Picons for Virgin Media channels

Greenpiece

Seeing as TV3 / Virgin channels being rebranded has anybody come across picons to use in E2 stb?

Johnboy1951

Still looking for any that might suit as replacements for the others.

swoofer

If the picons are anything like the new DOGS then no thanks. I have never seen a worse branding, is this aimed at children?? It appears no one in ireland looks as how it should be done ala BBC, ITV, and even SKY, who started it all, dropped them on movies, sky atlantic, sky one and sky witness. Its a digital age and still DOGS are used!! None at all on the 12.30 news! Must be a glitch

egal

Pardon my ignorance. What is a PICON?

Delta2113

swoofer wrote: »

If the picons are anything like the new DOGS then no thanks. I have never seen a worse branding, is this aimed at children?? It appears no one in ireland looks as how it should be done ala BBC, ITV, and even SKY, who started it all, dropped them on movies, sky atlantic, sky one and sky witness. Its a digital age and still DOGS are used!! None at all on the 12.30 news! Must be a glitch

DOG always gets removed during news and a bottom left news DOG applied.

lertsnim

egal wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance. What is a PICON?

A small graphic that appears on an EPG or search and scan bar.

Johnboy1951

egal wrote: »

Pardon my ignorance. What is a PICON?

Picture ICON.

Essentially a channel icon displayed in EPG.

andy1249

Made some.
I downloaded some images.
I resized to 400 x 240 in paint and saved as PNG
if you like em . just copy to your picons folder and restart the box.

the files must remain named as is for the box to pick them up.

DukesDad

Any idea where these picons would be stored on an AMIKO A5 Android STB?
and how to access this device to update the icons?

andy1249

DukesDad wrote: »

Any idea where these picons would be stored on an AMIKO A5 Android STB?
and how to access this device to update the icons?

I,m using the Tiviar box which is e2.
In e2 you can just copy these to hdd/picon

I don't know how to do it on other systems.

STB.

@ DukeDad. The picons that this guy is looking for is for an E2 box. E2 is based on linux, not android.

The images provided 2 posts back need to be symlinked as well. Rough idea how to do it is below.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=91310256&postcount=2

Johnboy1951

andy1249 wrote: »

Made some.
I downloaded some images.
I resized to 400 x 240 in paint and saved as PNG
if you like em . just copy to your picons folder and restart the box.

the files must remain named as is for the box to pick them up.

Thanks.
Using them now in my Linux based backend server running tvheadend and displayed in Kodi.
All good, thanks.

Renamed to
1_0_1_44F_3E9_2174_EEEE0000_0_0_0.png
1_0_1_452_3E9_2174_EEEE0000_0_0_0.png
1_0_1_837_3EA_2174_EEEE0000_0_0_0.png
for better integration.

Milky1

andy1249 wrote: »

Made some.
I downloaded some images.
I resized to 400 x 240 in paint and saved as PNG
if you like em . just copy to your picons folder and restart the box.

the files must remain named as is for the box to pick them up.

Thanks for that

Greenpiece

Thanks Andy1249 & STB for your help.

I’ll give it a go. They look better than what is shown on the screen!

swoofer

how do I put these on box?? in easy steps

DopeTech

Emilka111 wrote: »

Who in these days are paying for TV to cable companies….
They are ripping off badly.

Mod; deleted

80 EUR per year and you can get much more than cable TV can give it to you.
Yes, it is legal.

That's not legal and not cheap either.

swoofer

what has this post got to do with picons, nothing so delete please. I got those PICONS to work so well pleased. Mind you i wont be watching anything as those onscreen DOGS are totally naff.

Johnboy1951

swoofer wrote: »

what has this post got to do with picons, nothing so delete please. I got those PICONS to work so well pleased. Mind you i wont be watching anything as those onscreen DOGS are totally naff.

They are rather large, but they surely do not prevent me from watching something I wish to see

batistuta9

Sir Dosser wrote: »

That's not legal and not cheap either.

What do you think is cheap?

batistuta9

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Thanks.
Using them now in my Linux based backend server running tvheadend and displayed in Kodi.
All good, thanks.

Renamed to
1_0_1_44F_3E9_2174_EEEE0000_0_0_0.png
1_0_1_452_3E9_2174_EEEE0000_0_0_0.png
1_0_1_837_3EA_2174_EEEE0000_0_0_0.png
for better integration.

Any reason you don't use SNP

More Music

swoofer wrote: »

how do I put these on box?? in easy steps

Step 1: Upload picon to box of your choice
Step 2: Enjoy picon

Johnboy1951

batistuta9 wrote: »

Any reason you don't use SNP

The SRP is more explicit.
It is easier to mess or mix up a name. Some providers seem to have different naming conventions for some channels ... an example might be "RTÉ One" versus "RTOne"

Is there any reason I should consider changing?

batistuta9

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

The SRP is more explicit.
It is easier to mess or mix up a name. Some providers seem to have different naming conventions for some channels ... an example might be "RTÉ One" versus "RTOne"

Is there any reason I should consider changing?

yeah noticed that with rte radio 1 but it's probably a very unusual case

i find it a lot easier to work with them. ctrl+f channelname, numbers are more hassle.

i was doing fresh installs a bit at the time & always had to change the HD channels you've to add a 9 i think at the start > 1 0 19.
then if a channel changed you're left with nothing, mightn't happened often but if it does the names unlikely to change.
when paramount started, easy to search by name & there was already a picon to use from a set downloaded in november

Strawberry HillBilly

Sets of Picons available here https://linuxsat-support.com/thread/132763-virgin-media/ (you may need to register to download)