Help with Ocram picon feeds

[dsayers]

Some may know that picon feeds ipk has been taken down from
picons.eu and soon feeds will be removed so I'm looking at an alternative solution and came across this script
https://github.com/ajbathe/get-picons.sh/blob/master/get-picons.sh I've tried to edit it for picons.eu and to snp picons aswell as the location to hdd but the script gives errors




/usr/script/picon.sh: line 34: curl: command not found
: No such file or directory
/usr/script/picon.sh: line 35: -e: command not found
/binaries-snp-fullns.eu/downloads
/usr/script/picon.sh: line 37: curl: command not found
: numeric argument required37: exit: 0


From what I can understand curl and -e isn't used on enigma2.

I could leave it my own picons feeds but wanted to find a possible solution for everyone.

[abu baniaz]

Why don't you just build them yourself?

[dsayers]

Looking for a solution for everyone you can still download the ipks manually but this way if the script worked you could edit it to suit for the picons you want and run the script when you see some picons are missing rather than uninstalling then re installing a new ipk

Like I said I could add my own ipk feeds but it would be on a free webserver so the bandwidth would run out if I shared it.

[dsayers]

Why don't you just build them yourself?

Sorry abu wasn't sure what you meant do you mean build picons from here?
https://github.com/picons/picons-source I wouldn't know where to start

[deleted]

Don't bother with the script in the first post, you can make it work 1 time and the next update of the picons it will fail. It's exactly this sort of script and misuse of the feed by other images, that has resulted in this outcome.

Like Abu said, either build them yourself with the source code, or take the time to visit the website and download them manually.

I'm still contemplating if I would perhaps setup a "secret" feed for people who would like to donate, but not sure if it's worth the hassle.

Daily the site has >20000 reguests, around 12GB of daily bandwith before the domain switch. The number of people actually visiting the website to download anything besides the feed... If you've got two hands, you can count them.
So if people appreciate the fact that I build them every day, I think it's not too much to ask to visit the site and perhaps watch some stupid ad. :)

[abu baniaz]

I can't get past the ads. There are hidden installers in the pop-ups


Perhaps the following, in addition to the readme file will help. If using ubuntu, you will need to install some packages


sudo apt-get install git inkscape librsvg2-bin pngquant


Instead of cloning to /tmp/, clone to your home folder


git clone https://github.com/picons/picons-source.git picons-source


If you don't want to build all the picons sets, copy the "backgrounds.conf" to the build-input folder.
Comment out the ones you do not want to build

Rest of instructions are spot on



./1-build-servicelist.sh snp




./2-build-picons.sh snp-full

[deleted]

SKIP AD top right corner after 5 seconds should immediately start the download, if you see it starting just close the ads. I test it myself, sometimes it's indeed an annoying ad, but chrome asks me if I would like to block auto started downloads or not. I'll look if I can find a better provider.

1)The script stops and instructs to read the log file, the log file says what needs to be installed, but I'll add it to the readme
2)I picked /tmp, because it's a folder available on most platforms... Might change instructions...
3)Instructions are available, https://github.com/picons/picons-source#configuring-which-backgrounds-to-build

[abu baniaz]

I'm afraid skip ad does not start downloading for me. I use Firefox and Edge.

[deleted]

Indeed, I'm also not able to download anything with Edge, Chrome works just fine...:confused:

[DaMacFunkin]

Chrome works fine for me, my AV had to be circumvented though.

[dsayers]

Thanks for the info lads I'll have a look into it.

[tvr4ever]

Manually downloading Ocrams excellent picons worked, although I had to wade through multiple new windows with anything from erectile dysfunction to cable ads for products I can't even buy where I live.

I wouldn't mind paying for Ocram's picons, they are very good, unfortunately the donate button brings me to a screen where I can pay bitcoins, which I do not own, PayPal would be an alternative for me.