[mythtv-users] Can't Get Channel Icons Into Program Guide

Josh TwoOneSix at thatclothingco.com
Fri Jan 26 18:59:28 UTC 2007


moodyjunk at frontiernet.net wrote:
>> Your icon files should be stored in:  
>> /home/<username>/.mythtv/channels/ (i.e. /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels
>>
>> Once we know how many are actually in that folder we can go from there.
>>
>> -------
>> Josh
>>     
>
>
> Thanks for your suggests.  Here is the procedure I'm using:
>
> I generate the iconmap.xml file via mkiconmap.pl using my zipcode  
> (12540) and my cable provider  Comcast - Cable ( Carmel )
>       cd ~
>       perl /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/contrib/mkiconmap.pl
>
> Then, I clear any icons already in the database and erase any files in  
> ~/.mythtv/channels
>       mythfilldatabase --reset-icon-map all
> and confirm that the 2 icons already in the EPG are indeed removed.
>
> Lastly, I refill the database
>       mythfilldatabase --import-icon-map iconmap.xml --update-icon-map
> and notice that 2 icons are indeed downloaded into  
> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels  and do now appear in the Programming  
> Guide.
>
> I tried downloading the icons manually from  
> http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/tvcountry/us.html into ~/.mythtv/channels,  
> renamed the filenames to match those in the generated iconmap.xml, but  
> they still don't seem to get into the EPG.
>
> I assume the <network> tag is used by the database to associate the  
> filename in the <url> tag with the channel.
>                  <network>dni_WABC</network>
>                  <url>[dni_zap2it]/abc_affiliate.jpg</url>
> Even when I manually rename a file to  
> ~/.mythtv/channels/abc_affiliate.jpg, it doesn't make it into the  
> database.  Perhaps the database doesn't recognize the dni_WABC value?
>
> Any suggestions on where I can find some good doc on the format of the  
> mkiconmap.pl output?
>
>
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>   
Did you check the file permissions on that particular folder to ensure 
myth can use them?

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Josh



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