Kodi not getting channel icons from NextPVR

[FrogFan]

I've been struggling with channel logos since rescanning for channels due to spectrum repacking. With your help, I've made progress, but right now, my problem is that Kodi is not getting channel logos for two channels (out of 34) from NPVR. All of the rest of the logos make it to Kodi and are displayed properly there. Moreover, all guide data is correctly reflected in Kodi.

Within NPVR, all logos (including the ones missing from Kodi) and program information show up correctly in the channel guide. Here is some more detail.

I'm running NPVR and Kodi on the same Windows 10 desktop PC.

For NPVR, I maintain a folder of channel logo icon files in C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media\Channels. The names I've given to these files correspond to the "Name" reported in NPVR at Settings>Channels.

For Kodi, these icons eventually get deposited in C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\addon_data\pvr.nextpvr.

After a scan for channels in NPVR, I manually assign logos to each channel by appropriately naming the files in the ...\Media\Channels folder. The I delete all channel logo files from the ...\pvr.nextpvr folder to force a refresh when I start Kodi. The only file remaining in this folder after the deletion is the "settings" file.

Upon starting Kodi, all logos show up correctly in the Channels and Guide displays except two. On checking the ...\pvr.nextpvr folder, I can see that the logos for these channels are not there. They did not "transfer" from NPVR like all the other channel logos did.

I went back to NPVR and ensured that these channel logo icon files were assigned the correct names. One of the missing channels had the name KTXD-DT on the NPVR Settings>Channels screen. When I highlighted that channel and selected details, I noted that the name given in the general section was KTXDDT (without the hyphen) and the "mapping" given in the EPG source section was 47.1-KTXDDT. Since NPVR seemed to be associating two names to this channel, I put it's logo into the ...\Media\Channels directory twice -- once with each name. Then I deleted all the logos from ...\pvr\nextpvr and started Kodi again. The logo in question did not show up, and was not present in ...\pvr.nextpvr.

The second missing channel logo did not have conflicting names in Settings>Guide and Details, so I couldn't think of anything else to do.

I've zipped and attached logfiles.

Thanks very much for any help, or please advise if I need to take this to the Kodi forum. (Or, perhaps, to just give up! )

[mvallevand]

Save the output from http://localhost:8866/service?method=channel.list and zip and upload it.

Note there is a sub-forum here for Kodi (and OSMC) questions.

Martin

[FrogFan]

Hi again, Martin.

Thanks for your help. I've zipped and attached the channel list file.

If you or one of the mods would like to move this thread, please do. I'll try to ensure I post into the correct sub forum in the future. As you know, I run OSMC too, but this latest research pretty much confirms the problem I'm having is not with OSMC. It's either Kodi or NPVR, so I picked NPVR rather than the Kodi/NPVR subforum. Lesson learned.

Ed

[mvallevand]

When you changed the icons did you clear the Kodi guide data to have Kodi reload it?

http://localhost:8866/service?method=cha...el_id=7371

Kodi problems reported in the Kodi sub forum are specific to problems with NextPVR using the Kodi addon.

Martin

[FrogFan]

Thank you, Martin.

My icons are now showing up, and I think I know why.

My problem was self-inflicted. Last night when I couldn't get these two icons to load, I never figured out why, so I provided Kodi with the icon directory (Settings>PVR&LiveTV) and requested that it scan for missing icons. It picked the correct icons for the two that were missing. Something happened today and they ceased showing up, so I did a series of experiments leading to my post. What I forgot to do was go back and reset the icon directory in Kodi Settings>PVR&LiveTV to default (not specified). I'm guessing that if you supply a directory and ask Kodi to assign missing icons from that directory, it doesn't "request" an icon from NPVR.

Regardless, when I reset the icon directory to null just now, the "missing" icons showed up.

Thank you for your assistance.

Ed