Roku Direct Publisher

[Baradanikto]

@johnary First, playlists are not required.  Your feed file has at least one problem.  I loaded it into The Channel Feed Manager and it reported the following:

An error has been detected in your feed file: 'Invalid type. Expected Array but got String. Path 'shortFormVideos[71].genres', line 1953, position 24.'

I then took a look at your feed file and noticed this:

"genres": "",

Genres is an array of strings.  Your feed file defines it as a single string. 

[johnary]

Thank you @Baradanikto and @ferdiworks. I just scheduled my DP channel to update to SDK. You're help was invaluable.

[ferdiworks]

Glad to hear you are up and running, But don't thank me, all the credit goes to @Baradanikto for his work in the DP to Scenegraph software. I just took an older version of his work and edited it for your feed so you could use your Mac to edit the files!

[mattk27]

We created a SDK tool with a free option as well as one-time purchase options for monetization and etc, here:  https://sdkconverter.com/

[dhacker291]

Thanks for this! I have my channel created and looking great.

I am at a loss on how to do the Deep linking stuff in order to pass Channel Behavior Analysis. If anyone can point me to some resources to I would appreciate it.
When I first converted it using Roku's basic DP to SceneGraph I was not required to do the deep linking.

Thanks,

David

[ferdiworks]

Ig you are using the DP to SceneGraph software the deeplinking is done for you and you just complete it in the Roku developer dashboard under the deep linkng Tab:

From the dropdown select video type from your feed file, for example = shortform, movie, tvspecial or series!
Content ID = Add one video ID number from your feed file
Content Title = Add The video title!
Only do this for one video click to save it = Done!
Publish channel!

[matrixebiz]

Hey Gang, I kind of have a backward request 🙂 I have a SceneGraph channel based on this template here;

GitHub - rokudev/videoplayer-channel: SceneGraph version of the SDK1 VideoPlayer Channel

Which I have paid a developer for in the past to get issues with it fixed like Deep linking, Roku Pay Subscription, etc.. and I was wondering if anyone is able to convert it to Direct Publisher then I can use this app here going forward to convert it back to SDK for any future fixes/compliant issue, etc... so I don't have to pay a developer again to update it for me? Thank you

[Baradanikto]

There may be a bit of a disconnect here.  The only requirement for Direct Publisher was a JSON feed file.  There was no coding required from the user.  If you want to use the wizard tool, you only need your JSON feed file that defines your channel.

[matrixebiz]

Oh, so all DP channels basically have the same GUI/Look in how it presents the content?

[Baradanikto]

@matrixebiz That is correct.  The UI for DP channels was a "Grid" style layout.