[mythtv-users] icons

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:31:39 +0800, you wrote:

>Hi
>0.27 fixes
>I’ve downloaded (and have) the icons for all the channels.
>No icons appear eg in mythweb along with the channel names.
>They ARE shown in mythtv-setup
>The wiki says put them in ~mythtv/.mythtv/channels
>
>(ps -ef)
>mythtv  11213  1  1 Feb01 ?        00:15:57 /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv —daemon
>
>and 
>
>[sandypit] /home/jam [500]% sudo ls ~mythtv/.mythtv/channels
>[sudo] password for jam:
>11.png		     9Life.png		  EXTRA.png		      sbs_au_hd.png
>4me_au.jpg	     9.png		  fresh_us.jpg		      sbs_one_au.png
>4me_au.png	     abc1_au.png	  fresh_us.png		      sbs_two_au.png
>7mate.jpg	     ABC2.png		  GEM.png		      ten_network_au.jpg
>7mate.png	     abc3_au.png	  gem_tv_au.jpg		      ten_network_au.png
>7network_au.jpg      ABC3.png		  go_au.jpg		      tvsn_au.jpg
>7network_au.png      abc_news_24_au.png   gold_au.jpg		      tvsn_au.png
>7network_au_two.jpg  ABCN.png		  GO.png		      TVSN.png
>7network_au_two.png  channel_9_mm.png	  national_indigenous_tv.png  west_television.jpg
>7network_hd.jpg      channel_nine_au.jpg  one_ca.jpg		      west_television.png
>7network_hd.png      eleven_au.jpg	  one_ca.png
>9HD.png		     eleven_au.png	  ONE.png
>
>So I looked at the page src for mythweb.
>Very not clear, but I do not see any channel img src alt type lines
>
>The wiki also says there is a ChannelIcons storage group, but there is not
>On this frontend I’m running mythbuntu (10.04)
>
>Can anybody show me how please
>James

The location of channel icons has changed with more recent versions of
MythTV.  The storagegroup and putting them in
/home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels is correct for versions since 0.26? (not
sure, might be 0.25), but it was a little different before that.  If I
remember correctly, what I used to do was to put them in
/home/<frontenduser>/.mythtv/channels (where <frontenduser> was my
main MythTV user login).  Then I had /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels
linked to that directory, and also the same from any other frontend
user directories.  So what I would recommend now is that you have them
in the new location of /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels, and put links to
that directory from all your /home/<frontenduser>/.mythtv/channels
directories.  When you upgrade to a recent version, you should then
just be able to remove those links as they will not be necessary any
more.