Assigning a custom picon

[cal91]

Hi Guys,

How do I assign a custom picon to a channel? I have a couple of channels without picons, Irish TV and UTV HD which I need to sort out.

Thanks,
Cal

[john doe]

ive seen these on this forum only a couple days ago. just FTP to the picon location normally, usb or hdd folder called picon

[cal91]

Hi John,

I don't think it's that simple for me, i'm using the Vu+ Duo2 box, the picons have to be labeled a certain way.. for example I couldn't copy across a picon labeled BBC1.png for my system to see it.. this would have to be labeled:1_0_1_3EB_A_F020_FFFF0000_0_0_0.png

Also the picons in my folder structure appear to have a little arrow beside them, looks like an extension or link.. if I was to drop in a png file it won't have that arrow extension.. Never thought a couple of little icons could cause me so much frustration :/

UPDATE:
Actually I didn't check the other folder labeled TV, it actually has some of the missing picons but they don't link to the channel?

Thanks for your input.

[judge]

Try bbc1.png (not all caps)
Also, those little arrows are to show symlinks, a marker to the file, not the actual file.

[cal91]

Hi Judge,

I checked the tv folder and it actually has some on my missing picons, like utv hd.. so they are actually there not missing at all.. but I can't understand why they don't then link back to the channel on the epg, I only have a small number of channels like this?

I'm guess I have missing symlinks and thats why they aren't linking?

[judge]

Are you sure you don't have more than one picon folder?
Did you restart E2 after adding new picons?

[abu baniaz]

You have insatlled Ocram's picon sets. You have not said which version. One on the openvix download site had them IIRC.

The ways his process works is that people upload changes to his database. The process creates symbolic links (service reference to the files in the tv and radio folders)

You have options now.
1. Create a symbolic link linking to the tv folder.
2. Copy the files that are "missing" to your PC. Rename them (if necessary). Place them them in the same folder that has the symbolic links ( not the tv folder).
Names: utvireland.png utvhd.png

Please note: Service Named Picons do not display on the LCD screen on the front of the receiver. They will display on the VFD if you enable the skin. Theauthor of the Linux4LCD plugin is unavailable.

[cal91]

I restarted the box, I have an lcd_picon folder as well, but isn't that unrelated to this is it?

Other than that I have only 1 picon folder on the USB drive which has a bunch of those symlinks and 2 sub folders labled tv & radio

[cal91]

I originally downloaded, tv-ocra.shd.transparent-white-nopadding from the plugin menu on the reciever box (vu+ duo2), utvhd, irishtv and a small number of others were alyways missing on the epg display. However, like I said the files are actually present inside the sub folder named 'tv' within the picon folder. So do I need to create a symbolic link, or whats needed? how does one do that?

Thanks for the support guys, i'm probably coming across as a bit of a numpty..

[abu baniaz]

Are you bothered about picons on the LCD?

[cal91]

Hi abu,

I have some picons showing up the LCD that I manually ftp across, I don't mind removing them and starting from scratch if it makes the process any easier.

[abu baniaz]

Uninstall the picons you have installed. Delete the picon folder on USB stick.

Download ocram picon ipk from openvix.co.uk and install

[cal91]

Ok so I think I am to choose conventional, I have selected the enigma2-plugin-picons-tv-220x132.transparent-white-nopadding_2015-03-23--17-53-43_all.ipk

How do I install it? do I ftp it across to any particular directory, and install it form the box?

[cal91]

Ok I found on the forum that I had to put the ipk file in the tmp directory, I deleted my picon folder from the usb and I installed the ipk file from the box, it looked like it was installing for a bit.. and now it's doing nothing.. I've got a black install screen

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sorry can't take a proper screenshot

[cal91]

Just to follow up, so I left it on this screen for a good 15mins, pressed exit and was prompted if I wanted to restart the GUI, which I did and the system crashed out.. not sure if I should try this again or just download the pack again from the plugin manager, what is the difference anyway? is this ipk file more up to date than what the plugin manager offers? is it not just the same file? i'm having a lot of heachaces here over a couple of missing epg picons