Install

This guide shows how to add Tealium to your Roku app to track user activity.

Requirements

We recommend that you develop in Visual Studio Code with the Brightscript Plugin.

Sample Apps

To help familiarize yourself with our library, the tracking methods, and best practice implementation, we recommend that you download the Roku sample app.

The code for the sample app is available in the TealiumSample.brs and the TealiumSample.xml files. The app provides examples of adding button tracking via the supplied TealiumTask and TealiumTaskInterface files.

To install the Tealium library for Roku, use one of the two following methods:

ROPM (Community Driven Roku dependency manager)
Download the repo

ROPM

If you use ROPM, we recomend aliasing the Tealium library. In your package.json, add the following dependency:

{
    "dependencies": {
        "tealium": "npm:tealium-roku-plugin@2.0.0"
    }
}

We also recomend that you do not prefix via ROPM by adding the following code to your package.json:

"ropm": {
    "noprefix": [
      "tealium"
    ]
  },

If you prefer to use prefixing and not aliasing, you can add the following line in your package.json:

"tealium-roku-plugin": "2.0.0"

However, this method causes code samples in the documentation for the brs component to not properly match up with their references.

And finally, run the ropm install command.

Troubleshooting ROPM

In some cases, auto path updating fails in ROPM. To resolve this issue, some manual changes need to be made in TealiumTask.xml
Ensure that you modify the TealiumTask.xml file in your project and not the one in the node module’s folder.

The imports may contain an undefined in the path. To fix this, update undefined to your alias. If you followed the installation instructions above, the alias value is tealium:

<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/components/roku_modules/undefined/TealiumTask.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/undefined/createTealium.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/undefined/tealiumBuilder.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/undefined/tealiumCollect.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/undefined/tealiumCore.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/undefined/tealiumLog.brs" />

Change this to:

<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/components/roku_modules/tealium/TealiumTask.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/tealium/createTealium.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/tealium/tealiumBuilder.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/tealium/tealiumCollect.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/tealium/tealiumCore.brs" />
<script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/tealium/tealiumLog.brs" />

Download repo

The second option for installing the Tealium library is to download the repo and copy all of the files in the components and source directories over to your project.

Initialize

There are several options to using the Tealium library, but the simplest method is to initialize a builder object:

builder = TealiumBuilder("ACCOUNT", "PROFILE", LOG_LEVEL)
builder.SetEnvironment("ENVIRONMENT")
builder.SetDatasource("DATASOURCE")
teal = builder.Build()

This generates a teal object that you can run track calls on. For more information about the teal object and the TealiumBuilder class, see API Reference.

If you are not using the supplied TealiumTask and TealiumTaskInterface code, see track call

Advanced control

For more advanced control, we recommend that you create and initialize your own Tealium object to be able to run anything you would like. If you are only interested in firing off tracking events, we recommend that you use the supplied TealiumTask and TealiumTaskInterface.

You can use the supplied TealiumTask code by adding the following line to any component:

  <TealiumTask id="tealiumTask"/>

The brs component

You must also import the brs component for the interface.

  <script type="text/brightscript" uri="pkg:/source/roku_modules/tealium/TealiumTaskInterface.brs"/>

If you prefixed the Tealium library instead of aliasing it, the code samples for the brs component will not properly match up with references in the documentation.

If you install the modules with a method other than ROPM, update the path in the uri parameter to the correct location.

After you import the brs component, initialize your task in the brs code with the following code:

task = m.top.findNode("tealiumTask")
m.tealiumTask = TealiumTask(task)
m.tealiumTask.init("tealiummobile", "demo")