Add icons to TVheadend

Step 1. Find TV Icons

I googled: abc tv icon using the image setting, and was able to find icons for each of the networks.

I selected both png and jpg files and didn't worry about the size of the file

The filenames should follow some naming convention. For example, Fox is over-the-air channel 7.1 in Austin. So, the image name should be 7.1.png or fox.png.

I saved the images to my MacBook

Step 2. Create directory and move icons

On a laptop, open a terminal window and login

$ ssh ♣username♣@tvheadend

Create some directories (hts is the default TVheadend user)

$ sudo mkdir /home/♣username♣/xmltv

$ sudo mkdir /home/♣username♣/xmltv/icons

On a laptop, open another terminal window. cd to the directory containing the TV icons and copy them to the TVheadend server

$ scp *.png ♣username♣@♣tvheadend-server-name♣:/home/♣username♣/xmltv/icons/.

Make a symbolic link from hts

$ sudo su - hts

hts$ ln -s /home/♣username♣/xmltv .xmltv

hts$ logout

The above may be a little bit confusing because you login as hts, and your home directory is /home/hts. To see this, enter $ ls ~/.

When you enter $ logout, you log out of user hts user. The symbolic link won't be visible to your ♣username♣, but it is to the hts user and ~xmltv link is required for proper operation of tvheadend, which uses hts and doesn't know about your ♣username♣.

Step 3. Enable icons in tvheadend

In browser, go to tvheadend:9981 and then Configuration : Channel / EPG : Channels.

Note: view level must be expert otherwise the User Icon doesn't appear

Select a line for one of your channels

Click Edit

In the User Icon field, enter the path, something like (Fox is channel 7.1, and the icon is fox.png)

file:///home/hts/.xmltv/xmltv/icons/fox.png

Note: the value in User Icon, in the image above is wrong

In the Tags field, click all the boxes

In the pop up, click Apply and then Save

At the bottom of the TVheadend page, click the Refresh icon

Next: Add EPG to TVheadend