How to implment an UPnP client and web browser?

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Hi all,

I’d like to implement a channel as an upnp client that can search for servers for different device types and then connect to the server’s configuration page (web page)
and may do some configuration.
I googled and found Roku SDK can’t achieve this. :cry:
Is there a way to implement an UPnP client and web browser? Does NDK can ? :roll:

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What makes you think the SDK can’t achieve this?

  • Joel
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“RokuJoel” wrote:
What makes you think the SDK can’t achieve this?

  • JoelThe upnp stuff is more-or-less doable at this point (Greubel’s been doing good work with Chaneru), but the public sdk isn’t really up to implementing a from-scratch browser, which was the second part of the OP’s question. It might be within the realm of possibility to parse specific device config pages, if they were reasonably simple. You could then build a Roku UI representing the same settings as the config page, make changes to the device settings and finally send those changes back as POST or GET requests to the device in question. But that would be a fair amount of custom work for every device you’d want to support, and if the idea is to support a wide range of products, it’s probably not a workable solution.
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Yes, for servers that don’t have anything like a REST style API you would have to do some really unpleasant work to support them.

  • Joel
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Yes, because Roku said in developer guide that developers can easily and quickly to build a channel w/o too much coding, so I think it would be easy. :cry:
And the SDK documentation is not that helpful for coding. :x

Eventually, I have a server that has UPnP server built-in with unusual urn (not like media server term) and I’d like to find this server and gather info from its device description published via UPnP. And then I can access its configuration page via web browsing and do some configuration. The server’s configuration pages has a lot and I don’t want to waste time parsing the content item by item. So I’d like to have NDK to put c-code library to have UPnP client and web browsing support. Where/How can I get the NDK? The developer program document said that developers can request for NDK but how? :?:
If there’s no way to request for NDK and SDK did can achieve UPnP client and web browsing, is there any sample code and documentation for instruction?
Thanks in advance

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“selina.lai” wrote:
Yes, because Roku said in developer guide that developers can easily and quickly to build a channel w/o too much coding, so I think it would be easy. :cry:
And the SDK documentation is not that helpful for coding. :x

Eventually, I have a server that has UPnP server built-in with unusual urn (not like media server term) and I’d like to find this server and gather info from its device description published via UPnP. And then I can access its configuration page via web browsing and do some configuration. The server’s configuration pages has a lot and I don’t want to waste time parsing the content item by item. So I’d like to have NDK to put c-code library to have UPnP client and web browsing support. Where/How can I get the NDK? The developer program document said that developers can request for NDK but how? :?:
If there’s no way to request for NDK and SDK did can achieve UPnP client and web browsing, is there any sample code and documentation for instruction?
Thanks in advance
It’s at the very bottom of the FAQ for Roku Developers on this page:
http://www.roku.com/developer
The NDK is not yet public so please contact us at partners@roku.com if you are interested.

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Hi,

I sent email and got the reply:
The NDK isn’t publicly available at this time.

What can I do next?

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ACode where do I put the code I have. :laughing: