I saw your post on Community.
I encourage you to go for it. Roku has its own scripting language much like others.
There is also a Channel https://channelstore.roku.com/details/5bd649ba7940dc875cc4f61c20ef5b92/roku-developers
Thanks! I've been working through the tutorial videos and it looks feasible, just wondering how its going to work to have a player control which will pull from the type of live feed URLs I have available. Will see what happens as I get farther in.
If you'd like to avoid the programming, and, get up to speed quickly, Direct Publisher can accommodate your needs. Using a JSON feed, your channel can contain both Live and Archived content.
Our JSON feed is provided by vimeo. For each showcase you create in vimeo, a feed is provided for that showcase. Our channel will show a set of showcases, one for each series of videos. We additionally have a DASH link for the live video to be shown separately. This isn't provided in the feed as its a different source, not through vimeo. We'll also want to check the contents of the dash link to see if the feed is currently live.
So far this appears like it'll work well with a custom channel. I'm not sure if direct publish would provide this level of customization and functionality in our channel, but by going through the custom channel tutorial I think we can get this working.
Keep in mind, you are not required to use the JSON output from Vimeo. There's nothing preventing you from modifying it to meet your needs. In fact, you can merge multiple feed files to create one "master" feed file that can serve as your channel feed. This means you can combine live and archived content into one feed file. Your showcases can then be used to define channel categories.
