Activate a channel

This endpoint activates a Cloud Playout channel, so FastPix prepares it and takes it to air at its start time. A channel you have configured stays in draft until you activate it.

How it works

1. Finish configuring the channel first, so it has something to play. A schedule channel needs at least one event inside its start and end times, and a loop channel needs at least one program that holds media.

2. Make a POST request to this endpoint with the channelId. No request body is needed.

3. The channel moves to scheduled, goes to air by itself at its start time, and moves through starting to running.

The channel’s startTime must still be at least 3 minutes ahead when you activate it. A channel that is already scheduled, starting or running cannot be activated again, so deactivate it first if you want to restart it. Activation is all or nothing: if any step of it is refused, whatever was started is stopped and the channel returns to the status it had, so it can be activated again.

Example

A broadcaster finishes building next month’s channel and activates it, leaving FastPix to take it to air on the first of the month.