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calengineer
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Make hard coded content an external link to it... HELP!!

I currently have a hard code in the channel that goes like the one below... However, how can I place this into an external website and then input a code that replaces all of this so it can load it from the website. Therefore, if I add new content I can simply update the external website.


Function loadConfig() as Object
   arr = [
'##### Format for inputting stream info #####
'## For each channel, enclose in brackets ##
'{
'   Title: Channel Title
'   streamFormat: Channel stream type (ex. "hls", "ism", "mp4", etc..)
'   Logo: Channel Logo (ex. "http://Roku.com/Roku.jpg)
'   Stream: URL to stream (ex. http://hls.Roku.com/talks/xxx.m3u8)
'}
   
{
   Title: "Roku Example One"
   streamFormat: "HLS"
   Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
   Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
   Title: "Roku Example Two"
   streamFormat: "HLS"
   Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
   Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
   Title: "Roku Example Three"
   streamFormat: "mp4"
   Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
   Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
   Title: "Roku Example Four"
   streamFormat: "mp4"
   Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
   Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
   Title: "Roku Example Five"
   streamFormat: "mp4"
   Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
   Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
{
   Title: "Roku Example Six"
   streamFormat: "mp4"
   Logo: "https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=channel+logo&w=267&h=150"
   Stream: "https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/Sintel.mp4"
}
   
   
   
'##### Make sure all Channel content is above this line #####    
   ]
   return arr
End Function
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belltown
Roku Guru

Re: Make hard coded content an external link to it... HELP!!

Are you doing this in a Scene Graph channel or using standard components?
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calengineer
Visitor

Re: Make hard coded content an external link to it... HELP!!

"belltown" wrote:
Are you doing this in a Scene Graph channel or using standard components?

scenegraph
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belltown
Roku Guru

Re: Make hard coded content an external link to it... HELP!!

Take a look at the Task Markup example in the Control Nodes Markup Scene Graph tutorial (https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Control+Nodes+Markup), particularly the contentreader.xml file.
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