EPG_GENRE table in database had all colours set tp 00000000

[nikkilocke]

I recently installed NextPVR on my Windows 8 machine (which I have since upgraded to Windows 10, to make comskip work).

I have show genre colours set, but all programs in the guide were the same colour.

I searched on this forum, and found the colours are stored in the database. So I had a look at the EBG_GENRE table, and all the records had a colour of 00000000

I have edited the colours in the database (I copied a rather garish example from another post in the forum - I guess I will tweak them more to my taste when I get round to it).

But I wondered why the colours would be empty in a fresh install - is there a UI somewhere to set them that I haven't found yet?

Thanks for a great program - I wish I had found it years ago, rather than using Media Portal 2 (which is good, but a little buggy, and rather over-complicated). NextPVR just does everything I need in the simplest way possible - it's great!

[mvallevand]

Those colours are for UI clients and the management of the colour table was removed going from v4 since sub originally planned to replace UI clients. Not sure what his intent for the future is.

It's really hacky but If you install v4 there is an editor and you can copy over the table from v4 to v6

Martin

[nikkilocke]

OK - I have just hacked some colours into the database, so the clients are good now. 

Is it possible to change the colours in the web client? The differences are too subtle for me!

[mvallevand]

I wrote some notes on the web genre colours here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid588200 surprised a forum search didn't find it.

Martin