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[svencoop]

Roku says they will NOT be updating their Analytics lib to support Firebase!

Does anybody have any ideas how to log Firebase events from RSG???

Any wiz kids out there that can convert the JavaScript to BrightScript?

https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup

Steve

[andersonvix]

Hello,

Here we developed a integration with Google Analytics 4 (That is built on top of Firebase Analytics)

You can see here:

https://github.com/vixtech/roku-google-analytics-4

[developer_uj24]

Hi, I wanted to communicate and perform CRUD operations with firebase Realtime database can you provide any help?

[uj24153]

https://github.com/vixtech/roku-google-analytics-4

this worked fine
Thanks

[svencoop]

Here is my code, not pretty and there is a lot of old unused/commented out stuff, I have not looked at this for a long time...

docLocation is your Google database name - you can see it from BigQuery - it is named  something like analytics_123456789 containing the tables events_ and events_intraday_ 

example: 

BigQuery:   SELECT * FROM `yourdbname.analytics_153576726.events_intraday_20220513` LIMIT 1000

use this:  docLocation: "https://yourdbname.firebaseio.com"

Steve

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- GoogleAnalytics4.xml -->
<!-- ************************************ -->
<!-- Copyright 2021-2021 FutureSoft, Inc. -->
<!-- ************************************ -->

<component name="GoogleAnalytics4" extends="Task">

  <interface>

    <field id="RokuAnalyticsPlayerTitle"    type="string" />
    <field id="RokuAnalyticsPlayerState"    type="string" />
    <field id="RokuAnalyticsEventCategory"  type="string" />
    <field id="RokuAnalyticsEventValue"     type="string" />
    <field id="RokuAnalyticsLoginUserID"    type="string" />

    <!-- Public -->
    <function name="initialize" />
    <function name="setConfig" />
    <function name="setOptions" />
    <function name="start" />
    <function name="logEvent" />
    <function name="logScreenView" />
    <function name="setUserProperties" />
    <function name="setCurrentScreen" />
    <function name="setUserId" />
    <function name="resetAnalyticsData" />

    <field id="httpMethod" type="string" />
    <field id="httpUrl" type="string" />

  </interface>

  <script type="text/brightscript" uri="GoogleAnalytics4.brs" />

</component>

<!-- ************************************
Usage

Bunch of functions used by many screens:
   <script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/components/compUtils.brs" />

Containing:
Function utilPostAnalytics(passedTitle, passedState, passedCategory, passedUserID, passedEvtCnt)
?"utilPostAnalytics()", passedTitle, passedState, passedCategory, passedUserID
    m.GoogleAnalytics4Obj = createObject("roSGNode", "GoogleAnalytics4")
    m.GoogleAnalytics4Obj.setField("RokuAnalyticsPlayerTitle", passedTitle)
    m.GoogleAnalytics4Obj.setField("RokuAnalyticsPlayerState", passedState)
    m.GoogleAnalytics4Obj.setField("RokuAnalyticsEventValue", passedEvtCnt)
    m.GoogleAnalytics4Obj.setField("RokuAnalyticsEventCategory", passedCategory)
    m.GoogleAnalytics4Obj.setField("RokuAnalyticsLoginUserID", passedUserID)
'STOP
    m.GoogleAnalytics4Obj.control = "RUN"
End Function

Examples: We call every 60 seconds to track in realtime...

   sTmpClientID = WhateverCustomerIDYouAssign
   sTmpEventCnt = 1
   utilPostAnalytics(m.videoPlayer.content.Title, "start", "media player", sTmpClientID, sTmpEventCnt)

   sTmpClientID = WhateverCustomerIDYouAssign
   sTmpEventCnt = m.sixtySecTimePassed / 60
   utilPostAnalytics(m.videoPlayer.content.Title, "playing", "media player", sTmpClientID, sTmpEventCnt)

   sTmpClientID = WhateverCustomerIDYouAssign
   sTmpEventCnt = m.sixtySecTimePassed / 60
   utilPostAnalytics(m.audioPlayer.content.Title, "finished", "media player", sTmpClientID, sTmpEventCnt)

************************************ -->


<!-- ************************************
examples debug output sent to Google...
[GoogleAnalytics4] https://analytics.google.com/g/collect
?sid=1611237152&_p=1490261140&_s=1&seg=1&ec=media_player&sr=1280x720&uid=1%3A999999999999%3Aweb%3A7777777777777777777777
&v=2&en=start&sct=279&cid=420d8a2a-d34b-5dd6-9d2f-4305921dacb3&upn.first_open_time=1610744400000
&dl=https%3A%2F%2FBIGQUERY-DBNAME.firebaseio.com&av=4.0.9&custom=unset&ea=start&up.userPropA=USERPROPA
&tid=G-ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP&ul=en_us&cd=media_player&up.id=1%3A999999999999%3Aweb%3A7777777777777777777777
&el=Live%20Stream%20-%20Auf%20Deutsch&an=RokuApp

POST https://analytics.google.com/g/collect
?_p=406324644&_s=1&seg=1&sr=1280x720&uid=1%3A999999999999%3Aweb%3A7777777777777777777777&v=2&en=start
&cid=420d8a2a-d34b-5dd6-9d2f-4305921dacb3&upn.first_open_time=1610744400000&dl=https%3A%2F%2FBIGQUERY-DBNAME.firebaseio.com
&av=4.0.9&up.userPropA=SET%20USER%20PROPERTIES%20HERE&tid=G-ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP&ul=en_us
&up.id=1%3A999999999999%3Aweb%3A7777777777777777777777&EXAMPLEPROPERTY=HERE%20YOU%20CAN%20PUT%20ANY%20CUSTOM%20ARG...
&an=RokuApp
************************************ -->

[svencoop]

The docLocation contains your analytics database name...

From BigQuery find the database containing the tables YOUR-DBNAME.analytics_ and YOUR-DBNAME.analytics_intraday_

Example: 

SELECT * FROM `YOUR-DBNAME.analytics_153576726.events_intraday_20220513` LIMIT 1000

Roku code...

   ...

   docLocation: "https://BIGQUERY-DBNAME.firebaseio.com"

   ...

I tried to paste in code, but Roku tagged it as SPAM and deleted my reply!

I will try again today...

Steve

[svencoop]

Here is my code, very ugly and lots of unused/commented out stuff!

Roku GoogleAnalytics4 XML and BRS

https://pastebin.com/jYM9MU5W#

Steve

[developer_uj24]

Pastebin.com is down and not working.

[Andy42185]

How would you implement and use this with the Remote Config for A/B testing?  We are trying to do an A/B test to show different home screens to see if one design increases engagement over another and I need to fetch remote config values to achieve that.  How would one do that using this implementation?