Pre Load Channel

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I would like to supply the Roku player with our channels already loaded.

Basically, If I have 3 channels, and I buy 100 players for my clients. Is there an anyway, to go online and enter the Players ID# and assign my channels to these players? Then when the clients turn them on and they connect, my channels would be there, so they dont have to go to the channel store and add them.

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Link them all to the same owner.roku.com account.

I dont know if there is a way to automate this.

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“bbakernc” wrote:
I would like to supply the Roku player with our channels already loaded.

Basically, If I have 3 channels, and I buy 100 players for my clients. Is there an anyway, to go online and enter the Players ID# and assign my channels to these players? Then when the clients turn them on and they connect, my channels would be there, so they dont have to go to the channel store and add them.

Others have asked for this and Roku hasn’t seemed to be very interested in this, at least in these forums. You can try contacting them directly, as if they would allow this I think it would be on some sort of partnered basis.

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I think it’d be a great idea to have some way to disable the channel store. That way children couldn’t add content to it that you don’t want them to have access to. You could, say, set up the channels you want the box to have and then lock out any possibility of adding new channels as a parental control feature.

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PIN settings do that.

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PIN settings do that…that would be great.

Can you tell me where to find some info about that?

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when you first link your streaming player on http://owner.roku.com/ during all of the dialogs, there is a choice of choosing your PIN (this comes directly after the payment method request for adding channels) you have 3 options:

  1. require a Pin for all channels
  2. require a PIN for paid channels
  3. never require a PIN
    (I’m pretty sure thats the order, no guarantees)

After making your selection you chose a 4 digit PIN for adding channels.

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If you login to your account on roku.com, the main page has a selection in the middle of the page that says “Channel Store PIN”. Click the “Update” button to change the setting.

–Mark

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I see you have answered the question about “locking” the player so people can’t add channels.

Any info on how to Pre load channels on the player when we ship them?

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Thanks!

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“bbakernc” wrote:
I see you have answered the question about “locking” the player so people can’t add channels.

Any info on how to Pre load channels on the player when we ship them?

I think the easiest way, especially if you plan on locking them with PIN anyhow as you ship them would be to link them all to the same account. Im not sure if there is a limit as to how many can be on a single account, but I do believe that all RSP’s linked to the same account have the same channels available, I could be wrong though.

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DerekHelps has a good solution for smaller numbers of Roku’s that need the same set of channels from one developer setting up all units…

Contact partners@roku.com if you have volume in the hundreds of units or more.

–Kevin

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We did contact them and they said, you cant do it.