Roku Developer Program

[coskel]

Revisiting creating a new channel, first time since 2016.

Using Visual Studio Code with the Brightscript extension installed.

I have downloaded the sample files from Git hub to play around with, if I edit any of them, repackage as a zip and side load, they fail.

Only trying basic edits to text at this point.

sideloading the clean sample channels, works, just not after any edits.

Do I need to save them as a specific file extension?

Thanks in advance.

[necrotek]

Have you opened up the zip and made sure that the manifest is included in the zip? and in the top level. What is the error message?

[coskel]

yep, its definitely there.

Error is:

Application Received: 414389 bytes stored.

Install Failure: No manifest. Invalid package.

[necrotek]

are you on an apple MAC computer? if you create the zip on a Mac it includes system files that can cause a zip to fail.

[coskel]

Nope, on a PC.

[necrotek]

Are you still having the issue or did you solve the issue?

How are you creating the zip?

when you open the zip you should see:

dir. components

dir. images

dir. source

file. manifest 

If the first thing you see is a directory with the name of the folder you zipped then that is incorrect format for the zip. The above structure needs to be in the root of the zip.

[coskel]

...and I'm an idiot. It's been so long since I created one of these, forgot that step.

SIGH.

Sorry to waste your time. Many thanks for getting back to me, though. I really appreciate it.

Kel

[necrotek]

No worries, happy to help with even the simplest of problems when I can.