I have several TV and Movie sections, and when browsing on the roku you can't see the section name till you select it.. Also on the iOS client the icon is dominant vs the little label.
I would love to be able to add clear distinct icons to each of these so I could pick out Kids sections VS my Movie and TV sections etc.
I am not sure if these icons are hard coded in the current clients or dynamically loaded however I am sure legacy support would not be an issue and newer clients could just check for a custom icon.
This is actually available on the Roku client. If you have setup custom icons in PMM, you need to chose the square icon setting for the Roku client and they will show up, I have done this....
This option is greyed out for me, and every thread I've found citing this feature indicates it's not enabled.
I have a Linux server and a Windows server running, and it's disabled on both.
I was hoping for a developer response on this one since it looks like there was some effort to make such a feature but it was never complete.
It is most needed on the Roku since the text does not appear till the icon is selected, so for those of us with several sections we just have a long row of movie and TV icons with no meaning.
The mobile iOS and Android clients also use the icons, they at least have the text under them but it wold look much sharper if we could customize those icons for quicker identification and style.
Do they actually show up anywhere? I tried setting them a while back, but they didn't appear in the desktop client, iOS clients, web client - anywhere that I could tell.
After going back and forth looking for someone else to answer it, I just went through the code myself, and found that you can update the database in the file “com.plexapp.plugins.library.db” with the user_thumb_url (icon), and user_art_url (fanart) for each section individually.
The change shows up on the Roku by exiting the channel and going back in.
I made these changes to my system last Spring. It makes for a much more pleasant viewing experience. My PMS server is on a Win7 machine, and I use all Roku's in my house, All my shared users use either Plex/Web, or Roku's, for the most part. I followed the directions on the following Blog page to do this, and host all my icons that are used on a PhotoBucket account.
My section icons when viewed in Plex/Web look like basically the following now (I've made some changes since this was captured, but you get the idea...).
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
While this is one of the first suggestions for that feature, the discussion is heavily laced with outdated features or UI references. Therefore closing those older ones in favor of a more recent version
