Roku Direct Publisher

[avodahsoftware]

Looking at my channel feed status reports, it looks like the direct publisher feed is refreshed a couple of times throughout the day. I have a live stream that I am trying to incorporate; however, I don't have the m3u8 URL until close to the time of the live stream start. 

Is there a way to programmatically force a refresh of my Direct Publisher Feed? Just trying to figure out how to make sure I can update my Direct Publisher feed with my live feed URL and then update the Feed so that the Roku channel sees it.

Thoughts?

[37mediagroup]

I just ran a simple graphic for hours, all day, until start time. This way I new everyones Roku was probably updated to the newest cache. Just a simple thumbnail so no one stays tuned in for hours & eats up your bandwidth, you can put in the video details too "Live Show Starts At 8PM" or whatever.

[avodahsoftware]

I would like this to happen automatically where I don't have to login and manually refresh the feed. Is there a way to trigger a refresh of the feed programatically? Or is it smart enough to view the liveFeed start time for the live feed to trigger a refresh before this, so that it can receive the video link? 

[Baradanikto]

You might want to take a look at using the validity period object in the feed file.  From Partner Success:

Why doesn't live content show up in my Direct Publisher channel?

Pam

• 5 months ago
• Updated

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Issue

Live stream does not dynamically appear in Direct Publisher channel. 

Environment

Direct Publisher 

Answer

Make sure you have validityPeriodStart (and optionally, validityPeriodEnd) enabled in your Direct Publisher feed.