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brysonhyte's avatar
brysonhyte
Visitor
16 years ago

Autostart application on boot

I'm currently working with a Roku XR and developing a flickr-style application. Is it possible to enable a user to select an option in my applicaiton (or device config) to autostart my application instead of going to the main menu?

Second, is it possible to progmatically remove the other main menu channels?
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8 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Visitor
    16 years ago
    Doubt it can do that. I know for sure that Netflix can't be removed for contractual reasons, so I doubt they will let anyone remove the other channels.
  • bcl's avatar
    bcl
    Channel Surfer
    16 years ago
    Not to mention that it would annoy the hell out of the users!
  • RokuKevin's avatar
    RokuKevin
    Visitor
    16 years ago
    We do not allow developers to change the channel lineup programmatically. Users have this control though. They can remove any channel they'd like to through the channel store.

    channel store->My Channels->Desired channel->remove channel.

    --Kevin
  • Burkhardi's avatar
    Burkhardi
    Visitor
    16 years ago
    "bcl" wrote:
    Not to mention that it would annoy the hell out of the users!


    It would be an option...
  • Burkhardi's avatar
    Burkhardi
    Visitor
    16 years ago
    "RokuKevin" wrote:
    We do not allow developers to change the channel lineup programmatically. Users have this control though. They can remove any channel they'd like to through the channel store.

    channel store->My Channels->Desired channel->remove channel.

    --Kevin


    Hi Kevin,
    So there is no code in the bootstrap where it looks at the USB slot and it there is something there to mount and said file is the right file name that it would auto.exe it?

    The Roku PhotoBridge had something like this and if a CF card was in the players CF slot on boot, the system would look at the slot during boot and if it has a card it and it was the right file name it would run it. It was used for updating the firmware if you didn't have an internet connection or for running custom scripts.

    I have mine setup this way to mount a swap file upon boot and I could also have it run a certain app if I wanted it to (wrote that into the script).

    Anyway, just curious, Matt
  • RokuKevin's avatar
    RokuKevin
    Visitor
    16 years ago
    There is no way to use the USB port at this time.

    We will enable some limited uses of the port in a future release.

    --Kevin
  • krzykat's avatar
    krzykat
    Visitor
    15 years ago
    Is it possible for when the Roku starts up to "automatically" begin a certain channel / app via programming or some other method? Similar to let's say an "Autoexec.bat" file used to do?

    I've got the latest ROKU version.
  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    15 years ago
    This has been asked a few times and the answer has always been "No". I believe the Brightsign product has been suggested as a possible alternative.

    -JT