[mythtv-users] Trouble getting channel icons.

[Dave]

Mythtv is very simple, there's only tow reasons this can be happening. 
Either:

1. you don't have the icon locations populated in your database
2. the icon locations are unreadable (permissions) or corrupted images
3. the theme you are using isn't configured to display icons (or you've 
not toggled the "display icons" in the setup pages)

For #1 , #2 check which channels have the 'icon' column populated by 
running the command

  mysql -e "select name,chanid,icon from channel where icon != ''" 
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That should give you a table something like so:

name    chanid  icon
MNetE   1610    /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/mnet.jpg
MM1     1630    /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/mnet_movies1.jpg
SS1     1640    /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels/supersport1.jpg

then for each channel, check whether or not the icons are readable and 
not corrupt.

If all that is correct, ensure for #3 that you toggle the right option 
in the setup menus.

If you get no output from the mysql command, then your icons are not 
populated and you need to write a small script to do this. Just type in 
'lyngsat dstv' (for example for DSTV africa) into google and then click 
on the icon and you will get all the channle icons for them, then write 
a script to automatically 'wget' all of them and map then to your channels.

Sorry if i missed earlier thread on how far you've got with this but i 
only seen your query today. Hope this helps you further the diagnosis 
why it's not working for you.

Dave

Marc Chamberlin marc at marcchamberlin.com:
 > Thanks Michael for your help, but I am still not getting the icons for
 > the various TV stations! :-(  I used the master_iconmap.xml file that
 > the link you gave supplied me with, reset the database as described in
 > the bug report and that didn't give me the icons. So I decided to do the
 > update as well and still no joy. Both scripts seem to run fine without
 > any error reports. Ideas?
 >
 >         Marc...