[HOWTO] Add Picons in tvheadend

if you want that the picons get in your backup then you must do the path

file:///storage/.kodi/picons

if you do it in /storage/ ... then it coms not in the backup

Question for you can you use SNP picons I havent tried them but would be good to know as they work when a channel gets a transponder swap ?

what are SNP Picons ?

The ones with channel name and not service reference

Quote from stevejo

The ones with channel name and not service reference

look here http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=79250&p=259351&viewfull=1#post259351

Thanks was not looking hard enough :beat_brick:

Does anyone have or know of a download for the most up to date picons?

Quote from snifferdsx

if you want that the picons get in your backup then you must do the path

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file:///storage/.kodi/picons

if you do it in /storage/ ... then it coms not in the backup

Hi,
Im trying to get the picons on my openelec backup, do you mean executing mkdir /storage/picons on PuTTY and on TVheadend picon path add ///storage/.kodi/picons?
Im confused with your comments

Getting to grips with the Wetek myself, finally have TVHeadend up and running on OpenELEC.
Getting picons sorted I found was the hardest part!

Generally I'm a Windows user, but have a small bit of Linux experience - I run a small Ubuntu Linux fileserver.
Tried generating my own picons for 28.2e satellite as outlined here:
https://github.com/picons/picons-source
Easy enough to follow once I sorted out dependencies, but kept giving an error when generating the picons whichever method I chose (snp or srp). I'm getting a syntax error for the 'readlink' part of the script.

Fortunately you can download pre-generated picons using picon-source here:
https://picons.xyz/

As a Windows user, I find WinSCP an easy way to transfer files to the Wetek. TAR archives can be extracted on the Wetek using it also.

Some caveats:
When I downloaded and extracted the snp (service name) picons (various 220 x 132px styles) many seemed to be missing, for example BBC channels.
Switched to SRP (service reference) instead. Much better, used hardlinked rather than symlinked. All channel picons (I'm just using free-to-air ones) were visible, except the few HD channels (e.g. BBC One HD).

For example, the default service reference picon for BBC One HD is:
1_0_1_1B1D_802_2_11A0000_0_0_0.png

My TVHeadend service reference for BBC One HD is:
1_0_19_1B1D_802_2_11A0000_0_0_0.png
... there's the number '9' digit added in fact to all HD channels.

Now with Freesat there's only 12 HD channels so easy enough to copy and rename.
Just wondering if this is a peculiarity of my setup or the picons generated from picons.xyz?

Also if anyone can shed any light on my 'readlink' errors that would be educational! From looking it appears files are not being copied to the temporary directory generated. Being unfamiliar with BASH scripting I left it alone, just examined the code to find dependencies.

Quote from kadel

Hi,
Im trying to get the picons on my openelec backup, do you mean executing mkdir /storage/picons on PuTTY and on TVheadend picon path add ///storage/.kodi/picons?
Im confused with your comments

i think he means to place the picons in this folder .kodi ect ect
and when you do a backup the picons will be saved within the backup
i am testing my TvH configs just now as i norm use VDR in thats abut sweet as nut fr me so
time to sort Tvh for my backup :)

yup just tested it and its working a ok with otkis picons for 28.2 trans
not tested backup ect ect but it will work as in .kodi ;)