Roku to sunset Direct Publisher early next year
Here is the official post: https://blog.roku.com/developer/rdp-sunset Lease a custom Roku SDK channel >> https://ottfeed.com/lease
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I'm all the way up to ...
SceneGraph "Build a Roku Channel": Creating a Grid Screen
built channel but when I side load keeps popping up error.
6 hours so far
in the video, the presenter tosses out to add sample art in the image folder resources to the image file and of course, i can't find these images. ANY IDEA WHERE THEY ARE???
I have typed every xml and brs file. I'm using text editor and laid out each script as described in the video. should i be using another program to type these files out?
I think you took a step too far in the process (the instructions do lead this way).
You seem to be coding a channel from scratch, possibly using the 'Hello World' Template. regardless, you should have an 'Images' folder, so the images should be in there.
If you follow these steps, up until about halfway down to 'Testing Your Channel', you should be able to make it a bit quicker. It'll give you a very basic channel interface, you replace the Feed URL in the Manifest file, and swap your images in and such, then load it onto your Roku device following the steps and it should work. There's a caveat or two, (remove the # that begin the lines of the Manifest, and delete the 2nd Feed URL so they don't conflict. Otherwise there's little to no coding required unless you wanted to.
I started from scratch, i figured it was less confusing that way. Turned out i was zipping the files wrong. I was zipping the entire folder instead of zipping files and the 3 folders inside together lol
I have it up now.
I'll finish watching all the videos see if I can tweak things.
Fingers crossed 😉
I've completed building everything from scratch using the developer videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXLCv18IEHsgMiHqiIR4olakj49OHnL0A Everything is working great but I've run into 2 issues I hope someone can help???
The JSON file has the proper tags for each row of videos and was working properly under the direct publisher
Right now only 3 random categories are showing up and my videos are spread around under
categories
shortformvideos
liveFeedswhere can I find some info on setting up the right tags/ categories in my brs or xml files?
Also, I'm looking o how to make an image appear at the top of the channel (like hulu) when someone has highlighted a video. Sorry, I don't know the proper terminology. I'm currently getting the description to appear but would like an image also. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thank you!
Any idea on how to establish categories in the rows, vs just seeing "Series" or "Movies"? I have about 15 different show series and they range in categories form sports, to news, to livfestyle/travel... I'd like to seperate them and even drill down in sports to indicate basketball, vs soccer, vs cornhole...
