[mythtv-users] icons

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 13/01/2021 03:28, James Linder wrote:
> Wunz upon a time
> I had all the channel icon working.
> I had the icons and manipulated the db and all was well.
> Somewhere along the way I lost all that and tried to put it all back
> 
> [sandypit] /home/jam [1014]% ls .mythtv/channels
> 180px-ABC3_logo.png  abc3_au.png         national_indigenous_tv.png   seven-two.png
> 4me_au.png           abc_hd_au.png       one_ca.png                   ten_network_au.png
> 7mate.png            abc_news_24_au.png  sbs861c4b17d8fc1856b814.png  topv_food_channel.png
> 7mate.png.0x57.png   abc-news-24.png     sbs_au_hd.png                tvsn_au.png
> 7network_au.png      channel_9_mm.png    sbs_one_au.png               west_television.png
> 7network_au_two.png  eleven_au.png       sbs_plus.png
> 7network_hd.png      eleven.png          sbs_two_au.png
> abc1_au.png          fresh_us.png        seven-mate.png
> 
> user jam (not mythtv) is the user who runs mythtv. sandypit is the backend.
> 
> and checking the db
> 
> MariaDB [mythconverg]> select chanid, icon from channel;
> +--------+----------------------------+
> | chanid | icon                       |
> +--------+----------------------------+
> |  10007 | 7network_au.png            |
> |  10071 | 7network_au.png            |
> |  10072 | 7network_au_two.png        |
> |  10073 | 7mate.png                  |
> |  10070 | 7network_hd.png            |
> |  10076 | 7flix.png                  |
> |  10075 |                            |
> |  10074 | 4me_au.png                 |
> |  10078 | racing.png                 |
> |  10003 | sbs_one_au.png             |
> |  10033 | topv_food_channel.png      |
> |  10034 | national_indigenous_tv.png |
> . . .
> 
> 
> 
> And to top it off I tried mythtv-setup->channel editor->icon download. That never has and still does not work. (Some icons are downloaded)
> 
> What am I missing
> Thanks
> James

Probably there are no icons for your channels on our
source (lyngsat). Have a look there and see if they
are or not.

AU icon data used to come from the sheppard grabber
iirc....

I also have a todo item to add support for the picons
data source for icons.


Regards
Stuart