OK. I figured it out. You need to do device reset for the corresponding device.
It's strange nobody mentioned this, though now I remember there was a mentioning about resetting in the Get Started guide, but I have to say it is very understated.

I'm having a similar problem - any help would be appreciated. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04. I'm still having trouble getting a basic sample to load from /devwidgets - not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I copied one of the existing samples:

~/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Latest-540/TV/Widgets/com.yahoo.widgets.tv.snippetsample.widget

Renamed the directory in the widget file to:

com.mycompany.widgets.tv.myapp.widget

Modified widget.xml

Name: MyApp Sample
Change identifier to: com.mycompany.widgets.tv.myapp
modified author name

I renamed widget file to be :

com.mycompany.widgets.tv.myapp.widget

Copied file to:

/devwidgets/com.mycompany.widgets.tv.myapp.widget


Restarted Ubuntu
Clicked 540 Latest Production Simulator Reset
Clicked 540 Latest Production

When I do the /widgets command in the console I don't see it:

/widgets
WD 00:00:22:375: [T:3848] Widgets:
WD 00:00:22:375: [T:3848] * [0] Bootstrap (0x945ff68) (com.yahoo.widgets.tv.bootstrap:/home/jtest/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Latest-540/TV/default.widget) 207.010kB
WD 00:00:22:375: [T:3848] [1] Main (0x963c0c0) (com.yahoo.widgets.tv.container:/home/jtest/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Latest-540/data/Widgets/Installed/com.yahoo.widgets.tv.container.widget) 1.100MB
WD 00:00:22:375: [T:3848] [2] Profile Widget (0x9db9480) (com.yahoo.widgets.tv.settings:/home/jtest/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Latest-540/data/Widgets/Installed/com.yahoo.widgets.tv.settings.widget) 1.579MB
WD 00:00:22:375: [T:3848] [3] Template Widget (0xa1c2ac0) (com.yahoo.widgets.tv.template:/home/jtest/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Latest-540/data/Widgets/Installed/com.yahoo.widgets.tv.template.widget) 1.356MB
WD 00:00:22:375: [T:3848] [4] Toolbox Examples (0xa46fea0) (com.yahoo.widgets.tv.toolbox:/home/jtest/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Latest-540/data/Widgets/Installed/com.yahoo.widgets.tv.toolbox.widget) 1.385MB
WD 00:00:22:375: [T:3848] [5] VideoSample (0xa6ec260) (com.yahoo.widgets.tv.videosample:/home/jtest/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Latest-540/data/Widgets/Installed/com.yahoo.widgets.tv.videosample.widget) 1.312MB

When I look at the logs I see this:

EI 00:00:01:523: [T:3848] LOADING ALL WIDGETS FROM /devwidgets
EM 00:00:01:571: [T:3848] 04-12d-2010 12:56:00.347: Start parse
EM 00:00:01:572: [T:3848] 04-12d-2010 12:56:00.348: End parse
WE 00:00:01:574: [T:3848] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE 00:00:01:574: [T:3848] ERROR!ERROR!ERROR!ERROR!ERROR!
WE 00:00:01:574: [T:3848] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE 00:00:01:574: [T:3848] Bootstrap [com.yahoo.widgets.tv.bootstrap]
WE 00:00:01:575: [T:3848] Could not include file 'system://Bootstrap/Migration.js' (: Line 3)
WE 00:00:01:575: [T:3848] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WM 00:00:01:576: [T:3848]
...
EE 00:00:01:614: [T:3848] SKIPPING FILE : /devwidgets/com.mycompany.widgets.tv.myapp.widget
...
WM 00:00:02:182: [T:3848] RESETTING WIDGETS IN CURRENT PROFILE
WM 00:00:02:183: [T:3848] Lazy registering WidgetMetadata class
EI 00:00:02:195: [T:3848] LOADING ALL WIDGETS FROM /devwidgets
WM 00:00:02:206: [T:3848] ALL DONE

Any ideas?

Did you do "reset" after you made all the copying and editing? That's what got me. BR.

Hi Kyle,

Try this:

1. Run the Vizio simulator. This creates ~/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Vizio
2. cd ~/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Vizio/data/Widgets/Installed
3. cp -r com.yahoo.widgets.tv.template.widget/ /devwidgets/myTest.widget
4. cd /devwidgets/myTest.widget/Contents/
5. vi widget.xml
6. change com.yahoo.widgets.tv.template to com.yahoo.widgets.tv.myTest
7. If the Vizio simulator is currently running shut it down by entering /quit in the console.
8. Reset the simulator by selecting it from the Vizio simulator menu (incidentally, this is the same as manually blowing the data directory away by doing:
rm -rf ~/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Vizio/data
9. Restart the Vizio simulator.

You should then see your widget in the dock. Also, you don't need to reboot Ubuntu.

- Ben

Hi,

I've got similar problem.

In my widget.xml I have:
<identifier>com.yahoo.keemor.widget</identifier>

and catalog:
/devwidgets/com.yahoo.keemor.widget

My keemor widget shows in TV Widget Software, but it isn't listed in Widget Gallery and I can't add it to the Dock.

Look here http://keemor.com/konfabulator.png


I use WDK 1.0 (on Ubuntu 9.10) and the situation is the same LG/Samsung/Vizio/Latest Simulators

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Greetz
Romek

Thanks a lot Ben - that walk-through worked for me.

The problem was I was zipping the directory into a single .widget file before dropping it into the /devwidgets directory. Once I unzipped my sample and just left the exploded directory in /devwidgets, it showed up properly in the simulator after I reset.

It's probably better for beginners to copy stuff out of:

~/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Vizio/data/Widgets/Installed/

for testing instead of

~/TVWidgets/Konfabulator-Vizio/TV/Widgets/

Thanks for the help!

I just haven't noticed my widget in the dock, everything is OK.