Roku Developer Program

[healingtv]

Hi I heard that Roku can make a HDMI streaming stick for a single channel. Is it true? I am preparing a christian TV channel in ROKU and I want to show only my channel or a couple of channels which I choose to put in Roku stick. Is it technically possible?

[dcrandall]

I'm talking out of my backside on this, but I think the stick pairs with a user account. So you make your user account, add the channels to it accordingly... then in permissions lock-down adding more channels.

At that point, I think you can take the stick wherever you want it.

[kc8pql]

^Humm...not sure that's entirely correct. You can set a PIN in your account for adding pay channels, but I'm not sure it prevents adding free ones.
Anyone???

[RokuBen]

The account PIN settings allow requiring a PIN for just paid channels or for adding any channel.

[EnTerr]

"venrooy" wrote:
But can't you still do a factory reset even if you don't have the pin?

Of course - and then configure it for another user account. Or one can steal it. Or can replace a given stick with another stick, configured with completely different channels. There is nothing that a PIN can do for that. And it is not trying to - but what it does is what was asked: prevent casual installation of other channels.

PS. this topic probably should be in General, not Devs