I've been a long time Kodi user. I have a Kodi media box that i built through CoreElec where you can have a media box only have Kodi installed on it with a basic Linux, it removes all the android junk that i never wanted and makes a robust Kodi system.
Kodi has a Enigma2 PVR plugin that allows you to watch your satellite channels through Kodi. This allows for great merging of old school satellite and new IPTV. It now allows for time-shifting, so you can pause your live satellite, along with pausing your IPTV streams. Very slick.
I'm stetting up the guest bedroom to run through Kodi only, instead of Satellite only. This way the person can have full access to Live satellite TV, Music streaming and IPTV etc etc.
I noticed when it was loading all the IPTV PVR channels, it was loading nice icons. I thought it would be nice if the satellite channels had icons too. I found a link that lists thousands of channels and associated PNG icons. I wrote a program that reads your boutiques and goes through all your channels and pulls from that URL file, and then puts the image on a popup, allowing you to accept the image, skip the image. There are often multiple pictures per channel, so you can select the one you like the best. I also modified the program to also allow you to browse for a local file if you cannot find one through the URL file.
It creates a root Picon folder which keeps the unmodified version, and then creates two folders, Kodi and Enigma2, and dumps the properly resized images and properly named PNG files to the respective folders. I can then copy those png files into the Kodi location and the Enigma2 box location, and now i have icons for all my channels.
Kodi has a Enigma2 PVR plugin that allows you to watch your satellite channels through Kodi. This allows for great merging of old school satellite and new IPTV. It now allows for time-shifting, so you can pause your live satellite, along with pausing your IPTV streams. Very slick.
I'm stetting up the guest bedroom to run through Kodi only, instead of Satellite only. This way the person can have full access to Live satellite TV, Music streaming and IPTV etc etc.
I noticed when it was loading all the IPTV PVR channels, it was loading nice icons. I thought it would be nice if the satellite channels had icons too. I found a link that lists thousands of channels and associated PNG icons. I wrote a program that reads your boutiques and goes through all your channels and pulls from that URL file, and then puts the image on a popup, allowing you to accept the image, skip the image. There are often multiple pictures per channel, so you can select the one you like the best. I also modified the program to also allow you to browse for a local file if you cannot find one through the URL file.
It creates a root Picon folder which keeps the unmodified version, and then creates two folders, Kodi and Enigma2, and dumps the properly resized images and properly named PNG files to the respective folders. I can then copy those png files into the Kodi location and the Enigma2 box location, and now i have icons for all my channels.
