Have these to hand before you start
- A Samsung smart TV from the 2016 model year or later, connected to the internet
- The Samsung account the television is signed in to
- Your VOCOIPTV login, and the M3U link, both sent in the same WhatsApp message
- A phone or laptop in the room if you take the Smart IPTV route
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Do these in order
Decide whether this television is doing the work alone
There are two honest answers on a Samsung and it is better to reach yours now than after an hour of searching. If the set is 2016 or newer and its store carries a player, the television does everything and there is nothing else to buy. If the set is older than that, or its store turns up nothing, no amount of persistence changes it, and a small box on a spare HDMI socket is the route. That box costs around $30 to $50 and takes the same three values. The next step tells you which of the two you are in, and the rest of this page assumes the television is doing it alone.
Find the year letter in the model code
Press Home, open Settings, then Support, then About This TV. The model code is the long line of letters and numbers, and one letter in it is the model year. Reading them in order: K is 2016, M is 2017, N is 2018, R is 2019, T is 2020, A is 2021, B is 2022, C is 2023 and D is 2024. On a code such as UE55RU7400, the R places it in 2019. A set with none of those letters, or a code beginning with an older series name, is from 2015 or earlier and runs an operating system Samsung has long since stopped updating, which is the case where a box is the answer. Write the code down before you leave that screen, because support can tell you from it what your set will and will not decode.
Open the store on the television and search
Press Home. Along the bottom row, move to Apps, which has a grid icon. The store opens on a page of recommendations, and the magnifying glass sits in the top right corner. Search for IPTV Smarters. Search again for Smart IPTV, as two words. Note what appears. Both are small and free to install, whatever they may ask for later. If the store returns nothing at all for either, stop here and read the first entry under the problems below, because the answer is not to keep searching.
Install a player and give it your login
IPTV Smarters is the one to start with, because it takes your account directly and needs no second device. Install it, open it, and accept the terms. On the first screen choose Login with Xtream Codes API. Enter any name you like in the first box, then the server address exactly as sent, beginning http:// and ending with a colon and the port number, then the username and the password. Capital letters matter in both. Press Add User. The television then downloads the channel list and the program guide, which takes longer on an older set than it does on a phone, so leave it for two or three minutes before deciding it has failed.
Or send the list from your phone with Smart IPTV
Smart IPTV works the other way round and has no login screen at all, which looks broken until you know. Install it, open it, and it shows a MAC address, which is the permanent hardware number of that television. Write it down exactly, colons included. Then on a phone or laptop go to siptv.app/mylist, put that MAC in the first box, paste your M3U link into the URL box, tick Keep online, and press Send. Go back to the television, close the app properly and open it again. The channels arrive. This route suits older sets because the app is lighter than Smarters, and it costs a small one-time fee to the app developer after seven days.
Confirm it survives being switched off
Play a news channel for a minute, then a sports channel, which asks far more of the set. Bring up the channel information and check the resolution the stream is running at, because this is the point where you find out whether the set is receiving the 4K copy. Look at the guide and confirm it carries program names rather than empty rows. Then switch the television off at the wall socket, wait ten seconds, switch it back on and open the player again. It should return with your channels in place and no login screen. That last test matters more than it sounds: a Samsung that loses its player settings on a cold start will do it every time, and finding out now is better than finding out on a Saturday evening.
If the screen does not look right
The store finds nothing, whichever name I search
Samsung stocks its store differently in each market and drops apps from older model years, so an empty search is a real answer rather than a mistake you made. We will not tell you to change the store region on the set, because it breaks the other apps signed in to that television and it goes against the terms you accepted with the Samsung account. Two things are worth doing instead. Open Settings, Support, Software Update, Update Now, let the set update itself, and search once more afterwards. Then search for IPTV Smarters written as two words and as one. If both come back empty, the set is not going to run a player, and a small box on a spare HDMI socket is what we would put there.
The app vanished after the television updated overnight
Samsung firmware updates rebuild the app list, and a player that has been withdrawn from the store in the meantime does not come back. Open Apps and look for it. If it is listed, install it again and your login goes back in as before, which takes two minutes. If it is no longer listed anywhere, that is Samsung removing it rather than anything to do with your subscription, and the other player on this page, or a box, carries on unaffected.
The picture is right but the sound lags behind it
This shows up when the set is feeding a soundbar or Bluetooth speakers rather than its own speakers, and it affects every app on the television rather than this one. Open Settings, Sound, Expert Settings, and use Audio Delay to nudge the sound until lips and words meet, which is usually somewhere under 100 milliseconds. If the delay only happens on this player, change the audio decoder inside the player settings instead and leave the television alone.
Smart IPTV says the playlist has expired
That message is about the app and not about your account, which is why it can appear on a plan with months left to run. Smart IPTV holds one list per television and loses it after a factory reset or certain firmware updates. Go back to siptv.app/mylist on your phone, enter the same MAC address, paste the same M3U link, tick Keep online and send it again. The channels return within a minute of reopening the app.
The app we would put on this one
SIPTV app
Smart IPTV has no login screen at all. You send a playlist to the MAC address of one television, which looks broken until you know how it works.
Smarters Pro
IPTV Smarters Pro runs on nearly every screen and carries no channels of its own. Which install route your device needs, and the settings that matter.
Every guide in one list
One page for each television, box and app we cover.
Working through this with no login yet?
The steps above are the same whether you are on the free day or a paid term, so there is nothing to undo later. Tell us it is a Samsung Smart TV and we will send the three lines that make it work.
Samsung Smart TV IPTV FAQ
Does a Samsung set need a box at all?
On any set from 2016 onward, yes, and most people never add anything. The television carries the player, the login goes in once, and the remote you already hold controls it. A box becomes worth buying for three reasons: the set is older than 2016, the store in your market carries no player, or you want the grid guide that TiViMate gives and Samsung does not stock. None of those is about the subscription, which behaves identically either way.
Is Smart IPTV free on a Samsung?
Seven days are free, after which it wants a one-off payment, charged per television, made at siptv.app. That payment goes to the developer of the app and has nothing to do with us, and we take no part in it. IPTV Smarters asks for nothing at any point. Whichever you choose, the app is an empty shell: it carries no channels of its own and displays nothing until an account is behind it.
Why can I not get TiViMate on a Samsung?
Because TiViMate is an Android application and a Samsung set is not an Android device. It has never had a Tizen version and the developer has not suggested one is coming. Anything in the Samsung store with a name close to TiViMate is a different product by a different author. If the grid guide is what you are after, the cheapest honest route is an Android stick on a spare HDMI socket rather than a paid lookalike.
My set is from 2015. Is there anything at all?
Not through the store, no. Sets before 2016 run either an early Tizen build or the older Orsay system, and no current player is published for them. Screen mirroring from a phone will put a picture on the panel, though it ties up the phone and the quality drops. The realistic answer on a 2015 television is a stick, which costs less than three months of most plans and turns the set into the fastest device in the house.