Configure Roku Environment Variables

To build a Roku app, your Bash profile (.bashrc for Linux, or .bash_profile or .zshenv for Mac) needs to include the YI_CLOUD_SERVER_PORT environment variable. The YI_CLOUD_SERVER_PORT environment variable contains the port number used for communication between your local app development server and the Roku client.

Use a port greater than 50000 when testing against a local HTTP server. Note that the default port is 54322 and covers this use case.
Use port 50000 or less when testing against an Amazon S3 server.
Use port 80 when deploying the Release version of the app.

Pro tip

If your Mac is running macOS Catalina and you’re using the default shell, you’ll need to set environment variables in ~/.zshenv. If you’re not sure which shell you’re using, you can check with this query from a terminal window.

echo ${SHELL}

Do the following steps:

Open your environment configuration file (for example ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshenv or ~/.bashrc).
Add the following environment variable as needed: export YI_CLOUD_SERVER_PORT=<port>
Save the file.
Open a new terminal window or update your current shell with the changes:

source ~/.bash_profile, source ~/.zshenv, or source ~/.bashrc.