[reddragon1nz]

Hi

Love your serverwmc tool

I'm having a problem.. I use a local store for guide images using http://sourceforge.net/projects/epgcollector/ as my guide image importer to windows mce

I keep getting these issues. and because of this i don't think the guide images are being loaded.

2014/05/12 20:31:32.234 GetEntries> GuidImage detail for: Ellen
2014/05/12 20:31:32.234 GetEntries> > ImageUrl: file://C:\epg\TV Series\363042bf-0bf2-48af-bb72-42ee57c51a57.jpg
2014/05/12 20:31:32.234 GetEntries> > AbsoluteUrl: file://C:\epg\TV Series\363042bf-0bf2-48af-bb72-42ee57c51a57.jpg
2014/05/12 20:31:32.234 GetEntries> > ResolvedUrl: file://C:\epg\TV Series\363042bf-0bf2-48af-bb72-42ee57c51a57.jpg
2014/05/12 20:31:32.234 GetEntries> > ImageBytes: null

when i copy this into a browser i get an extra "/" after file://

Can you please help me rectify this.

Thanks

[scarecrow420]

I think normally this UmageUrl is an actual Url (eg online web resource) that all clients could access. ServerWMC doesnt do anything "fancy" like download these images and host them somewhere so clients can access them... it simply passes along the URL as defined by WMC, to the XBMC clients. I dont think the ImageBytes being null is a particular issue (again this info just comes from WMC) but certainly your clients are unlikely to all have this "C:\epg\TV Series" path on them, correct?

Is it possible to get your epgcollector to specify a network path (UNC or SMB) for the icons, so that all clients could then access them? Eg "\\Server\epg\tv series"

Potentially we could add logic that if local paths are found for these files, we cache them in the TempSWMC share and send share paths to clients, similar to how we do channel logos. But currently we dont have any of this functionality so a workaround would be if you can get the tool you are using and WMC itself, to use network paths for these images, that is shared/accessible to all clients

another option, assuming you have windows clients with C drives, would be to have a robocopy or other type scheduled job, to synchronise the files from the main server to the equivalent path on the clients.

[reddragon1nz]

Hi scarecrow420

Have tried changing to unc path but still get the same error from serverwmc

014/05/13 12:52:23.414 GetEntries> GuidImage detail for: Angry Birds Toons
2014/05/13 12:52:23.414 GetEntries> > ImageUrl: file://\\MEDIACENTRE\epg\TV Series\a232ba02-e58a-43f4-9f09-4ada0655d9a3.jpg
2014/05/13 12:52:23.414 GetEntries> > AbsoluteUrl: file://\\MEDIACENTRE\epg\TV Series\a232ba02-e58a-43f4-9f09-4ada0655d9a3.jpg
2014/05/13 12:52:23.414 GetEntries> > ResolvedUrl: file://\\MEDIACENTRE\epg\TV Series\a232ba02-e58a-43f4-9f09-4ada0655d9a3.jpg
2014/05/13 12:52:23.414 GetEntries> > ImageBytes: null

I have been incontact with krustyreturns here (http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.p...tv-images/)
and he has acknowledged a issue. From now all discussion will be updated on the other forum

[krustyreturns]

Xbmc will need probably need samba paths and mb3 will need proper unc paths (without the 'file://' I figure). Like scarecrow says we will need to use a similar method to what we are doing with channel icons to make this work across multiple clients.

@reddragon1nz have you tested with xbmc too? Also, just curious, do you get all your epg info using epgcollector?

[reddragon1nz]

hi i have not tested with xbmc but as this is the logs from serverwmc I assume the server wmc is getting the path wrong from mce and i believe it will be the same issue.

I know mce handles the paths correctly as it loads the images in the guide.