Tvheadend

Hi Guys,

I've been through all available documentation but found no information about setting up automatic channel icons.

I'd be really grateful for any help or suggestions, thanks.

Point TVH to location where picons are and that's enough.

Thanks, but where do I find the [p]icons? I've looked through the subdirectories underneath xmltv and tvheadend directories on the system but haven't been able to locate them.

Or aren't icons available by default, is some explicit Tvheadend or XMLTV step required to generate them first?

The only way that I had 100 percent success with picons was to download the channel png from the net and save it to the root file folder that you have created specifically for the picons. Make sure the file name is entered the same way that it is within the original png name when you manually add it within the mux or it will not show up. It is time consuming but works great. For example, my local nbc channel is rooted like this: file:///storage/picons/nbc.png. This method worked for me and all my channels have icons. Another way is to manually enter the the url address of the picon within the mux. This worked for me but sometimes the icon does not show up. I have a method with the manual loading and it works faster than trying to figure out why the url within the m3u playlist is not working. Hope this helps

Lisa

this is a very hard to understand

simple one
in general point to folder where icons/picons are stored
Channel icon path: file:///path/to/folder/%c.png
Picon path: file:///path/to/folder/

channels icons names must be equal to channel name
picon to picon source directives

read more in help

also http url can be used instead file location

Thanks, guys.

Any idea how to make this happen automatically? According to http://docs.tvheadend.org/webui/config_channels/#configuration-channelepg-channels there is a way to have icon URLs set automatically, but it doesn't explain how.

What do you understand under automatically to be clear.
It will not search and download from internet for you, you shod do that.

Channel icon path: file:///path/to/folder/%c.png

This will search in folder all PNG files with name of channels.

With part you not understand?

There is a lot of picon sets in internet, just search for them.
https://github.com/openatv-picons
https://github.com/OpenLD

Hi saen acro,

In answer to your question, I would like to avoid having to manually set and maintain the channel icon URLs in Configuration - Channel/EPG - Channels, and the User Icon description at http://docs.tvheadend.org/webui/config_channels/#grid-items gave me the impression that is possible ("The icon URL will be set automatically when importing data from XMLTV").

What does one need to enable importing data from XMLTV?

At the moment XMLTV does not seem to be doing anything. XMLTV: UK - TV Guide (tvguide.co.uk) is enabled, but Channel / EPG - Channels doesn't show any icon URLs/paths and Channel / EPG - EPG Grabber Channels is empty.

guys, hello. I also have a question on channel logos. I am currently using tvh 4.3-1784 in linuxserver docker on xpenology. i use tvh to view iptv.
The iptv-provider gives me a link to the playlist. the link is m3u playlist. In this playlist, the provider has already indicated links to channel logos.
I form EPG on my own. Some of the channels in my TV-guide also have links to channel logos.
But I want to use my logos.
I could download the playlist from the iptv provider, edit it in any way to use my logos. but the playlist changes periodically. so in tvh I use a direct link, not a link to a local playlist.
- I did not include a check mark in configuration - channel/epg - epg grabber - update channel icon (because I do not want to use logos from epg)
- I put my logos in a folder accessible to tvh
- I have a link to the folder with logos wherever possible (configuration - general - channel icons / picon settings, configuration - dvb inputs - networks - (select network - edit) - icon base url)
-- I tried to specify different options, for example file:///config/icons/%c.png or file:///config/icons/%U.png
but tvh stubbornly uses logos from links in the playlist. After various manipulations with the settings, I reset the icons on the channels tab. This also did not help to abandon the use of remote icons.
Yes, I can edit each mux (and this is a list of about 300 channels) and link to my logo there. but after updating the playlist (re-fetch period) these changes will not be saved.
maybe somewhere I can tell tvh not to use links to playlist logos? or can i set the priority for logos?
I hope I clearly explained my problem. sorry for my English.

@anatoliy

Quite old, but I'm facing same problem. No way to let TVH ignore icon URLs within playlists :-(

it is possible to change it indeed, but you have to change it for every single channel by editing each user logo