>>> $HOME/.mythtv. Or, it could be $MYTHCONFDIR. The rest of
>>>> the path is fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>> ok, so that is not a storage group it's a fixed path based on a system
>>> variable.
>>>
>>>
>> I rather fancy a "built-in" storage group has the /name/ of the group
>> fixed. There should be no reason why you cannot allocate them disk space
>> anywhere you wish just like any other storage group.
>
>
> If we supported changing the directory list of the built-in Storage Groups,
> you'd have a UI to do so.  If you change any of the built-in SG directory
> lists, some things will almost definitely break.

Understood. From what I've noticed, mythtv-setup doesn't support it,
so it will always put it in ~/.mythtv/channels AND in the channel
table place the full /home/<user>/.mythtv/channels/  in front of the
icon file.

so when the user adds new icons they will have to link their user
channels folder to the location of their storage group, and remove the
folder info in the channel table. so a big *at your own risk*
disclaimer.

-- 
Steve
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