Download Channel Icons

[rjbeep]

hi folks,

using the latest 5.0.1.200103 release, quick question please...

I just signed up for Schedule Direct's 7 day free trial to see if I get anything more than I'm getting out of my xmltv provider.

Guide data works great and program info seems to be at least as good as what I got from the other source.

Since I have the trial, I thought I'd also try "Download Channel Icons" and this is where my question comes up.

Click the button, get the expected process going and see the .png files being downloaded in the terminal window.
See 52 .png files in the .NPVR-data/media/channels directory... all good so far.

but the icons never show up in my Guide or in the Channels panel.

I can upload logs at some point when I get home, but thought I'd throw this quick question out in case I missed a known issue in my searching, or if this feature isn't expected to work running on a Mac, etc.

Any info you might have is appreciated.

thanks all!

[mvallevand]

Did you try refreshing the browser pages or maybe restarting the server?

Martin

[rjbeep]

Did you try refreshing the browser pages or maybe restarting the server?

Martin

I did both. Multiple times :-(

next I’ll start with a fresh install and see if that makes any difference. 

thanks for checking.

[sub]

If you log into the web app, then open a new tab in your browser, and view this url:

http://localhost:8866/services/service?m...annel.list

Does it say "channelIcon": true?

Code:

{
"channels": [
  {
    "channelId": 14400,
    "channelNumber": 1,
    "channelMinor": 0,
    "channelNumberFormated": "1",
    "channelType": 1,
    "channelName": "TVNZ 1",
    "channelDetails": "Source /v1200 [TVNZ 1] (H.264)",
    "channelIcon": true
  }
,
  {
    "channelId": 14401,
    "channelNumber": 2,
    "channelMinor": 0,
    "channelNumberFormated": "2",
    "channelType": 1,
    "channelName": "TVNZ 2",
    "channelDetails": "Source /v1201 [TVNZ 2] (H.264)",
    "channelIcon": true
  }
….

[rjbeep]

doesn't look like it... 

Code:

<rsp stat="ok">
<channels>
<channel>
<id>7148</id>
<name>WESHLD</name>
<number>2</number>
<minor>1</minor>
<formatted-number>2.1</formatted-number>
<type>0x1</type>
<details>Source /v3 [WESH-DT] (MPEG-2)</details>
</channel>
<channel>
<id>7149</id>
<name>WESHLD2</name>
<number>2</number>
<minor>2</minor>
<formatted-number>2.2</formatted-number>
<type>0x1</type>
<details>Source /v4 [Me TV] (MPEG-2)</details>
</channel>
<channel>
<id>7150</id>
<name>WESHLD3</name>
<number>2</number>
<minor>3</minor>
<formatted-number>2.3</formatted-number>
<type>0x1</type>
<details>Source /v3 [WESH-DT] (MPEG-2)</details>
</channel>

[mvallevand]

There might be a rendering problem with the lack of libgdiplus on mac

This page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/...ource=docs says this might work

brew update
brew install mono-libgdiplus

I'm not sure if the rendering impacts that channel.list so that still might not be it.

Martin

[sub]

Ah... can see lots of these messages in your log:

2020-01-08 20:45:27.719 [ERROR][17] Unexpected error loading channel icon: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Gdip' threw an exception.
---> System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load shared library 'libgdiplus' or one of its dependencies. In order to help diagnose loading problems, consider setting the DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES environment variable: dlopen(liblibgdiplus, 1): image not found
at System.Drawing.SafeNativeMethods.Gdip.GdiplusStartup(IntPtr& token, StartupInput& input, StartupOutput& output)
at System.Drawing.SafeNativeMethods.Gdip..cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Drawing.SafeNativeMethods.Gdip.GdipLoadImageFromDelegate_linux(StreamGetHeaderDelegate getHeader, StreamGetBytesDelegate getBytes, StreamPutBytesDelegate putBytes, StreamSeekDelegate doSeek, StreamCloseDelegate close, StreamSizeDelegate size, IntPtr& image)
at System.Drawing.Image.InitializeFromStream(Stream stream)
at System.Drawing.Image.LoadFromStream(Stream stream, Boolean keepAlive)
at NUtility.Channel.GetIconFromCache(Channel channel)

Looks like we need to work out how to get libgdiplus on your mac.
EDIT: Martin bet me to it.

[mvallevand]

Should that impact channel.list? I would think that even if mac doesn't support drawing in a browser you should be able to stream icons to other clients.

Martin

[sub]

At the moment, yes it does. I'll try to remove that dependency for the next release though.

[sub]

I've removed the need for this libgdiplus call in the next released.