Roku Developer Program

[roquoonewbie]

It is still happening to me, almost every time.

The box resonds to the POST with a 200 OK, and it does launch the channel store, but in the process of displaying the details of the channel in the store, the whole box freezes and reboots.

Can someone else give this a try? Just go to Netflix, then send the external control point POST to launch the channel store app to display the details of Hulu Plus (or any other app you may have on your Roku).

[RokuMarkn]

I can't reproduce it, although I'm not running that exact firmware. Can you PM your serial number to me? Also, do you have Hulu Plus (the target in the Channel Store) installed when you do this?

--Mark

[EnTerr]

I tried and cannot reproduce the issue on Roku2 XS fw5.1.443, with or without Hulu installed.

What you are sending does not seem valid HTTP/1.1 to me - have you tried "POST ... HTTP/1.0"? Not that it excuses box crashing.

[roquoonewbie]

So it turns out that the box only crashes if a dev app is installed while the external request is made.

Deleting a dev app "fixed" it. Adding the dev app back caused it to crash again (even though the dev app was in no way involved with the external control point request).

So this is not a "mass" issue, but definitely a bug Roku introduced with the new Channel Store UI in the latest firmware.

And, yes, the POST info was a valid HTTP 1.1 POST. I even used IE to do it with the same result.

And the box was in all cases replying back with a 200 OK response, and began to execute the launch of the Channel Store app.

It just crashed while painting the Channel Store screen (thumbnails were missing but most data was visible at the time of crash).

[TheEndless]

"roquoonewbie" wrote:
So it turns out that the box only crashes if a dev app is installed while the external request is made.

Deleting a dev app "fixed" it. Adding the dev app back caused it to crash again (even though the dev app was in no way involved with the external control point request).

I always have a dev app installed, including when I did the testing of the issue earlier in this thread. Are you seeing it with any dev app, or just a specific one?