[mythtv-users] Channel Icons....yes, I did search!

[Bob Sully]

Hi -

Now that I have Myth pretty well doing what it needs to (other than the
remote setup, which I started a thread on yesterday), I'm looking at some
of the other smaller details.

I don't have channel icons.  I have searched gossamer-threads, but can/t
seem to get things to work properly.  I have an iconmap.xml file in
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/contrib, but it's empty:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generated by mkiconmap.pl -->
<iconmappings>


</iconmappings>


There's nothing in the ~/.mythtv/channels directory:

[mythtv at vader: ~]$ lsl .mythtv/channels/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Sep 16 11:58 ./
drwxr-xr-x  9 mythtv mythtv 4096 Jan 18 19:47 ../


I do get regular database updates with mythfilldatabase, and the listing
info is accurate.  The callsigns in the database match up with what's in
my zap2it accounts.

The perl script does not ask me for my zip code, so I assume that's why I
get no icon updates when I ask for them:

[root at vader: /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.20/contrib]$ perl mkiconmap.pl
Calling tv_grab_na_icons...
Generating iconmap.xml...

Tried it as the regular Myth user, also; it created the same empty
iconmap.xml file in the home directory.

If I try to regen/update it:

[mythtv at vader: ~]$ mythfilldatabase --import-icon-map iconmap.xml
--update-icon-map
2007-03-12 14:10:46.435 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-03-12 14:10:46.723 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-03-12 14:10:46.736 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-03-12 14:10:46.855 mythfilldatabase: Listings Download Started
Importing icon mapping from iconmap.xml...
2007-03-12 14:10:46.857 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-03-12 14:10:46.857 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-03-12 14:10:46.858 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-03-12 14:10:46.859 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-03-12 14:10:46.859 New DB connection, total: 4
2007-03-12 14:10:46.859 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-03-12 14:10:46.860 Updating icons for sourceid: 1
2007-03-12 14:10:46.861 Updating icons for sourceid: 2
2007-03-12 14:10:46.861 Updating icons for sourceid: 3
2007-03-12 14:10:46.861 Marking repeats.
2007-03-12 14:11:29.788     Found 0
2007-03-12 14:11:29.788 Unmarking new episode rebroadcast repeats.
2007-03-12 14:11:30.357     Found 0
2007-03-12 14:11:30.378
===============================================================
| Attempting to contact the master backend for rescheduling.  |
| If the master is not running, rescheduling will happen when |
| the master backend is restarted.                            |
===============================================================
2007-03-12 14:11:30.379 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.9:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2007-03-12 14:11:30.379 Using protocol version 30
2007-03-12 14:11:30.471 Received a remote 'Clear Cache' request
2007-03-12 14:11:30.478 mythfilldatabase run complete.


[mythtv at vader: ~]$ lsl iconmap.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 mythtv mythtv 142 Mar 12 14:08 iconmap.xml

The file hasn't been altered, and the ~/.mythtv/channels file is still empty.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing here?

Thanks
Bob


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