New channel logos

[pahunt]

Just another couple of small discrepancies I've noticed. The s1 and s2 logos for FX News and BBC Parliament are named slightly differently and therefore they have to be renamed before being uploaded so that they get associated correctly.

[ywu]

I'm not sure about the naming conventions, but my own mtv ones attached here. All s2.

[mrtickle]

Originally posted by bobones
The s2 set still won't load in tivowebplus. The reason is that twp checks for an image width of 101 whereas tw checks for 100. I don't know which is the correct value,

I heard from a horse's mouth that 100x35 is the correct one.

Perhaps tivo have changed it for later (series 2?) machines in the US and so the tw+ team have responded - but for us it's 100x35.

HTH

[pahunt]

Originally posted by ywu
I'm not sure about the naming conventions, but my own mtv ones attached here. All s2.

Thanks very much

[falcontx]

100 is correct. The "101 bug" has been present in TWP since the beginning, though I have yet to figure out how it got there. Regardless, it will be fixed in the next release.

falcontx

[aerialplug]

Version 3 of the logo set is now complete and is available for download.

As well as fixing a few bugs in the palettes, requested logos and suggestions have also been added. See the web page linked to in my signature for more details of what's changed and how to get them.

Note that they can now all now also be previewed and downloaded individually as well as be downloaded together in zip files.

This is the first set of logos to be correctly filtered according to mrtickle's information about the TiVo colour palettes so all transparency problems should be solved.

[pahunt]

Thanks very much for this, especially the MTV and Disney ones

[aerialplug]

I love the MTV Union Jack - the S1 logo looks absolutely brilliant on my TV. The S2 can be a little difficult to see - if you don't like it, use the alternative!

[mrtickle]

Wow. Where do you get your free time from

[iankb]

Thanks for the Sky Movies logos.

[aerialplug]

Originally posted by mrtickle
Wow. Where do you get your free time from

Well, it was a choice between Holby City, Coronation Street, Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, Casualty, [insert miscelanious mindless soap/reality here]... or drawing some logos!

[gyre]

Thanks for the logos. They are cool

I do have one question... when hitting 'change logo', my tivoweb periodically locks up for about 15-20 mins.

It doesn't seem to do this with any other function.

Known problem?

If so, is there a good way of unlocking it?

Thanks!

-- gyre --

[aerialplug]

Hmm, I haven't seen this happen - and as you can imagine, I've been uploading logos quite a bit recently

The only thing I've seen happen on mine (which doesn't sound like your crash) is this:
This has happened twice now. I use a serial PPP connection to TiVo and when I was really hammering the connection (downloading a really long log file) the TiVo simply died. Not a reboot - video froze and everything locked at that moment in time. As I was operating remotely at the time, I had to wait until I got home to find out what had happened.

Yanking the power cord caused a successful reboot.

Luckily I hadn't lost anything important - only Material World from Radio 4 and that was available on Listen Again on their web site.

TiVoweb has caused 2 reboots to my knowledge when I was uploading - this I pot down to a bug in the PPP software rather than TiVoWeb.

[BrianHughes]

Thanks for these - they are really good.

If you happen to have any spare time left would you be able to do a couple of logos for RTE1 and Network2?

I'm attaching a couple of JPegs I found, perhaps that will help.

[TiVoMango]

rock on mr plug

very good indeed.

[aerialplug]

Originally posted by BrianHughes
Thanks for these - they are really good.

If you happen to have any spare time left would you be able to do a couple of logos for RTE1 and Network2?

Hmm - I wasn't aware that TiVo supported the Eire channels. By all means, I'll roll a few logos for the channels that are available there.

I'm afraid the images in your attachment are too "busy" - far too much fine detail to look good when reduced - but have no fear, I have clean sources for RTÉ One, RTÉ Network 2, TV 3 & TG4. I'll work on them when I have a chance.

Watch this space...

[aerialplug]

Channels 1-4 for the Eire channels, at your service. Any comments as usual appreciated. The logos in the zip file have been through my filters, but as yet untested as TiVo's watching too much TV for me at the moment

I'll add them to the web site tomorrow sometime, after I've tested them properly.

[BrianHughes]

Aerialplug - you are a scholar and an acrobat! The RTÉ logos look great!

Yes, In Northern Ireland we have support for the Irish channels as we can receive them through aerial and NTL also carry RTÉ1 & Network2 here.

Thanks for this - my listings are now complete - all with matching logos.

[aerialplug]

well... an unexpected new set of logos to download.

It seems that all the "UK" (Flextech/BBC) channels are being re-branded tomorrow. Gone are the snazzy little UK-"brand" with a small flourish at the end logo. In with the bland "same corporate font with different background colour" (a bit like BBC TV's rebrand...)

These logos come largely untested, as my serial PPP link stopped working today and I have no idea why (I've even re-soldered the serial cable...)

tom_m downloaded some and confirmed that the ones that he'd seen looked good (possibly with the exception of UKTV Gold which may need some work).

So, ladies and gents, here they are. They'll be uploaded to the web site in my sig file in a day or so.


Honestly though... we now have a channel whose official name is UKTV G2!!!

[pahunt]

When I saw the news about these changes the other day I did think it was bit unfortunate that you'd just done all the logos for them. Mind you I didn't expect you to get them done so quickly though, I'd have thought you'd have been having a holiday

[sanderton]

OK. I don't know about anyone else, but we need a way of bulk loading these things, the one-by one approach is like Chinese water torture with the clicks!.

Here's the deal. I'll write the TCL bulk loader script if someone else can put together a "comprehensice" set of the logos. There are so many about! aerialplug has done great job at tidying them up, but there are still plenty of others out there in this thread and at kitschcamp's site.

So we can automate it, they need to be named CALLSIGN.s1.png or CALLSIGN.s2.png, where CALLSIGN is the exact TiVo abbreviated channel name. There needs to be one for each channel name (even the different ITVs and BBCs, and the +1hr channels), even if they are just copies of the same logo.

Ideally they would then be packaged up into sets for Freeview, Sky etc.

The idea is that you'd just FTP a package to a folder on the Tivo, unzip it, and run the bulk loader script.

Anyone up for it?

[aerialplug]

I'm happy to use a standrad filename set for my logos. The only problem would be the regional variations (ITV/BBC), which all have different callsigns for different regions - but can still be represented with the same callsign.

I'm currently still stumped with my serial PPP connection suddently going awol - but I'll see what I can do.

[sanderton]

It would just be a matter of having copies of the same logo but named BBC1WEST.s2.png BBC1LON.s2.png, etc

It's just a lot easier to have dupes of longos than to try to come up with some matching code.

[tom_m]

AP

Excellent work - sanderton's bulk-loader script sounds like a great idea - the only problem with all these great logos is the one-by-one process of installing them!

It'd be really good to have these logos as a "quick load" package. One thought - it would also be nice to have a quick way to delete all the logos off the TiVo too... so I could start with a "clean slate"

[sanderton]

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[gyre]

Played Stuart!!! I was getting RSI from uploading everything manually.

-- gyre --

[pahunt]

Good work Stuart

[aerialplug]

I'll re-issue my logos (probably tonight) all with the correct callsigns.

[sanderton]

Ok, here's something.

This script will load into the Tivo a set of logos from a directory on the TiVo - get them up there with FTP.

To use:

Unzip on your PC and FTP loadlogos.tcl to the TiVo. chmod 755 it

Run it with:

./loadlogos.tcl [dirname]

eg,

./loadlogos.tcl /var/hack/logos

It will load any compatible .png files it finds in the dir and will automatically associate them with the channels they represent if the files are named:

CALLSIGN-s2-p2.png
CALLSIGN-s1-p1.png

eg, UKST1-s2-p2.png for UK Style + 1

Assuming it works OK, then its over to you guys to repost the various logos in this thread with the correct filenames, create duplicates of the logos with the various +1 and regional variation callsigns, and package them up into Sky sets, Freeview sets etc.

Ideally we'd want a zip with all the Sky logos, say, which you can copy to the TiVo, unzip, and run the script.

You'll need to do a Full Reload of TivoWeb to see the effect of this script in the Logos module.

No need to delete old ones first; if it finds a logo with the right callsign it will replace the existing one with it.

The script is 99% repurposed Tivoweb code, so kudos to Jake B. and lightn for the original.

(Also includes deletelogos.tcl which removes all user uploaded logos)

Updated to 1.1 which, er, works!

[mini__me]

What a legend