WP Smart TV

Description

The ultimate toolkit for video streaming services using WordPress. Turn your site into an video service similar to YouTube or Vimeo. Provides support for HTML5 video and Roku Direct Publisher plus add-on plugins for Fire TV and Chromecast.

Includes:

• Roku Direct Publisher Feed support (JSON)
• HTML5 video player with HLS & MP4
• Shortcodes to integrate with existing sites

Add-ons:

• Vimeo Pro Extender – Easily import and manage your Vimeo content with WP Smart TV
• Fire TV Creator – Add support for Amazon’s Fire TV Creator
• Playlists – Add playlist support to WP Smart TV
• Secure Feeds – Secures your IPTV data feeds against unauthorized access

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This plugin utilizes custom post types to manage your video content. We include Movie, Shortform Video & Episodic post types to help you easily add new content to your IPTV system.

Each video contains metadata for trick play files and Closed Captions with multiple translations.

Shortcodes are also provided to embed content in regular posts & pages.

Roku Direct Publish Feeds allow you to send data to Roku without the expense of building your own app. For more information please see this article – Roku Direct Publisher Feeds.

Need help? Read the documentation here!

FAQ

Does this work with YouTube?

No! YouTube does not allow you access to the data URLs required (HLS or MP4).

Does this work with Vimeo?

YES! If you have a Vimeo Pro or Business account, you can use your HLS and MP4 links. (Vimeo > Video > Settings > Video File).

Does it support WebVTT & SRT for Closed Caption support?

YES! However SRT support only works on Roku. We suggest using WebVTT as it works on both Roku and HTML5. You can convert SRT to VTT files quite easily online.

Reviews

Works great, but steep-ish learning curve at first

dicalzi July 19, 2023

WP Smart TV is a great plugin for those who have a little bit of time setting up. I needed it to set up a Roku channel, and it worked. However, it took many months to get it actually working. To be clear, this is not the extension’s fault, it’s mine. I was using Roku Direct Publisher which is completely different from Roku SDK channels. As soon as I converted to using SDK channels, it worked fine. All you have to do is add the feed URL provided by WP Smart TV and insert into your manifest. I use this service called ‘Wistia’ which allows 10 free video streams for free accounts, and it works well with this. As soon as I got the MP4 stream from Wistia, I put it into WP Smart TV and it worked great! I had trouble getting the recipes to work, which is what makes the rows in the app work. Though, after a bit of researching and poking around, I’m sure I’ll figure it out at some point or another. I don’t think that it’s this plugin’s fault, but rather something’s wrong with my Roku channel’s code. I would recommend this plugin 100% for people in specific use cases like mine.

feed not working

onetwotenmarketing January 18, 2023 5 replies

The plugin does not work. The JSON feed produced is not compatible with Roku. Also no response from support.

Alternative to Vimeo Pro?

tpd4life December 5, 2022 1 reply

Hi Rob, I appreciate all your support the plugin has been really cool. I am trying to see if there is an alternative to using Vimeo Pro to sync videos from site to Roku Direct Publisher. I am using Dream Host VPS basic. Is it possible to just point Roku to my website instead of Vimeo?

Does not work

spycraft3r April 11, 2022

This plugin does not work with the latest wordpress

EPIC!!!

chale0121 September 12, 2020

Say this worked perfectly the only thing i could not figrue out how to do is how to do an audio station with shoutcast. However I will be purchasing the amazon firestick one soon. This is going to help our small hosting company offer to our client’s channel works perfect with our wowza streaming engine. Keep up the amazing work.

Did not work for us.

edprice May 11, 2020 1 reply

Nice plugin…we followed the video tutorials from developer and it still wouldn’t work.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.1.8

• FIXED: Issue with Live add-on filter not working

2.1.7

• FIXED: Issue with series not processing on Direct Publisher

2.1.6

• FIXED: Issue with the date on Roku Direct Publisher. Now shows in ISO 8601 format.

2.1.5

• FIXED: Menus still showing some submenus

2.1.3

• FIXED: Issue with option pages not working
• FIXED: Issue with some hosts and autoloading

2.1.0

• UPDATE: Base libraries
• UPDATE: Cleaned up menus
• NEW: Started base code changes for a major upgrade (3.0.0)

2.0.15

• FIXED: Issue with internal tools library.

2.0.14

• FIXED = Error with advertising controls not showing metabox

2.0.12

• FIXED: Error with Live Streams add-on not showing validity start and end times

2.0.11

• FIXED: Error on activiting on first install.

2.0.10

• ADDED: Support for upcoming Elementor add-on
• UPDATED: Support for Importing JSON from TV Boss and Vimeo OTT feeds
• FIXED: Issue with truncation issuing double ellipsis

2.0.8

• FIXED: Error with is_plugin_active() not found
• UPDATE: Added more support for OTT Pro plugin (coming soon)

2.0.6

• ADDED: Support for MediaBlaster SVOD for Roku app template

2.0.5

• ADDED: Support for LiveStreams Extender

2.0.4

• FIXED: Seasons not displaying properly on Roku

2.0.2

• UPDATE: Fixed issue with seasons not appearing correctly in Roku

2.0.1

• UPDATE: Fix issue Series thumbnails

2.0.0

• NEW: Import feature for Roku Direct Publisher
• NEW: Updated interface
• NEW: New code base

1.8

• Added support for new Fire TV Creator plugin.
• Removed Fire TV Builder support (coming to a new add-on shortly!)
• Small bug fixes in the UI/UX department

1.7.1

• New add-on licensing and upgrade system

1.7

• New interface
• PHP 7.2 compatibility update

1.6.3

• IMPORTANT: You will need to build new Roku Receipes with this release. Sorry for any confusion!
• Fixed errors with PHP 7.2
• Verified system
• Updated CMB2 libraries
• Setting up backend systems for version 2.0
• Disabled tutorials and extender dashboard pages. Returning in 2.0.

1.6.2

• Fix for BIF & Closed Captions in Series
• Add \”Required\” to series meta panel
• Updates for Authorize extender

1.6.1

• Graphical update
• Misc bug fixes and optimizations

1.6

• Added: Plugin automatic update system for Add-Ons
• Added: Ability to add multiple Closed Caption and Trick Play files to each video
• Fix: BIF files now display properly on Roku
• Updated: Help Document system overhaul

1.5

• Added: Custom Post Type theme templates for Movies, Episodes and Short-Form Videos
• Added: Add the ability to do iFrame embeds on other sites
• Added: Tutorials section to the dashboard
• Updated: New \”Extender\” section for add-ons
• Updated: New styling and small changes to Roku Recipes
• Fixed: Strip HTML and links from Description for JSON outputs

1.4.5

• Fixed: Season tags

1.4.2

• Fix to FireTV Categories

1.4.1

• Removed function that was causing errors on some installations
• Added check for error when no tag was present on content

1.4

• Added: Ability to download JSON file for Roku & FireTV
• Added: Support for SRT subtitles and captions
• Fixed: Support for local BIF/SRT/VTT files
• Fixed: Recipes error on posts with more than 1 tag
• Update: Removed unused functions from library

1.3.5

• Fix for Pre-rolls in Direct Publisher

1.3.3

• Added support for WP Smart TV Playlists
• Rewrite of Roku functions
• Fixed issues with certain configurations and Roku DP

1.3.1

• Fix for BIF URLs
• Fix for Closed Caption (Roku DP)

1.3

• Added support for Amazon Fire Builder (FireTV template)
• Added BIF support for Roku Direct Publisher
• Added WPSTV Advertising System v1.0
• Fixed issue with TV Specials not displaying properly
• Fixed HTML entities showing in feed

1.2.1

• Minor bug fix

1.2.0

• Added TinyMCE button for inserting Video Player shortcodes
• Made changes to series support – Series are now controlled by a custom post type.
• Added Roku Category Builder (Roku Recipes)
• Minor bug fixes

1.1.0

• Added Series Support
• Minor bug fixes

1.0.0

• HTML5 video player – based on VideoJS HLS Player
• Roku Direct Publisher Feeds – JSON
• Metabox editor v1.0.0