Linking Roku to website through soap web Service

Please look at the Device Registration and Linking guide for our recommended way of linking the box to your web site.

--Kevin

Hi,

a) I would like to consume my webservice in my channel. how can i do that?
b) After consuming the web service, i would like to show the data in real time either by using video or by image. is it possible?

a) Use roUrlTransfer to GET/POST to your webservice and use the BrightScript XML parsing capabilities (Brightscript Reference Section 4.5)
b) Yes, but in general the video screen and poster screens will download the images and video themselves.... You will supply links to these components.

--Kevin

Before developing and using web services, do we have to create a registration process first?

There is a sample called "register", would that be a good starting point.

It all depends on your web service. Registration and linking is purely optional for a developer. If your service requires authentication to return data then you may have to use some kind of linking system.

Joel