Hi,

Now it is possible to combine picon by service reference and picon by name (with some cleaning rules in the picon name). (Or even use only picon by name which gives many advantages when you have several time the same channel name on multiple providers/satellite).

I just install OpenHDF on my Golden Interstar Xpeed LX-3 and it seems that OpenHDF only support picon by service reference and not picon by name.

Can you foreseen to also include the support for picon by name in the same way as other images do now?

Filename format is as follows:

Lower case, bbconehd.png (this allows BBC One HD and BBC ONE HD to share a picon (Das Earst, 19.2E; DAS ERSTE, 13.0E; etc))
No spaces,
Excluded characters: ['/', '\\', '\'', '"', '`', '?', ' ', '(', ')', ':', '<', '>', '|', '.', '\n']
Special characters: '*', '+' and '&' are converted to 'star', 'plus' and 'and' respectively.

And there is also a fallback if the service name ends with HD if the perfect match with the picon name doesn't exist it will try to use the picon name without the HD at the end.
Exemple: TF1 HD will search for tf1hd.png if it doesn't exist will fallback to tf1.png

Here is the thread about this on OpenPLi forum:

forums.openpli.org/topic/35628-picons-by-service-name/

Thanks,

Pr2

Hi,

I use yesterday image (25 january (version 217) + online update) on my Golden Interstar Xpeed LX-3.

If I point /media/usb/picon to the folder where the picon by name are no picon displayed.
if I point /media/usb/picon to service reference picon it works.

All picons are 300x180 size with transparent background.

No I don't use PiconManager since I use my own set of picon.

On Astra 19.2E on this TP:
en.kingofsat.net/tp.php?tp=76

You have a FTA channel picon called: D17 here is the picon that is associated to it that doesn't work.

Channel name is D17 so picon should be called: d17.png and no display (see attached file)

Pr2

Hi,

I fix it, I go into /usr/share/enigma2 and find out that picon folder exist.
I remove it (rm -rf picon) and create a symlink to the picon.NAMED

ln -s /media/usb/picon.NAMED picon
and it works.

So I delete again the /usr/share/enigma2/picon

And create back my original symlink (like I does on other images):

cd /media/usb
ln -s picon.NAMED picon

and it doesn't work.
But it work for service references picons.

So I conclude that on OpenHDF picon by name only work if they are located in /usr/share/enigma2/picon (that's why it works for you) if they are in /media/usb/picon it doesn't work.

I hope my investigation will help you to fix this problem.

Thanks,

Pr2

Hi,

You are right, the empty folder in /usr/enigma2/picon does the trick (without it it doesn't work).

Yes internal flash is big enough but after a firmware flash everything is lost and need to be restored again.
So I prefer to use an external USB ext3 formatted with picons and epg.dat

Anyway there is one improvement that is not ported in your image, most HD channels use the same picon as the SD one.
So now a fallback is implemented in other images, to search for the picon name without hd at the end.

Example: "TF1 HD" if "tf1hd.png" doesn't exist but "tf1.png" exist then it will use the "sd" version.

This doesn't work in OpenHDF can you also implement it?

Pr2

No thanks I use my own picons.

Sad that you don't want your image to have the same smart features like others image have. Why duplicate picons when only one is needed.
This is just reports to help you improve your image and make it compatible with what others do.

Pr2

OK thanks i changed image.