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[rsaw3rd]

{
  "providerName": "RockinghamUpdate",
  "language": "en-us",
  "lastUpdated": "2020-02-11T18:12:32.125Z",
  "liveFeeds": [
    {
      "id": "2382322212",
      "title": "Rockingham County News & Meetings",
      "shortDescription": "News shorts and Municipal Meetings from Rockingham County, NC",
      "longDescription": "News shorts and Municipal Meetings from Rockingham County, NC",
      "thumbnail": "https://www.rceno.com/RCENO/images/RU-Large.jpg",
      "genres": [
        "news"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "news"
      ],
      "releaseDate": "2020-02-11",
      "content": {
        "dateAdded": "2020-02-11T14:14:54.431Z",
        "captions": [

        ],
        "videos": [
          {
            "url": "https://app.viloud.tv/1/channel/50538c870f5eafa6c8384a1e9217763e.m3u8",
            "quality": "HD",
            "videoType": "MP4",
            "bitrate": 1000
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

[37mediagroup]

Seems valid. What happened when you submitted it to Roku?

Also, please be aware where you're posting this and try to post in the Direct Publisher section https://community.roku.com/t5/Roku-Direct-Publisher/bd-p/roku-direct-publisher .  This is the straight developer/hand coded section & it's gotta be annoying to them as they constantly have been getting DP posts in here.

[rsaw3rd]

I get a validation Red Exclamation point on the Feed Status, so I trimmed down the JSON to the following (I should mention that this is a Liner Feed, that ideally would start to play once the channel is selected but I am unsure on how to code that in JSON) 

{
	"providerName": "RockinghamUpdate",
	"language": "en-US",
	"lastUpdated": "2016-10-06T18:12:32.125Z",
	"shortFormVideos": [{
		"id": "fd",
		"title": "News Shorts And Municipal Meetings",
		"shortDescription": "News Shorts and Municipal Meetings From the Rockingham County, NC Area",
		"thumbnail": "https://www.rceno.com/RCENO/images/400-90-RU.jpg",
		"genres": [
			"news"
		],
		"tags": [
			"broadcasts",
			"live"
		],
		"releaseDate": "2020-02-11",
		"content": {
			"dateAdded": "2020-02-11T14:14:54.431Z",
			"captions": [

			],
			"videos": [{
				"url": "https://app.viloud.tv/1/channel/50538c870f5eafa6c8384a1e9217763e.m3u8",
				"quality": "HD",
				"videoType": "HLS"
			}]
		}
	}]
}

[37mediagroup]

Sometimes the red exclamation means it's still processing, and if you click into it, there's a Refresh button you can press. Otherwise might take 3-5 minutes but sometimes longer. (Although, maybe its an orange marker, not red, I forget).  Anyway, generally if it is an error when it says "84 lines ingested, 1 error" or whatever you can click the < before the "1 error" part and it acts as a drop down. When it drops down it typically describes the error in more detail. 

[rsaw3rd]

Thank You - The Exclamation point has turned off - however, I am not receiving a video feed when checking the channel, I am not sure what I am doing wrong - Earlier, I had a feed from a much more complex code (I copied from another's example for a Twitch stream and I replaced my m3u8 link into the code, however there were a lot of broken links that were included as they had Playlists, individual videos, etc. I tried to trim that code down to just the inclusion of my m3u8 link and it returned a valid json code, but Now I have no video .... I am certain it is something pretty simple (It most often is in life) but I am overlooking it .... Here is the current trimmed down json --- any thoughts as to why I am not receiving a video on the Test Roku Channel? When I click Preview on the Manage My Channel option on Developer Roku I see a placeholder for the video stream .....

{"providerName":"RockinghamUpdate","language":"en-us","lastUpdated":"2020-02-11T18:12:32.125Z","liveFeeds":[{"id":"201708127","title":"News \u0026 Municipal Meetings","shortDescription":"News from Rockingham County, NC","longDescription":"News and Municipal Meetings From the Rockingham County, NC Area","thumbnail":"http://www.rceno.com/RCENO/images/RU-Large.jpg","genres":["news"],"tags":["news"],"releaseDate":"2020-02-11","content":{"dateAdded":"2020-02-11T14:14:54.431Z","captions":[],"videos":[{"url":"https://app.viloud.tv/1/channel/50538c870f5eafa6c8384a1e9217763e.m3u8","quality":"HD","videoType":"HLS","bitrate":1000}]}}]}

[37mediagroup]

The very last option in the Manage My Channel is Publish. You'll need to click that to actually submit it. Otherise its just kinda testing and preliminary.

[Baradanikto]

It looks like you may have coded the feed file by hand.  You've got some problems with it.

1.   Your date fields do not match the Json spec expected format.
2.   You included a 'releaseDate' for the liveFeed object when it does not require it.
3.   You have not specified a required 'brandedThumbnail' value.

The above are some of the issues that may cause you problems.  Note, Json linters will not catch logic errors, or, feed file requirements. 

In my experience, Json validation through the Developer Portal is not forgiving.  The most subtle error can cause the channel to not display, or, display incorrectly.