I am wanting to make my own Roku channel for my website users. However I need some step by step help on how to register and link roku devices to the user accounts. I have seen it be done with Hulu and others and I hope some one may be willing to help. Thanks in advance.
“TheEndless” wrote:
http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Device+Registration+And+Linking
I have read those but need step by step on how to make them and where to store them and have them work as they should.
Any other help?
Without knowing more about your server backend, it’s not really possible to help you any further. As far as a step-by-step guide, you’re unlikely to find that, as it needs to be written specific to your application. There are a number of threads here that discuss different methods, so a search for “linking” might get you started.
“TheEndless” wrote:
Without knowing more about your server backend, it’s not really possible to help you any further. As far as a step-by-step guide, you’re unlikely to find that, as it needs to be written specific to your application. There are a number of threads here that discuss different methods, so a search for “linking” might get you started.
Can we chat and I can give you details on my server to hopefully point me in the right direction?
“wcwman18” wrote:
“TheEndless” wrote:
Without knowing more about your server backend, it’s not really possible to help you any further. As far as a step-by-step guide, you’re unlikely to find that, as it needs to be written specific to your application. There are a number of threads here that discuss different methods, so a search for “linking” might get you started.Can we chat and I can give you details on my server to hopefully point me in the right direction?
It’s unlikely that I’m the appropriate person to give you that direction. I’m more of a front-end developer. You’re better off posting the details here, so other developers and/or Roku employees who might have a similar set up can help.
Ok, I am looking to create my channel with all the features at http://www.instanttvchannel.com
Where I need help is https://www.instanttvchannel.com/helpnn/wordpress I do not use wordpress and I currently use IPB.
I need a solution for my IPB forum and to be able to link my user accounts with the roku app that I create.
I am currently running a server with a linux OS.
“wcwman18” wrote:
Ok, I am looking to create my channel with all the features at http://www.instanttvchannel.com
Have you asked the folks over at Instant TV Channel for help? If you’re using their service to create your channel, then they may be able to help you implement the linking process.
“TheEndless” wrote:
“wcwman18” wrote:
Ok, I am looking to create my channel with all the features at http://www.instanttvchannel.com
Have you asked the folks over at Instant TV Channel for help? If you’re using their service to create your channel, then they may be able to help you implement the linking process.
They have the wordpress plug in but I don’t use wordpress so they can’t really help me write my own server side code. This is what I was told.
The free Wordpress plugin, which is written in PHP, can be used an example to show how the API could used with other website frameworks. You can write your own server-side code to communicate with Roku players running your channels
You could hire one of the channel developers here to write your server code for your linking process. Without knowing more specifics about your integration it’d be difficult to give you direction that you’d be completely satisfied with.
To expand on that, you’ll want to be sure you have some kind of webserver installed on your linux server machine, probably with php or asp, and some kind of database to store what you need for quick reference lookups like SQL or MySQL.
All the Roku does is either generate a code, or ask your server for a code, and the server would have a way to check the code is valid and link the roku to a user ID, and then return a value to roku so it knows it’s been linked. It’s probably difficult to do the first time, but once you have that working the rest of the queries (search, billing, viewing logs, mailing out free T-SHIRTS, etc etc) is fairly easy.
“destruk” wrote:
You could hire one of the channel developers here to write your server code for your linking process. Without knowing more specifics about your integration it’d be difficult to give you direction that you’d be completely satisfied with.
To expand on that, you’ll want to be sure you have some kind of webserver installed on your linux server machine, probably with php or asp, and some kind of database to store what you need for quick reference lookups like SQL or MySQL.
All the Roku does is either generate a code, or ask your server for a code, and the server would have a way to check the code is valid and link the roku to a user ID, and then return a value to roku so it knows it’s been linked. It’s probably difficult to do the first time, but once you have that working the rest of the queries (search, billing, viewing logs, mailing out free T-SHIRTS, etc etc) is fairly easy.
Well, here are the basics of my current set up.
I have a linux server that my website is hosted on. It has PHP and SQL available. I can create a new database within CPanel. I use IPBoard as my forum software. Hope maybe that helps someone to help me.
Though it is a old post, I am also in the same exact situation. Can somebody help me please? InstantTV is not of much help here.
I am almost done with my channel coding, but got struck with this linking step.
A quick & dirty solution might be to use a separate WordPress-based website for the Registration & Linking, in order to use the Instant TV Channel plugin without re-writing it for another framework. Then you can link from your existing non-WordPress website to the WordPress website only for the Roku Registration & Linking functions.
Alternatively, if you still want to avoid using WordPress, there is an API document that describes what is required, so it shouldn’t be too difficult for a programmer experienced in whatever framework you are using to implement Registration & Linking with Instant TV Channel. Here’s the document: http://ex.irchan.com/docs/irc_reg_and_link.pdf
