DM800 and picons......i have no clue.

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Ive googled and read and read. But im still none the wise about how to get these picons to work.

Ive got a dm800 pro with the dream elite image.

I read some where that you can even get them displayed on the front of the new colour one(dm800se)

I use rats bouquet as well btw, and ive downloaded files with loads of the little icons in but have no idea how to pair them so to speak.
 
you need to tranfer the "picon" folder to /media/hdd or /media/usb

You need a hard drive or usb pen drive attached to the box.
 
i have both a usb pen drive installed for epg and a external hard drive.

So i just copy them over and it automatically knows what logo goes with what? i mean how does the box know the sky 1 logo goes with sky 1 channel for example.?
 
if its the same as TM800 mate
ftp the picon folder to /media/rear-disk
 
im sure you can download the picons from within that image from the addons sections cant you!
 
im sure you can download the picons from within that image from the addons sections cant you!

Yup, Press blue, then go to DBUK, and select the download latest 28.2e picons. It defaults to using the USB pen drive so they picons will end up in /media/usb .
 
Yup, Press blue, then go to DBUK, and select the download latest 28.2e picons. It defaults to using the USB pen drive so they picons will end up in /media/usb .
hes using the dream elite image though mate so its, green, yellow, addons download manager, enigma 2 picons packages, then select licher 28.2 hd usb
 
oh yeah so he is, im gettin mixed up with different threads..
 
cheers guys and big hol im trying it now......

EDIT Only some of the channels are displaying picons??

any ideas?
 
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manually done sgt flip flops ones and it seems to be working...

do i need to worry about usb space? think ive got a 1 gig one in there for epg and picons?

Oh and cheers guys didnt know it was easy peasy!!
 
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The ones that aren't showing need to be renamed I think its caused by regional settings...
Go to the dir you have your picons in browse them to find the ones you are missing as they will be there just not linked to the ident of the channel. Load your them in your favourite graphics program and load up the bouqet on the tv.

In the bouquet arrow down until you find a channel with the missing picon and somewhere on the screen depending upon your image and skin you will see the ident of the channel, it will be a little similar to the filename of the one you have loaded in your graphics prog, do a "file save as" and name the file the same as the ident showing. Go off channel and come back and Voila you've done it.
(If it says you already have a file of that name, do you wish to overwrite? Then... You have another problem, sorry)
A faster way to do it would be to just rename the file in the dir but then you would obviously lose the picon for the original ident unless you copied it first. I prefer using Photoshop as it lets you see what your doing, but remember i'm a complete noob with linux boxes and only taught myself this yesterday so there is probably an even faster way I haven't found yet.

Another thing I found if you run a plugin to install the picons and you have not got a USB stick plugged in, it will dump the picons into... /usr/share/enigma2/picon
You then have to copy the picon dir to either /media/usb/picon or /media/hdd/picon (whatever you have specified in your settings)
I also had to set a new pointer/symlink in the eusr/share/enigma2 dir to point to the new location eg: picon_oled-->/media/hdd/picon
I don't know if this was really required but it works, perhaps someone can enlighten me.

hope that helps someone
 
as i mentioned i just installed others ones and it works a treat!:)
 
as i mentioned i just installed others ones and it works a treat!:)

Yeah I know, it was for others who might have the same problem in the future as the idents change or go out of date
BTW: Where did you get Sgt Flip Flop's version and are the icons any good in it? I'm still missing a Universal one lol
 
I keep these up to date here guys :) if there any good to you
Picons
 
1 gig more than enough for EPG and picons. I think crossepg database is around 25 meg Picons cant be that much space either.
 
think it was off another site? i cant remember now sorry. If you have no luck let me know and upload it later
 
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think it was off another site? i cant remember now sorry. If you have no luck let me know and upload it later

I'm not a member there so I wont be able to DL them, can you send the file via PM, please?

cheers
 
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my usb has now stopped working is it ok to install picons to the hard drive?

mines set to spin down after 2 hours anyway?
 
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