Enabling guest entitlements
Overview
OpenTV Video Platform supports guest entitlements. Guest entitlements allow a user who has entitlements for a channel and entitlements for the guest entitlements capability feature to invite a limited number of guests who do not have entitlements for the channel to watch it for a limited time.
This allows the user to create a guest entitlements room for a channel showing (for example) a football match and invite friends or family to watch it with them. The room has a predefined duration – playout will stop automatically when this time ends and the entitlement expires.
The guest entitlements feature only applies to live TV.
Prerequisites
For guest entitlements to work in a client application, the following must already be in place:
The Guest Entitlement Service (GES) must be deployed and the necessary supporting configuration added to BCM. Please contact your NAGRAVISION representative to request this.
A capability product for guest entitlements must have been created.
Guest entitlements must be enabled for the relevant editorial channels.
Guest entitlements must be enabled on the relevant product(s) that include the channels.
The product can be a single channel product or one that includes multiple channels.
See Managing guest entitlements.
Use cases
There are four client-side use cases, which are explained in the following pages:
See also
Managing guest entitlements in the Subscriber management integration guide