Stuck on Please Wait. Loading...

[adamesq]

I've been using an MRSS feed from JWPlayer since maybe 2017 for my channel. (The JSON feed for JWPlayer has never worked.) I tried doing Roku's conversion. I side loaded the channel with the MRSS feed. All went well (except categories didn't show...just one long feed of content.) I got all the way through packaging...then ran into an issue with Deep Linking. Entering one or 2 items into the Deep Linking section on the dashboard got rid of the error, but I'm concerned that hitting Publish will cause the channel to go POOF.

SOOOO, I'm trying DP2SceneGraphWizard. This results in the channel starting to boot (via side loading), then getting Please Wait. Loading...

I'm thinking I have a feed issue (since it's MRSS). I've tried plugging one of my videos in through Roku's JSON template. The feed validates on jsonschemavalidator.net and Roku reported back that the feed validates. HOWEVER, redirecting the DP2SceneGraphWizard's manifest to the validated feed still gives me the splash screen followed by "Please Wait. Loading..." and going through Roku's own conversion with this feed results in the splash screen, then Channel background with no content.

Can someone please give me some suggestions here? I'm just trying to see where the issue is and get a working feed at this point.

[rrirower]

Please provide a URL for your feed and I'll take a look. My guess is that there's a problem with the feed.

[adamesq]

Very odd...it's the main feed for all of the Roku sample work. Thanx for looking...and have a good night!

[rrirower]

@adamesq The feed file you posted does not contain Category objects. However, the feed may be appropriate for the channel code that loads it. Keep in mind, that the wizard code was written to make the transition from DP to SceneGraph easy for those without technical backgrounds. It leverages the DP JSON and MRSS Schema Specs so that the user does not have to change his feed file. That means that the feed file MUST contain Category objects since they are used to define the rows in the Grid Screen UI.

[adamesq]

GOT IT! Thank you! That's helpful. At about 1:30am, I got into Feed Manager. THAT gave me a working feed! 👏🏻🙏🏻🎉 LOTS to fill in from my old MRSS...I think I had 99+ items in there. Since I'm on a Mac, I went on a diversion and figured out how to create an Amazon EC2 Windows instance to be able to use your tools! THANK YOU for being such a big help to the community! (Just updated to the new alpha 7 release. Advertising is absolutely something I'd like to explore. I'll try that after adding more to my feed.)

Off-hand, would you be able to point me in a direction to figure out how modify the channel to have a hero row? I'm a little hesitant to poke around the very old hero sample code in Roku's GitHub since their current course sample feed is doing something odd with categories that makes it not work with DP2SGW whereas Feed Manager finally got me to a working one. (Their feed didn't have Category objects, but it the course they use is pulling it from the feed without the category tag:

	"providerName": "Roku Developers",
	"language": "en-US",
	"lastUpdated": "2020-03-15T02:01:00+02:00",
	"shortFormVideos": [
. . . .then further down. . . 
	"series": [{
	

"shortformvideos" and "series" can be called whatever and show up as rows without the category tag...don't know if this is legit even though it seems to work when side loading the samples.)

[rrirower]

I've been asked for several other UI enhancements. I don't have a Hero layout figured out yet since it's low on the priority list.

[adamesq]

Again...REALLY appreciate you sharing your work and insights!