# Genkey dont work

**URL:** <https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876>\
**Category:** Archived\
**Tags:** roku-developer-program\
**Created:** [December 23, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876 "2016-12-23T22:00:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Blackhawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Blackhawk](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/Blackhawk)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/1 "2016-12-23T22:00:03Z")

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I cant generate the key for my channel

[youtube:230fs6zh]CLo3yqM1YdI[/youtube:230fs6zh]

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**Author:** ![belltown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@belltown](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/belltown)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/2 "2016-12-23T22:37:45Z")

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Issue the genkey command to port 8080. [https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Packaging+Your+Application](https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Packaging+Your+Application)

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**Author:** ![Blackhawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Blackhawk](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/Blackhawk)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/3 "2016-12-24T00:27:29Z")

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I did what the instructions said but I don’t see the serial number

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**Author:** ![renojim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@renojim](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/renojim)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/4 "2016-12-24T01:32:36Z")

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I don’t think you did what the instructions say. From your video, your showing that you connected to port 8085 (the debug port). You have to telnet to port 8080.

-JT

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**Author:** ![Blackhawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Blackhawk](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/Blackhawk)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/5 "2016-12-24T02:06:33Z")

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The instructions told me to do exactly this  
[youtube:g2efwj6t]1qFJWyHK96c[/youtube:g2efwj6t]

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**Author:** ![EnTerr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@EnTerr](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/EnTerr)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/6 "2016-12-24T02:16:31Z")

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Oh boy. I appreciate documenting your pain and suffering.

What “instructions” are you talking about?  
The ones to follow are here: [https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc … keyUtility](https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Packaging+Your+Application#PackagingYourApplication-RunthegenkeyUtility)

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**Author:** ![Blackhawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Blackhawk](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/Blackhawk)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/7 "2016-12-24T02:28:37Z")

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The instructions says "From a computer, run your telnet application, using the IP address found in step 1 and port number 8080. For example, if the IP address were 192.168.1.45, you would type:

telnet 192.168.1.45 8080"  
I did that in the video  
I don’t see any serial number

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**Author:** ![EnTerr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@EnTerr](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/EnTerr)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/genkey-dont-work/5876/8 "2016-12-24T07:21:36Z")

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You did `telnet 8080` which won’t work because of missing IP - and then you did `telnet 192.168.1.73 8085` which did not work because of wrong port. Need to get both right.