Before you start: grab these
- A Samsung Tizen 6.5+ or LG webOS 3.0+ TV with the Smart IPTV app
- The MAC address shown inside the Smart IPTV app
- Your IPTVUSA4K M3U link from WhatsApp
Not signed up yet? Take a free 24-hour test drive first, or pick a plan and we send your login over WhatsApp.
Walk through it one step at a time
Check your TV can run it
Decide this before anything else, because it governs whether Smart IPTV is even an option. The app needs Samsung Tizen 6.5 or newer, or LG webOS 3.0 or newer. If your set is older than that, Smart IPTV will either be missing from the store or will misbehave, and the better path is a cheap Firestick or Android box on that television running IPTV Smarters or TiviMate. If the set is new enough, carry on with the MAC upload below, and if you are unsure of the version, the final question on this page tells you where to look.
Install the app and note the MAC
From the Samsung or LG app store, install the app listed as Smart IPTV. Launch it a single time and copy down, or snap a photo of, the MAC address it puts on screen, because the next step is done on a different device and you will need that code to hand. It is the television's own MAC, a twelve-character code with colons, and it is what ties your playlist to this one exact set rather than any other in the house.
Upload your playlist by MAC
On a phone or laptop open siptv.app/mylist. Enter that MAC address exactly, colons and all, paste your IPTVUSA4K M3U link into the URL field, tick Keep online so it stays saved, and press Send. This is the step the app puts in place of a login: you are telling the developer's site to hand this playlist to that one television whenever it asks for it.
Restart the app on the TV
Close Smart IPTV completely on the television and open it again. It fetches the playlist you just uploaded, and the channels and EPG appear. If you open it too quickly it may still look empty; give the upload a moment to register on the site and reopen the app, and the full list drops in.
Activate after the seven-day trial
Smart IPTV gives you seven days free, after which it asks for a one-off activation of that one television over at siptv.app/activation. That fee is collected by the people who make Smart IPTV and is completely separate from your IPTVUSA4K subscription; we neither take it nor control it, and paying it does not touch what you pay us. It is a few dollars, once, per TV, and it keeps the app itself licensed on that set.
Confirm channels and guide, then you are set
Open several channels across different categories and let one run for a minute to be sure the stream holds on the TV's own decoder, then open the guide to confirm it filled in. If the picture is steady and the guide is populated, the television is finished. Remember it holds only one playlist at a time, so if you ever re-upload, the new list replaces the old rather than adding to it, which matters if you were hoping to keep two.
When something goes wrong (and how we fix it)
The list uploads but the television shows nothing
Wait a minute and restart the app before assuming it failed, as the upload takes a moment to register. If it is still empty, the MAC is the thing to check. One customer uploaded perfectly to a MAC ending 5A:2B, but his television's MAC actually ended 5A:2D, so the playlist was sitting on the site waiting for a set that will never ask for it. Read the MAC straight off the app screen again, compare every character including the colons, and re-upload to the correct one.
The channels play but there is no guide
Smart IPTV reads the guide from data inside your playlist, so give it a few minutes on first load. If it stays blank, message us and we confirm the EPG is attached to your M3U; occasionally a player wants the guide pointed at separately, and we can send that across so you can paste it in.
After a week it is asking for payment
That is the normal end of the seven-day trial, not your subscription expiring. The one-time activation at siptv.app/activation is the app developer's charge for that television and is unrelated to us. Your IPTVUSA4K plan is unaffected and keeps running on every other device; the activation simply keeps the Smart IPTV app itself working on that one set.
More players that take the same login
IPTV Smarters Pro
IPTV Smarters Pro runs on nearly every device: install it, add your IPTVUSA4K username, password and server URL, and your 25,000+ channels load in minutes.
M3U playlist
Every IPTVUSA4K plan comes with a personal M3U playlist URL. Where to paste it in VLC, Kodi, Smart IPTV or a web player, and why scraped free M3U lists.
Browse every guide
All the hardware and players we help you set up, gathered on one page.
Want a hand getting your Smart IPTV (SIPTV) running?
Plans start at $15 a month across 25,000+ channels, and a real person on WhatsApp will have you live under 15 minutes.
Smart IPTV (SIPTV) IPTV FAQ
What is the difference between Smart IPTV and SSIPTV?
These are two different apps, written by two different developers, that go about the same job in almost the same fashion, which is why the barely different names confuse so many people. The one called Smart IPTV is the MAC-upload method covered above, while SSIPTV can take a link directly on the television. Both work with your IPTVUSA4K playlist, so use whichever your particular TV store actually stocks, and we will tell you which suits your set.
Is the siptv.app payment the same as my subscription?
No, and this trips a lot of people up. The small one-time fee at siptv.app/activation is the Smart IPTV developer's own charge for using their app on that television. Your IPTVUSA4K subscription is a separate thing that you pay us for and that runs on all your devices. Paying one has nothing to do with the other, and we never ask you to pay a third party for the service itself.
How do I find out my TV's Tizen or webOS version?
On a Samsung it is under Settings, Support, About This TV; on an LG it is under Settings, General, About This TV. You need Tizen 6.5 or newer, or webOS 3.0 or newer, for Smart IPTV to behave. If yours is older, do not fight it: tell us on WhatsApp and we set you up with a Firestick or Android box on that television instead, which often works better anyway.