Mythautoicon

MythAutoIcon

a small program to locate , download, and inject channel icons into mythtv database/channel guide, flexible and ideal if you've used mc2xml http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Mc2xml

http://www.syzygy.eclipse.co.uk[1]............d/load......instructions in readme.txt

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Channel Logos

These a UK specific instructions, but 'mythautoicon' is designed for use in other regions. Take a look at the README if you are outside the UK.

sudo mkdir /var/lib/mythicons

wget http://www.syzygy.eclipse.co.uk/files/mythautoicon_v0_2.tar.bz2
tar jxvf mythautoicon_v0_2.tar.bz2
cd mythautoicon_v0_2
joe mythautoicon.py  (editing  program file USE CAUTION)

Change the 'icon_dir_mythtv' setting as follows.

icon_dir_mythtv = '/var/lib/mythicons'

there's a section on database, 'password=mythtv' which needs altering to whatever is listed in your mythtv frontend setup > general

./mythautoicon.py

Follow the prompts to match up the channels with logos.

cp -R icons/* /var/lib/mythicons/
sudo chown -R mythtv.mythtv /var/lib/mythicons/*
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/lib/mythicons/*

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and you're finished ENJOY