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tamekariley
Channel Surfer
5 years ago
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Attempting to Update JSON - My Developer Disappeared

Hi. I have a Roku channel that I developed. I was initially using direct publisher and a tool by Rovidx.  When it stopped working for me, I found a developer who switched me from Direct Publisher t...
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  • 37mediagroup's avatar
    37mediagroup
    5 years ago

    I'm like you more of a DP channel builder, with some coding knowledge. I was able to build Test channels using sdk, and customize them fairly well. Even got unique logos & videos to play.

     

    My suggestion, would be are you able to decipher where each videos code starts and stops? (including brackets, commas etc), and try copying and pasting a video, then just replace its assets like video url, thumbnails, description and video ID#?  I would just try adding one to start, and see if that works. Obviously, keep the 'Original Copy' and then rename the new file with todays date or version2 or something.

     

    You can read thru things here: https://developer.roku.com/docs/features/features-overview.md

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37mediagroup
Roku Guru
5 years ago

I'm like you more of a DP channel builder, with some coding knowledge. I was able to build Test channels using sdk, and customize them fairly well. Even got unique logos & videos to play.

 

My suggestion, would be are you able to decipher where each videos code starts and stops? (including brackets, commas etc), and try copying and pasting a video, then just replace its assets like video url, thumbnails, description and video ID#?  I would just try adding one to start, and see if that works. Obviously, keep the 'Original Copy' and then rename the new file with todays date or version2 or something.

 

You can read thru things here: https://developer.roku.com/docs/features/features-overview.md

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    tamekariley
    Channel Surfer
    5 years ago

    Yes, that’s what I was saying. I can decipher the pattern enough to handle the coding part but wasn’t sure how/where to edit it and turn it into an uploadable file for SDK. I’ve since learned that I don’t need to re-submit a file and any changes I make to the code, once saved, will appear instantly. I was also happy to learn that submitting the link to the code in Direct Publisher also worked. Thank you for your reply. Took me a few persistent days but I think we’ve finally cracked the code. *pun intended* lol

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      37mediagroup
      Roku Guru
      5 years ago

      Nice!  Yeah, I used to re-submit my channel each change but learned that just changing the file/code Roku re-crawls it and ingests it approximately every 6 hours. So fyi, it may not always update 'immediately', but I think its periodic or every 6 hours tbh.

       

      I'm a little confused, you mention submitting the link to the code in Direct Publisher?  I thought you had a SDK channel. You can't mix & match right?! Why would updating to link in DP update your SDK channel?  Maybe its a caveat or 'glitch' to the Roku Developer Dashboard or I'm confusing things about what you're saying.

      • tamekariley's avatar
        tamekariley
        Channel Surfer
        5 years ago

        No, I created a second channel to test in but I couldn't figure out what to upload for the SDK.  I tried the JSON file itself, then tried zipping it, but that didn't work. Then I remembered the Direct Publisher had a place for a JSON link, so I switched the test channel from SDK to DP and entered the JSON link to the code I was working on and It worked.  I then noticed that my live channel also updated every time I edited my code.