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picons path
ok i have picons stored on /media/usb/ picon folder so i then when to plugin menu and in plugin Browser settings selected Picon package target location as Ultrafit (/media/usb?)
installed picons hoping that my current ones would be updated but they were not infact they still installed to root two folders were created picon and piconlcd.
only custom picons that had been added manually were left in picon folder on usb and piconlcd folder was also created on usb.
path had been added to etc/enigma2/ settings file
config.usage.piconInstallLocation=/media/usb/
Edit even with picons folders removed and config.usage.piconInstallLocation=/media/usb/ added to settings file empty picon and piconlcd folders are still created on root after reboot.
installed picons hoping that my current ones would be updated but they were not infact they still installed to root two folders were created picon and piconlcd.
only custom picons that had been added manually were left in picon folder on usb and piconlcd folder was also created on usb.
path had been added to etc/enigma2/ settings file
config.usage.piconInstallLocation=/media/usb/
Edit even with picons folders removed and config.usage.piconInstallLocation=/media/usb/ added to settings file empty picon and piconlcd folders are still created on root after reboot.
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Hi.
The default path in OpenATV for picons is:
[font=Courier New]/usr/share/enigma2/picon/[/font]
You upload the picons there and everything must work.
If you want picons on an external drive, they may not work if you don't follow the correct path. In OpenATV, directories with picons are searched according to a specific sequence:
[font=Courier New]/<mountpoint>/picon/[/font]
So you probably forgot to create the "picon" directory ?
The correct path to the picons is:
[font=Courier New]/media/usb/picon/[/font]
And in case of HDD it is:
[font=Courier New]/media/hdd/picon/[/font]
If it still doesn't work, you can also create a symbolic link to another directory:
The default path in OpenATV for picons is:
[font=Courier New]/usr/share/enigma2/picon/[/font]
You upload the picons there and everything must work.
If you want picons on an external drive, they may not work if you don't follow the correct path. In OpenATV, directories with picons are searched according to a specific sequence:
[font=Courier New]/<mountpoint>/picon/[/font]
So you probably forgot to create the "picon" directory ?
The correct path to the picons is:
[font=Courier New]/media/usb/picon/[/font]
And in case of HDD it is:
[font=Courier New]/media/hdd/picon/[/font]
If it still doesn't work, you can also create a symbolic link to another directory:
Code: Alles auswählen
EXTDIR=/media/usb/picon
mkdir -p $EXTDIR # make the new directory on external disk
mv /usr/share/enigma2/picon/* $EXTDIR # move all picons from SKIN directory to external directory
rm -rf /usr/share/enigma2/picon # force remove (delete) the empty picon directory from the Enigma2
ln -sf $EXTDIR /usr/share/enigma2 # create the sym-link into the Enigma2 directory-tree
reboot
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s3n0 hat geschrieben:Hi.
The default path in OpenATV for picons is:
[font=Courier New]/usr/share/enigma2/picon/[/font]
You upload the picons there and everything must work.
If you want picons on an external drive, they may not work if you don't follow the correct path. In OpenATV, directories with picons are searched according to a specific sequence:
[font=Courier New]/<mountpoint>/picon/[/font]
So you probably forgot to create the "picon" directory ?
The correct path to the picons is:
[font=Courier New]/media/usb/picon/[/font]
And in case of HDD it is:
[font=Courier New]/media/hdd/picon/[/font]
If it still doesn't work, you can also create a symbolic link to another directory:Code: Alles auswählen
EXTDIR=/media/usb/picon
mkdir -p $EXTDIR # make the new directory on external disk
mv /usr/share/enigma2/picon/* $EXTDIR # move all picons from SKIN directory to external directory
rm -rf /usr/share/enigma2/picon # force remove (delete) the empty picon directory from the Enigma2
ln -sf $EXTDIR /usr/share/enigma2 # create the sym-link into the Enigma2 directory-tree
reboot
Well sorry if I did not make sym-link but though I would use new method available that I thought was going to solve all our problems.
I already did have picon folder on media/usb/picon folder
but obviously I have done some thing wrong lets see my settings:
but picons still install to root . I have no problem I can move folders but this started a few weeks back when members could not find picons folder they were installed on root . and no problem with changes being made by developers to try and solve the problem.
but get real not everyone is especialy novice users should need to use terminal when option is available in plugin browser settings so I have ended up uninstallng picons i.e from root so as to remove entry from settings file and just went back to my older picon folder on usb
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I see that you are not using the original default SKIN MetrixHD, which is in OpenATV. Will there be a problem in finding pikon in this alternative SKIN of yours ?
BTW, if nothing has changed in the Enigma2 source code yet, picon lookup and rendering is used in most Enigma2 source code, doubly so. The first algorithm is located in the InfoBar and the second in the channel menu (in the list of channels to choose from). Some SKINs have this algorithm imperfect or outdated and they cannot find picons anywhere other than only on the default path.
BTW, if nothing has changed in the Enigma2 source code yet, picon lookup and rendering is used in most Enigma2 source code, doubly so. The first algorithm is located in the InfoBar and the second in the channel menu (in the list of channels to choose from). Some SKINs have this algorithm imperfect or outdated and they cannot find picons anywhere other than only on the default path.
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s3n0 hat geschrieben:I see that you are not using the original default SKIN MetrixHD, which is in OpenATV. Will there be a problem in finding pikon in this alternative SKIN of yours ?
BTW, if nothing has changed in the Enigma2 source code yet, picon lookup and rendering is used in most Enigma2 source code, doubly so. The first algorithm is located in the InfoBar and the second in the channel menu (in the list of channels to choose from). Some SKINs have this algorithm imperfect or outdated and they cannot find picons anywhere other than only on the default path.
what can I say this alternative skin is one of KiddaC's and it is in feeds as for info bar and second channel menu I do not enable picons but if i do they always worked, from my picon folder on usb. Why do you not try installing picons from plugins and see where they go they still go to root even thought path is set in settings file i,e, config.usage.piconInstallLocation=/media/usb/ as done via plugin browser settings it does not add /media/usb/picon/
As for skin so now no one can use any other except MetrixHD no that cannot be correct
ok now I renamed picon folder on usb so they could not be found changed to MetrixHD skin rebooted stb and installed picons they still install on root even though config.usage.piconInstallLocation=/media/usb/ will try uninstalling picons again and will try manually editing with init 4 path in settings file to config.usage.piconInstallLocation=/media/usb/picon/ to see what happens,
Still no joy even they still install to root and again even after uninstalling even made picon folder on usb they still install to root .
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The surest way to use picons from another storage device will always be redirecting the directory, i.e. a symbolic link.
In OpenATV, picon is fully used as the default path:
[font=Courier New]/usr/share/enigma2/picon/*.png[/font]
And in some other Enigma2 distributions is used as the default path, in the root directory:
[font=Courier New]/picon/*.png[/font]
In OpenATV, picon is fully used as the default path:
[font=Courier New]/usr/share/enigma2/picon/*.png[/font]
And in some other Enigma2 distributions is used as the default path, in the root directory:
[font=Courier New]/picon/*.png[/font]
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new updates on openatv 7.3
[PluginBrowser]
* Add new setting to define the physical picon install location
Please note!
The picon install location of picon ipk packages is always "/picon" and this will be a symlink to the physical target.
This physical target can be defined in the settings or PluginBrowser.
so I define path in PluginBrowser /media/usb/
and piconsstill install on root picon folder not on /media/usb/ picon folder
I thought the update would solve problem but it does not so just as easy to unpack ipk and copy picon folder to usb reboot device and picons are found.
I do not want picons stored in flash ram at all
[PluginBrowser]
* Add new setting to define the physical picon install location
Please note!
The picon install location of picon ipk packages is always "/picon" and this will be a symlink to the physical target.
This physical target can be defined in the settings or PluginBrowser.
so I define path in PluginBrowser /media/usb/
and piconsstill install on root picon folder not on /media/usb/ picon folder
I thought the update would solve problem but it does not so just as easy to unpack ipk and copy picon folder to usb reboot device and picons are found.
I do not want picons stored in flash ram at all
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luxorr hat geschrieben:thank you
but not get it.
created new folder and move there picon - call symbolic link? really?
Yes... exactly so...
I have it exactly like that in my OpenATV and everything works great. However, I use a microSD card, so the path to the dir is different:
[font=Courier New]/media/mmc/picon[/font]
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@RickX :
Yes... I already wrote about the use / create of a symbolic link in my post above - number #2.
Why you mention and explain RAM to the interviewer, I don't really understand. RAM as a disk is used in Linux exclusively as a Cache... or as a "/tmp" folder... or as a temporary storage space (files from the RAM disk are deleted when rebooting).
Yes... I already wrote about the use / create of a symbolic link in my post above - number #2.
Why you mention and explain RAM to the interviewer, I don't really understand. RAM as a disk is used in Linux exclusively as a Cache... or as a "/tmp" folder... or as a temporary storage space (files from the RAM disk are deleted when rebooting).
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Oh well... OK... sorry @RickX .
I still didn't fully understand post #10 from the interviewer. In addition to RAM, he also mentions some PluginBrowser and setting up a folder for picons. I don't know at all what the connection is. It is probably some kind of plugin in which the path to the picons is set ? I have no idea what he meant exactly.
Of course, the default directory for the picons could have been changed in oATV-7.3 ... and I don't know about it yet. But of course it is possible. It could already be changed to the default "/picon" instead of the old "/usr/share/enigma2/picon" path.
I still didn't fully understand post #10 from the interviewer. In addition to RAM, he also mentions some PluginBrowser and setting up a folder for picons. I don't know at all what the connection is. It is probably some kind of plugin in which the path to the picons is set ? I have no idea what he meant exactly.
Of course, the default directory for the picons could have been changed in oATV-7.3 ... and I don't know about it yet. But of course it is possible. It could already be changed to the default "/picon" instead of the old "/usr/share/enigma2/picon" path.
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s3n0 hat geschrieben:Oh well... OK... sorry @RickX .
I still didn't fully understand post #10 from the interviewer. In addition to RAM, he also mentions some PluginBrowser and setting up a folder for picons. I don't know at all what the connection is. It is probably some kind of plugin in which the path to the picons is set ? I have no idea what he meant exactly.
Of course, the default directory for the picons could have been changed in oATV-7.3 ... and I don't know about it yet. But of course it is possible. It could already be changed to the default "/picon" instead of the old "/usr/share/enigma2/picon" path.
Thank you for perhaps trying to listen, I posted images of new options available in openatv7.3 as to where you can define path so picons install on that said device ,
for me it was media/usb but all you could talk about was
create of a symbolic link, and perhaps @RickX I did make error in saying ram rather than internal flash.
But that is not the whole point of the conversation if options are available to install to external device why does it not work but still installs picons on root then you have to copy them manually to in my case media/usb/picons folder
perhaps you both can look back at conversation between Captain and other members could not find there picon folder it was not in user/share or any of normal paths you may mention but they were getting installed on root and still are.
so either do not get it or what is the point of having option to install picons to other locations if it does not work I end up needing to copy them manually fron root picon folder to usb picon folder.
also a few years back if you installed picon either manually or via plugins you would have been asked where do you want to install. now that does not happen as Captain said openatv does not build the ipk files , but even looking back on older ipk files nothing has changed.