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I really want to use Jellyfin. There is one major thing holding me back right now which is no Roku app without hacking an emby app. I'd love to even help develo

I really want to use Jellyfin. There is one major thing holding me back right now which is no Roku app without hacking an emby app. I'd love to even help develop or test a Roku Jellyfin app, but I know nothing of their code base (or .NET)

aleph- 7y ago
Check the jellyfin-roku GitHub repo.
bisby 7y ago
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku Requires setting your Roku to dev mode and side loading. Didn't want to toss some half finished slop onto the app store. It's been in a semi idle state because it covers most of my use cases and I don't really know enough about other people's use cases to know what needs to be fixed or updated before people find it "acceptable". (I'm not a BrightScript dev, which gives a bit of extra imposter syndrome and makes me nervous to consider a thing shippable too). BrightScript is awful, but if you can help develop it would be great (the server is in .NET but the Roku app is in Roku's BrightScript). If not, testing and feedback and prioritization of feature requests also helps a ton.
- mmcclure 7y ago
  We have to write some BrightScript at work in order to maintain an SDK for our QoS data analytics product. It's one of those things where you forget about it until you have to work on it again, then you get to go through all the stages of "why would someone do this" all over. I think Roku is actually one of the better OTT platforms out there, but that's absolutely in spite of BrightScript.
mikepurvis 7y ago
Clients are a gap for sure. I have a PS4 and Wii U already under my TV; I'm in the process of motivating myself to set up a proper media server, and Plex seemed like a safe option given that there are phone and game console apps, and a web client for desktop use. Would love to try Jellyfin, but I'm definitely not setting up another box + remote for it, and it sounds like the web client is a little patchy in the PS4's browser. (looks like the web client does have a bunch of PS4-specific detection in it, so it's getting at least some testing/use— perhaps I'll check it out: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/search?q=PS4&type=Code https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/search?q=PS4&type=C...)
thekyle 7y ago
It's not exactly as nice as a custom built app but I just discovered today that the official Roku Media Player app will automatically discover Jellyfin servers on the local network with zero configuration. I just happened to stumble upon this while browsing around and suddenly a Jellyfin logo popped up and all my movies were there.
m-p-3 7y ago
I'm not familiar with the Roku platform, can it see DLNA servers?

aleph- 7y ago

Check the jellyfin-roku GitHub repo.

bisby 7y ago

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku Requires setting your Roku to dev mode and side loading. Didn't want to toss some half finished slop onto the app store. It's been in a semi idle state because it covers most of my use cases and I don't really know enough about other people's use cases to know what needs to be fixed or updated before people find it "acceptable". (I'm not a BrightScript dev, which gives a bit of extra imposter syndrome and makes me nervous to consider a thing shippable too). BrightScript is awful, but if you can help develop it would be great (the server is in .NET but the Roku app is in Roku's BrightScript). If not, testing and feedback and prioritization of feature requests also helps a ton.

mmcclure 7y ago
We have to write some BrightScript at work in order to maintain an SDK for our QoS data analytics product. It's one of those things where you forget about it until you have to work on it again, then you get to go through all the stages of "why would someone do this" all over. I think Roku is actually one of the better OTT platforms out there, but that's absolutely in spite of BrightScript.

mikepurvis 7y ago

Clients are a gap for sure. I have a PS4 and Wii U already under my TV; I'm in the process of motivating myself to set up a proper media server, and Plex seemed like a safe option given that there are phone and game console apps, and a web client for desktop use. Would love to try Jellyfin, but I'm definitely not setting up another box + remote for it, and it sounds like the web client is a little patchy in the PS4's browser. (looks like the web client does have a bunch of PS4-specific detection in it, so it's getting at least some testing/use— perhaps I'll check it out: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/search?q=PS4&type=Code https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/search?q=PS4&type=C...)

thekyle 7y ago

It's not exactly as nice as a custom built app but I just discovered today that the official Roku Media Player app will automatically discover Jellyfin servers on the local network with zero configuration. I just happened to stumble upon this while browsing around and suddenly a Jellyfin logo popped up and all my movies were there.

m-p-3 7y ago

I'm not familiar with the Roku platform, can it see DLNA servers?