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scubajoe

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Has anyone found an idea of how to get pogoplug content on one of the applications already on the Roku. I only hooked up my Pogo yesterday and tried the Facebook share and hoped that maybe the pictures would be accessable from the facebook album viewer already in the roku but of course it was a no. 

I am looking to find a way to keep my parents and friends with a roku up to date with our family pictures.

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June 23, 2010 9:25 AM

I don't think anyone has tried a Roku app yet.

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October 29, 2010 11:57 AM

I've added a RSS feed from my Pogo to my Roku via Sumini (spelling may be wrong) or the FrameChannel app, serving up pix. I just can't remember what I did and my notes are at home.

I'd prefer a Pogo app, rather than feed from my in house drive to say, FeedChannel, back to my home network and then to the Roku. Something more direct would be useful.

I"ll try to see what I did with my setup and post it.

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October 29, 2010 12:53 PM

My3ke,

Dude that would be awesome, It would be almost/just as good to do a work around with an app that already exists. They are currently using the Facebook interface which is great but only from there computer.

Thanks again for looking at what you did for me.

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October 29, 2010 1:14 PM

Glad to help, ScubaJoe

I did some checking from work and found that I did use my Framechannel account to stream photos from my Pogo to my Roku. In fact today, Framechannel has a PogoPlug Channel under the Photosharing heading, so that's new since I did this.

Here's a quick and dirty run down on this, I'll try to do better later as I'm researching during a lunch break.

So you will need a FrameChannel account, which is a freebie (http://www.framechannel.com) and you have to add the FrameChannel app into your Roku if you haven't already.

Next you need to set up a RSS feed in your Pogoplug of the photo folder of your choice, there are instructions here in the forums elsewhere.

Then in your Framechannel account, either use the PogoPlug Channel under the Photosharing section and paste in the previously created RSS Feed url, or use the "Add RSS Channels" section and use the "Custom RSS Image Channel" and put the RSS feed link there.

Fire up Roku, open FrameChannel and the newly created feed should start streaming.

Sharing it with others, I suppose you can let them link to your framechannel account, or set them up with their own FrameChannel account, and share the RSS Link to your pix and let them view the feed that way.

That may get you started till I can explore this further.

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October 29, 2010 1:29 PM

I will try it when I get home

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November 6, 2010 3:09 PM

finally got this working, now I need to find something that will allow the user to go into subfolders, but this will allow us to keep a highlights channel.

Thanks.

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December 30, 2010 2:46 AM

Using Sumini I'm now able to stream movies (in MP4) to my Roku. Just add Sunimi channel on roku, create an account on sunimi.com. Go to my my.pogoplug.com, select the directory you want to share, and create an RSS feed. cut and paste the feed URL into the 'My Channel of Sunimi (at sunimi.com) The new channel will appear on your Roku..Enjoy. I'm now officially in love with Pogo.

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December 30, 2010 10:51 PM

Kiefer,

I have tried this in the past and just never got it to work. What are the parameters you set when creating this channel in sunimi? I was setting mine to a RSS feed and when I plug in the url, Sunimi tells me "Sorry I could not find any legitimate video files to parse. Please check that the feed contains links to valid video files". These are mp4 files, tho I think I have transcoding off.

Anyway, how did you configure Sunimi to feed the videos?
thx,
my3ke

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December 31, 2010 7:22 AM

Mike

I'm ssuming you have linked to your sunimi account on roku. Just go to my.pogo plug.com select the directory containing the media (my directory contains mp.4 files in addition to some PDFs and exe files). Click the green icon for sharing and in the bottoms panel choose 'more sharing options' nd select publish rss feed. Mypogoplug will then display a rss feed URL in a small window. Copy that link into clipboard. Now login to your sunimi account at sunimi.com. Click on my channels link. Click on the icon that says add new channel. Sunimi will ask for what kind of channel this is and what category of files (I selected videos) and then ask for the rss feed URL. Paste the URL u copied earlier and click on ok. That's it. Go to roku and you will see your channel. However, just note that when this works you will see a lot of latency that's bcos ur files are being hauled all the way to sunimi servers and then delivered to your tv!! So I'm not thrilled about other than accomplishing what I set out to. I have now setup an old laptop connected to my media drive running mongoose web server and use roksboks channel on roku to enjoy my media. Pogo plug is really not useful right now for playing your own media on roku.

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January 1, 2011 10:29 AM

I think I have it set up this time, but we had tornadoes in the area which caused electrical surges. I didn't get the Roku unplugged before the device failed from surges. Surge protector failed also!

So I'm off to order a new one. Computing is designed to teach patience.

:mrb

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February 4, 2011 8:23 AM

i would love to see my pogoplug on my roku!

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April 7, 2011 8:50 PM

I too would love to see a Pogoplug app for the Roku!!!

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June 28, 2011 8:28 PM

I know it's getting redundant, but a pogoplug app to show photos and video on the Roku would be assume....guess I need to learn how to write a Roku app.

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January 19, 2012 7:57 PM

I found a link on a Roku forum with an interesting answer to this problem. I dont have a Roku but this might work.

http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?p=232046&sid=2b42142b92e6ae4163a6351638c...

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March 4, 2012 4:47 PM

I have written a roku channel that uses the supplied pogoplug API, to stream data to the roku.

All you have to do is run the channel and put in username/password for pogoplug and you can start streaming videos and music straight from the pogoplug devices.

I would like to post this but am afraid of legal issues, I have been trying to get permission to post it but my requests fall on deaf ears.

See this forum if you have suggestions for the approval process.

http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum/thread/49757/Roku-App/

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March 4, 2012 4:48 PM

Btw, I have no intent to ever charge for, or put ads on the channel. I made this initially for personal use, and would like to share it.

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March 4, 2012 4:59 PM

Count me in

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