How to add password to Private Channel?

"jacesparks" wrote:
I just created my first private channel, and I wanted to know if there is a way to prompt a user to input a password before they can add the channel

No. But since you need to know the install code to add the channel, that effectively is a password. There's no list of private channels published, so only the people you give the code to will know it.

No. But since you need to know the install code to add the channel, that effectively is a password. There's no list of private channels published, so only the people you give the code to will know it.

Thank you so much for your response. I greatly appreciate it.

Actually there are a number of private channel directories
On the Internet. Just Google ROKU private channel listings

"NewManLiving" wrote:
Actually there are a number of private channel directories
On the Internet. Just Google ROKU private channel listings

Ok. But a channel doesn't get into those directories unless the owner submits it.
i should have said Roku doesn't publish a list.

Anyone who added the channel 'could' add it to a private channel list, give the install code to a friend, etc etc - so at least by having the channel itself prompt for a password you could track IPs or something to prevent widespread abuse of your bandwidth. This could be done with a few keyboard screens at the start of when your app loads to prompt for a user name and password, check it against your server, and deny unauthorized/untrusted users. As it's a private channel as well, you could have a master list of device serial numbers who can run it, or a designated approval list of IPs accessing your server as well as tracking the user agent of incoming requests. As to a 'walkthru' on doing this - good luck. Maybe start with the basics - get a user login system working first, and ask for little pieces of the puzzle you encounter issues with as you see them.