While I made a feeble attempt at building a channel several years ago, I just retired and thought I would give it another go. I have a pretty good handle on Visual Basic, and did some dabbling with .NET when VB6 was depreciated. I did some PHP scripting on web pages to connect to a MySQL server as well, so I’m not a complete newbie to programming. But I can’t seem to find where to start with the Roku platform.
I see that Visual Studio can be used for this purpose, and since I had some familiarity with it I thought it would be a reasonable place to start. I have installed the latest community version, and have downloaded the BrightScript extensions from GitHub. But I can’t find any menu within VS that matches the images Roku shows for installing the extensions, nor any guidance on starting to use VS for this purpose. So I would appreciate some suggestions on getting VS configured for Roku development. I don’t even know if I installed VS with the proper languages since it’s not a Windows, Mac or Android based device I’m developing for.
My intent is to create a channel to connect to a DLNA server such as Serviio, and in fact I would probably try to make it specifically for Serviio. So I’m looking for some guidance on opening a network socket and listening for a specific port. I feel comfortable I can muddle my way through connecting to the Serviio API once I can get those basic functions working.
