https://github.com/gabek/SegmentIO-Brightscript

A BrightScript interface to SegmentIO event tracking
https://github.com/gabek/SegmentIO-Brightscript

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A BrightScript interface to SegmentIO event tracking

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gabek/SegmentIO-Brightscript
• Owner: gabek
• Created: 2014-08-13T00:41:17.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-09-09T02:04:08.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-21T06:33:19.193Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Brightscript
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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UNSUPPORTED: I no longer use Segment with Roku, so I can't say if this still works or not.

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SegmentIO-Brightscript

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A [BrightScript](http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/BrightScript+Language+Reference) interface to [Segment.IO](https://segment.io/) event tracking

If you're in the market to add analytics to your Roku application this might be the solution for you.

**Setup**

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1. Copy **Analytics.brs** to your source folder.

2. Decide how you're going to reference the "user".  If they have an actual user ID, or email address, or username and are logged in to a session, then use those.  Otherwise

`User = createObject("roDeviceInfo").GetDeviceUniqueId()` is a great way to uniquely identify.

3. Get access to the [message port](http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roMessagePort) that's being used in your global event loop.

4. And in your Session, or somewhere else that's persistant, create an instance of the Analytics object via the following:

`Analytics = Analytics("UserIdentifier", "SegmentIOAPIKey", YourEventLoopPort)`

The above will set up an initial "Identify" call to Segment.IO in order to start tracking this user.

###**Example**

    MessagePort = GetGlobal().MessagePort

    User = createObject("roDeviceInfo").GetDeviceUniqueId()

    ApiKey = "ABCD1234"

    

    Analytics = Analytics(User, ApiKey, MessagePort)

    

    'My event loop

    while true

        msg = wait(0,MessagePort)

        'You do stuff with events in your app here

        Analytics = GetSession().Analytics

        Analytics.HandleAnalyticsEvents(msg)

    end while

**Tracking**

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Utilizing your reference to the **Analytics** object you initialized above you can make tracking calls using **ViewScreen**, and **AddEvent**.

###**Screen Views**

**ViewScreen** takes a simple string parameter like so: `Analytics.ViewScreen("VideoContentGridScreen")`

###**Events**

**LogEvent** takes in a string with the event that took place and an optional [roAssociativeArray](http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roAssociativeArray) of details for your event.

	details = CreateObject("roAssociativeArray")

	details.buttonName = "Back"

	

	Analytics = GetSession().Analytics

	Analytics.AddEvent("Button Pressed", details)

	

**Details**

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All events (Including the initial **Identify** at initialization time are queued up and sent as batches to SegmentIO.  This is why the timer needs to be ping'ed during the event loop.  The events are sent to Segment.IO every 60 seconds as long as your event loop is still active.