Tvheadend

If you have imagecache enabled try requesting them in your browser (See the icon url column).

so http://ip:9981/imagecache/44

check the user icon column too.

If you make changes to the picon, make sure you highlight all your channels and press [Reset Icon]

No, it just gives me a 404 not found. All of mine have imagecache/3 in them for the URL.

How do I know what the actual image URL is?

Tom Johnson wrote:

No, it just gives me a 404 not found. All of mine have imagecache/3 in them for the URL.

How do I know what the actual image URL is?

Tvheadend should automatically process them, e.g. file:///home/hts/zap2xml/picons/%C.png in the picon path would result in
file:///home/hts/zap2xml/picons/mychannel.png in the "user icon" column.

No dice. Under Condifguration-> General, in the picon section I have file:///home/hts/zap2xml/picons/%C.png which is the folder my picons are in.

I've never had success using "picons" in TVHeadEnd. If you use Kodi you have the option to store them locally in a directory on the same machine that runs Kodi, and that's what I do. In Kodi go to System | Settings | TV | Menu/OSD and then click on Folder with channel icons, then you can set the path to wherever you store your channel icons. The advantage is you can use icons with better resolution than the typical picon (you can often find icons on Wikipedia or using a Google image search). If you are not using Kodi then there may be a way to do something similar in whatever software you are using.

Note that to remove a picon link in TVHeadEnd you have to set it to a single space character, then save it. If you are going to use icons on your local system you probably should remove the picon links.

Also note this may vary depending on what version of TVHeadEnd you are running, I have a slightly older version so things may have changed somewhat

Are you trying to set channel icons or program icons?

If you want channels icons, your file:///home/hts/zap2xml/picons/%C.png line should go in the Channel icon path field not the picon path. Change it and then select all the channels and press the reset icons button. You will likely need a reboot to get everything to load

If you're trying to get program icons to load...depending on the grabber you are using, the program icons will load in from the xmltv file. This is the case with zap2xml - but you can check your xmltv.xml file to make sure that the program icon data is in the file. If it is not, make sure you enable the -I option in your cron script.

So I have my icons and have named them to match my channel names. I can see the correct path and name on the channel page. Yet when I go to the channel, there is no icon. Am I missing something?

icon path is /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/icons/%C.gif

Path in channel page is /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/icons/(channel name) e.g. Fox -> /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/icons/Fox.gif

That's correct, is it not?

assuming both of those paths actually start with file:///

- yes there are 3 forward slashes -

The other thing to check is on the general page under channel icon path - change the channel icon name scheme to none. Then reboot.

Bingo! I did miss the file:/// part. Good catch!