>>>>> On Wed, 28 May 2003 15:42:04 -0300, Jeff C <tuner@hfx.eastlink.ca> said:
j> I dont have any channel icons in my EPG. Can I force them to j> download? Can't seem to find any docs on it. Thanks.
Does your listings source (zap2it?) have icons? If it does, mythfilldatabase should automatically download them to ~/.mythtv/channels/ and put the file path into the "icon" field of the "channel" table in your database. Check your database to see if this is happening. Also, if you have a separate frontend machine, I seem to recall that the icons need to be accessible through the same file path. -- Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. gtgj@pacbell.net
At 01:03 PM 5/28/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 28 May 2003 15:42:04 -0300, Jeff C <tuner@hfx.eastlink.ca> > said: > >j> I dont have any channel icons in my EPG. Can I force them to >j> download? Can't seem to find any docs on it. Thanks. > > Does your listings source (zap2it?) have icons? If it does, >mythfilldatabase should automatically download them to >~/.mythtv/channels/ and put the file path into the "icon" field of the >"channel" table in your database. Check your database to see if this >is happening. Also, if you have a separate frontend machine, I seem >to recall that the icons need to be accessible through the same file >path.
Hmm... In my normal user account my .mythtv directory exists and is empty... The one in ~root has a channels subdir but it is also empty.... is there a way I can force an update? Do I just re-run mythfilldatabase or will that create duplicate entries etc? I am going out of town for a month soon and I want my wife to be able to use the system so I could do without the icons for a bit if it might muck things up to update it.
At 10:23 PM 5/28/2003 -0300, you wrote: >At 01:03 PM 5/28/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >Hmm... In my normal user account my .mythtv directory exists and is >empty... The one in ~root has a channels subdir but it is also empty.... >is there a way I can force an update? Do I just re-run mythfilldatabase >or will that create duplicate entries etc? I am going out of town for a >month soon and I want my wife to be able to use the system so I could do >without the icons for a bit if it might muck things up to update it.
And sorry, I forget to confirm, yes Zap2It does have icons for my providers channel lineup.
>>>>> On Wed, 28 May 2003 22:23:55 -0300, Jeff C <tuner@hfx.eastlink.ca> said:
j> Hmm... In my normal user account my .mythtv directory exists and is j> empty... The one in ~root has a channels subdir but it is also j> empty.... is there a way I can force an update? Do I just re-run j> mythfilldatabase or will that create duplicate entries etc? I am j> going out of town for a month soon and I want my wife to be able to j> use the system so I could do without the icons for a bit if it might j> muck things up to update it.
I could be wrong since I'm not a developer but my understanding of how mythfilldatabase works is:
If the XML file that tv_grab_na generates specifies a URL for the channel icon, and that icon file doesn't already exist in ~/.mythtv/channels/, then it will try to download the file using "wget".
Did you check your SQL database to see if the channel table icon field is filled in? If not, then tv_grab_na may not be getting the icon URLs from the listings. If the table is correct, maybe there's some problem running wget to download the icons. -- Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. gtgj@pacbell.net