And I put together a selection of Icons for UK TV tvh.zip (2.2 MB)
I only Lower Cased the ones I used but its a good start.
Copy them into the \coreelec\Piccons\tvh directory you will need to convert the remaining items to lower case if you need them also they have to match the channel name exactly in Lower case.
PS If you want to Lcase() all the items in the folder SSH into the box
cd ~/picons/tvh/
for f in *; do mv "$f" "$f.tmp"; mv "$f.tmp" "`echo $f | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`"; done
It then sets up the default paths, for which nothing happens, even when the files are in the correct location and of the right file name/case. Selecting prefer picons also resulted in nothing.
So I just manually altered the channe/epg guide to reflect where there are and what their name is (does not work if there are some characters in the file name, such as the + symbol).
Each meta file then contains the specific link information, which I hoped would enable moving to other boxes.
How did you set up your tuner. Is it set up as a T2 Device you may only get the main T2 mux on a Xbox Tuner. Try looking on https://ukfree.tv/maps/freeview and finding the frequency for the main mux on that
Yep - Xbox tuners seem to be lower sensitivity (i.e. need a stronger signal) than others. I’ve got 2 of them sitting unused because they gave me a significant error count when connected to the same aerial that was error free with a PCTV290e, August T220 and Win TV Dual HDs.
However getting DVB-T but not DVB-T2 with a given tuner can also be a symptom of a dodgy driver - so I’d try the Crazy Cat and Media Build DVB tuner packs as well as the default CoreElec one.
None of these settings have worked on my client N2.
Its far from clear what the logic is behind picons in CE, it certainly isn’t as simple as setting it up in TVHeadend and it working everywhere. CE and Kodi settings also have an important part to play but the priority of each is far from obvious.
I made no changes in Kodi or my Kodi PVR back-end to enable PICONs via the route I posted much earlier. The only change I make, which I always make, in the Kodi Live TV settings are to enable back end channel numbering, so Freeview HD LCNs are used within Kodi. (BBC One London on 1, BBC One HD on 101 etc.)
All the Picon config I did was within my TV Headend install on my N2 and from the web interface, once I’d uploaded my newly rendered picons with Service Reference file names which were generated from my TV Headend service list. I placed these in the picons/tvh/ folder in CoreElec (I created a subfolder with them in within that folder, and pointed to it in the web interface)
This has ‘just worked’ as I posted.
If you are even vaguely confident in command line Linux in Raspbian, Ubuntu, Debian etc. - then it’s very straightforward to do. (FileZilla will let you easily get the tar file off the build machine) You have to create a config file with your TV Headend server details for the script to interrogate your TVH server for a service list (so the build machine and your TV Headend machine need to be on the same network), and you need to uncomment at least one picon resolution and colour-scheme (by removing the # in the file on the line which defines the picons you want)
Doing this will be a great way of learning about Linux if you are new to it - and skills like SSHing, using Nano, apt install to install programs etc. are all going to be useful.
I flashed a spare uSD card with the latest Raspbian Lite, and did the picon builds in about 30 minutes on a spare Pi 3B+ or 4B (can’t remember which I used now)
Happy to walk people through this if they need. It worked fine for me first time.
Just tried my Xbox One USB DVB-T2 tuner and it works fine on PSB3 (545.8MHz) from Crystal Palace in London. I’m pretty certain I’m using Media_Build drivers (as my Win TV HD Dual needed them) and I’m running an N2 with CoreElec nightly builds.
If you’re in a marginal signal area - the Xbox One tuner isn’t that sensitive - so it may not perform as well as a TV or alternative DVB-T2 driver.
I tried changing the drivers to crazycat and rescanned, exactly the same, so changed back to the other drivers, only now i cant log in to the tvheadend interface, asking for a password even if i select default log in.
