[mythtv-users] Channel Icons

[Jay Foster]

On 06/05/2015 12:12 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Jay,
>
> Friday, June 5, 2015, 8:48:54 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 06/05/2015 10:35 AM, John P Poet wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com
>>> <mailto:t004 at kbocek.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      On 6/5/2015 10:20 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>>
>>>          Late last year, I upgrade my MythTV system from 0.21 to the
>>>          latest 0.27.4.  Before, I would see the channel icons on
>>>          certain UIs on the frontend (listings, 'I' while watching a
>>>          recording) and on mythweb (listings, recorded programs).
>>>          After the upgrade, the channel icons only show up on mythweb.
>>>          Were the channel icons dropped from the frontend UIs or is the
>>>          frontend broken?
>>>
>>>          Jay
>>>
>>>
>>>      I'd like to know the answer to this too having just upgraded from
>>>      0.24 to 0.27.4. Previously on my solo frontends I had to manually
>>>      update icons on the frontends separate from the backend. What's
>>>      the procedure for 0.27.4?
>>>
>>>      The old way, as I recall, was to run a script on the backend that
>>>      would read the channel listings and pull in the icon files. These
>>>      icons would be used by mythweb on the backend. But then these
>>>      would have to be manually copied to the frontends for use by the GUI.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does the wiki help?
>>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_icons
>>>
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
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>> No joy.  I looked at the wiki and added the symlink (ln -s
>> /home/myuser/.mythtv/channels /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels).  I
>> restarted the frontend and backend, but still no channel icons in the
>> frontend.  They show up fine in mythweb.  Are they suppose to show up in
>> the frontend?
>> Jay
> They used to. But you can copy the ~/.mythtv/channels content from the
> backend to the frontend. Make sure they are owned by the user.
>
> Tot mails,
>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
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This is a combined frontend/backend, so they are on the same machine.  
The files are world readable.
Jay