Newbie Here Needing Help Getting Started

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Do I need to download Brightscript & SceneGraph or are there tools on the developer website that I use?

Thanks!

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BrightScript and SceneGraph are not downloadable. They’re shipped ON the roku devices themselves, so you need to upload your zipped source code onto the device to test them. Here are some rough “getting started” steps:

  • buy a roku and enable developer mode on it
  • download a sample project
  • install the sample project by navigating to the ip address of your roku (find that in the Roku network settings) and uploading the file
  • you can also connect using telnet to port 8085 of that same Roku IP address in order to view the console logs of the sideloaded app.

Now, I would recommend using the BrightScript extension for VSCode as it makes a lot of this much easier. (full disclosure, I wrote it). Also join the Roku Community slack so you can ask questions (you will probably have many, this platform is quite interesting).

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Better yet…for a quick start, download the DP2SceneGraph wizard in my signature below. It will create a new channel for you in a short amount of time. You can then browse through the generated Brightscript source code using Visual Studio Code or some other editor to lean how it all works.