Roku Developer Program

[destruk]

"RokuJoel" wrote:
bug filed.

- Joel

Thanks Joel.

[squirreltown]

Endless - have been exiting the channel before side-loading and it seems to be working, so thanks for that tip. Can't use Eclipse so its a few more button pushes each time but it sure beats rebooting.

[destruk]

If you aren't using any 4.x+ features for your channel, you could develop on an original roku box with 3.1 firmware to speed it along. 😉

[EnTerr]

"squirreltown" wrote:
Endless - have been exiting the channel before side-loading and it seems to be working, so thanks for that tip. Can't use Eclipse so its a few more button pushes each time but it sure beats rebooting.

Just insert this in the beginning of your build script

# wake up/interrupt Roku
curl -d '' http://$ROKU_DEV_TARGET:8060/keypress/Home

[TheEndless]

"EnTerr" wrote:

"squirreltown" wrote:
Endless - have been exiting the channel before side-loading and it seems to be working, so thanks for that tip. Can't use Eclipse so its a few more button pushes each time but it sure beats rebooting.

Just insert this in the beginning of your build script

# wake up/interrupt Roku
curl -d '' http://$ROKU_DEV_TARGET:8060/keypress/Home

I'd stick two in there, just in case you've left it long enough for the screensaver to kick in.

[squirreltown]

Hey thank you both but i don't use a script, just right click and zip the folders manually. I have made some ECP applescripts (am on mac) and thought about doing that but it's really not a burden, normally all over automation but for some reason that process has never bugged me enough.

[belltown]

"RokuJoel" wrote:
bug filed.

- Joel

The posts in this thread seem to refer to the 5.4.3358 firmware. I seem to be encountering the same problem with the 5.5/410 firmware. Has the previous bug been fixed yet, or is my problem a new one?

I decided to develop a screensaver based on an roScreen component a couple of days ago. This is my first experience with either of those concepts, so I was expecting a few hiccups along the way. I noticed that every time I tried to side-load my development channel when the roScreen code was running, my Roku froze, the side-load operation (using curl) timed out, and none of the remote keys had any effect. The only thing I could do was unplug the Roku and re-boot it. I did not have this problem when running the same code on the 3.1 firmware.

A couple of dozen re-boots later I came upon this thread. I can work around the problem by exiting the channel before doing another side-load, and I got the screensaver finished, so I'm not overly concerned about it any more, just thought I'd let you know it looked like the problem (or a similar one) was still out there.