What you need
- Android TV, Google TV, a Firestick or an Android box
- Your IPVARIO credentials
- Optionally about $10 a year, bought in a separate app
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Step-by-step setup
Confirm the hardware can run it
Play Store on Android TV and Google TV; Downloader on a Firestick, as the Firestick page describes. On Apple, Samsung or LG there is nothing to install — use Smarters there and treat similarly named listings on those stores as different products hoping you will not look closely.
Add the playlist, which is not a playlist
Add playlist, then Xtream Codes login, then server address, username and password. It will never ask for an M3U file and does not want one. Finding yourself hunting through messages for a playlist link means you took the wrong branch a screen ago.
Answer the category question seriously
It asks which groups to include and the temptation is to take everything. Resist it. Choosing the fifteen or twenty categories this person would genuinely open converts an unusable line-up into something navigable by remote. It is reversible, so decisiveness costs nothing and indecision costs an evening.
Spend ten minutes on the channel groups
TiViMate rewards curation more than any other player here. Hide every category this person will not open, put their regulars in a favourites group, and set that group as the default. A list of thousands becomes a list of forty. It is the step that decides whether the screen is still pleasant in three months and it is always the one people skip.
Set the guide to refresh itself
Settings, TV guide, every twelve hours. The programme source travels with the login here, so there is no separate address to paste anywhere. People who miss this setting conclude the guide is unreliable when it is simply working faithfully from yesterday's copy.
Build the group that makes it worth having
Their regular thirty or forty channels in a favourites group, set as the default view. If this is the sport screen, that group is competitions and nothing else, and it should look nothing like the one on the television downstairs. This is the ten minutes that decides whether the app was worth installing.
Consider Premium, and note what it does to your tier
Roughly $9.99 a year or a lifetime licence in the mid-thirties, with a seven-day trial. It adds recording, multiple playlists and multi-view — and multi-view is the one that matters here, because two matches composited into one window is a single stream against your plan rather than two.
Buy Premium in the right place
Not on the television. Install TiViMate Companion on an Android phone and purchase there; the licence attaches to the same Google account and appears on the television afterwards. This single detail defeats more people than every other question about this app combined.
Leave the other screens alone
There is no reason to standardise a household on one player. TiViMate where the guide earns its money, Smarters everywhere else, identical credentials throughout. The account neither knows nor cares which application is asking.
Common errors and fixes
Playlist could not be loaded
Check the server address still carries its port and that the plan has not lapsed. Then type the password by hand rather than pasting: text taken from a chat window brings invisible characters along far more often than seems credible.
Guide shows no information
Settings, TV guide, Update now, then restart the app. Also give it longer than feels reasonable — several minutes for a first load across a large line-up is ordinary, and impatience explains a good share of these reports.
Premium is not on the television
Because it was bought in the wrong place, or not yet bought at all. It lives in TiViMate Companion on a phone. Once purchased there it appears here automatically against the same Google account.
Multi-view stutters
Decoding two streams at once is more than a Firestick's processor manages comfortably, particularly at 4K. Drop both windows to HD, or accept that multi-view genuinely wants a Shield or a Formuler. This is the clearest example on the site of hardware rather than the service being the limit.
Other apps that work with IPVARIO
IPTV Smarters Pro
Install IPTV Smarters Pro on Firestick, Android, Samsung, LG, Apple TV or PC and sign in with Xtream Codes. Free on every platform. 25,000+ channels.
Smart IPTV (SIPTV)
Set up Smart IPTV on a Samsung or LG television: find the MAC, upload your M3U at siptv.app, activate. Ideal for older second sets. 25,000+ channels.
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TiViMate IPTV FAQ
Is multi-view one screen or two?
One. The player fetches both feeds and composites them locally, so your account sees a single stream. For a household on two screens that is genuinely useful — two matches on this television and somebody else watching something else entirely elsewhere.
What does Premium cost exactly?
About $9.99 a year, or a one-off lifetime licence between roughly $34 and $38 depending on region. Seven-day trial, which is the sensible way to decide whether recording and multi-view matter in your house rather than taking anybody's word for it.
Does it work with our account?
Directly. Lines are issued as standard Xtream Codes logins, which is exactly what TiViMate expects, so guide, catch-up and on-demand all populate with no extra configuration.
Why no Apple or Samsung version?
Because it is an Android application and those are not Android. It is not a licensing dispute and no port is in progress. Anything on those stores wearing a similar name is an unrelated product, and some of them charge for the resemblance.
Does TiViMate work with any provider?
Yes — it is a player and holds no content of its own. Any Xtream login or M3U playlist works in it, which means the app is not tied to us. If you ever change supplier, everything you configured stays exactly as it is.
Is Premium worth it if I only watch on demand?
Probably not. What Premium buys is recording, multi-view and multiple playlists — all of which matter for live sport and none of which matter much for a catalogue. The seven-day trial exists precisely so you can answer this for your own household rather than taking anybody's word for it.
What makes the guide worth switching players for?
It shows what is on now and next across every channel in a grid you can move around while something keeps playing in a corner. A basic player gives you a list of names and nothing else, so finding a fixture means knowing in advance where it is.
Can recordings be watched on another screen?
Not directly — recordings are written to the device that made them, or to storage attached to it, and no other screen in the house sees them. If somebody wants to record a match and watch it elsewhere, network storage the box can write to is the arrangement that works. Plan it before recording rather than after.