Blank Kodi/XBMC MythTV channel icons

When mapping channel icons in my MythTV, they were showing up as blank! After some research, I determined this is the result from the removal of absolute paths from icon path in MythTV. Fixing this is a simple 2 step process.

1. Create a new storage group in MythTV called "ChannelIcons" and map it to the directory with all the icons, Typically: /home/mythtv/.mythtv/channels
2. Delete the cached empty icons off XBMC. On the firetv, they were located here: /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/pvr.mythtv.cmyth/cache/channels

I used adb to remove the files:

adb kill-server
adb connect 192.168.1.XXX
adb shell
cd /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/files/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/pvr.mythtv.cmyth/cache/channels
ls
rm *.jpg *.png

Software versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
MythTV 0.27
XBMC Kodi 14 release candidate

Amazon Fire TV as a XBMC MythTV Frontend

Amazon FireTV + XBMC + MythTV

I am quite pleased with using the Amazon FireTV as my MythTV Frontend using Kodi(was XMBC) and the myth plugin. Here are my overall views on the FireTV.

Pros:

• Wireless Streaming works well across the 5GHz band (YMMV)
• Quad Core in Fire TV can decode MPEG2 video without a stutter
• One streaming box to do Amazon Prime, Netflix, and MythTV
• HDMI CEC can turn on the TV
• Amazon Prime streaming starts instantly

Cons:

• XBMC 14 release candidate seems to be unstable on the box, changing recordings causes it to crash
• Cannot launch XBMC from the Fire TV home screen (must used buried application menu or FiredTV launcher that works most of the time)
• No power-off function (must wait for it to time-out)

Other Thoughts/TBD:

• PLEX works well with streaming CBS and CW shows as well as many others

Setup:

1. Download Kodi and FiredTV
• http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/android/arm/
• https://github.com/Redth/FiredTVLauncher/releases
2. Enable ADB on Fire TV
1. Settings
2. Developer Options
3. ADB -> On
3. Determine IP Address of Fire TV
1. Settings
2. About
3. Network
4. Install ADB on your computer
• apt-get install android-tools-adb
5. Start the adb connection
1. adb kill-server
2. adb connect <ip-address>
6. Install the 2 apks
1. adb install path/kodi.apk
2. adb install path/firedtv.apk