Connecting to port 9000 to run debug in Visual Studio

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Error Message: “Failed to connect to Roku at (IP ADDRESS) on port 9000. Make sure you have the on device component running on your Roku.” Has anyone came across this issue?

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This happens when you’re trying to use one of the panels such as “SceneGraph Inspector” in VSCode. Those panels work by having a small scenegraph “on-device-component” running inside your app. Right below that error, there should be instructions on how to enable that functionality.

  1. Set “injectRdbOnDeviceComponent”: true in .vscode/launch.json
  2. Add the following comment in main.brs after calling screen.show(): ’ vscode_rdb_on_device_component_entry