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How do I get icons for live TV programs? - JdeFalconr - 2025-08-27
I'm pulling guide data via Schedules Direct and using XMLTV to grab the data (https://github.com/XMLTV/xmltv/blob/master/doc/QuickStart); all that seems to be working fine as far as populating the guide is concerned. Live TV is streamed via HDHomerun. However I've noticed that program icons are coming in empty as shown in the below screenshot. How do I pull down those icons?
For what it's worth I've noticed that if I record a program Jellyfin has no trouble picking up an icon for the recording. I'm guessing it's using a different metadata source for recordings than for live TV stuff. I'm also guessing that it's an apples-to-oranges kind of thing between identifying recordings and TV guide data.
Thanks in advance for the help!
RE: How do I get icons for live TV programs? - HokieRulz - 2025-08-28
I can't directly answer your question for the tools you are using, but since you haven't gotten any responses I may be able to provide some insight. I use a zap2xml docker container that pulls TV listings from Gracenote. For each Live TV episode listing the xml it outputs includes a line that specifies the show's graphic. For example, for an episode of "Let's Make a Deal", in the xml I find the following:
icon src="https://zap2it.tmsimg.com/assets/p7805542_b_v13_ag.jpg" /
(I've removed the xml opening and closing brackets <> so the line will show here.)
Which is the same that I see in Jellyfin , so I ***assume*** this is where the graphic is specified.
Edit: I found the following in the quickstart of the XMLTV tool you specified. This looks like it may add the additional info for graphics:
* * tv_imdb: enrich listings with data from the Internet Movie Database
tv_imdb is a filter program which tries to look up programmes in the
publicly available imdb data and add information to them before
writing them out again. At present it requires you to download some
(rather large) data files from the imdb ftp site. See the manual page
for more details.
* * tv_tmdb: enrich listings with data from The Movie Database
This filter program tries to look up programmes in the publicly
available tmdb data and add information to them before writing them
out again. Registration with tmdb is required to obtain a license key.
See the manual page for more details.