How to connect IPTV to TV without a set-top box?

IPTV is a modern digital television technology in the IP data network. This is an opportunity to enjoy your favorite channels and movies without buying set-top boxes and providers. The main advantages of the technology are cost savings and viewing content without ads.

What is required to connect without a set-top box?

All that is needed to connect IPTV on any TV without a set-top box is to connect the device to the Internet (via wire or wirelessly) and have the Smart TV function (or its analogues). If it is not possible to fulfill these conditions, you will need a prefix.
It is also a prerequisite that the TV supports one of the following standards:

• DVB-T2 is the European standard for terrestrial TV broadcasting of the 2nd generation; all Russian repeaters operate in it;
• DVB-C and DVB-C2 – cable broadcasting;
• DVB-S and DVB-S2 – satellite TV.

This parameter is available in the characteristics of the product in any online store of household appliances. It is enough to correctly enter the name of the TB-receiver in the search box on the service. The exact model name is in the device passport.

Free View

IPTV television is available in free and paid format. In the first case, a playlist that is freely available is downloaded from the Internet. Paid option – buying a licensed playlist from an official provider with a monthly fee for viewing. Below are the rules for downloading and installing applications for free use. However, it is worth remembering that unlicensed software often leads to playback of content in poor quality.

Rules for installing and configuring the player

Access to IPTV without connecting a set-top box is not possible without a special player (computer program). This is done as follows:

1. The app store on any Smart TV has a large selection of media players.
2. The example uses the “Peers.TV” media player. Find it in the list, click to select it, download it.
3. Channels become available immediately after installation, but in very small quantities. To expand the list, go to settings, click on “Add playlist”.
4. Paste in a special line a link to a playlist found on the Internet. Also, the addresses of sites with free content are below in the article in the “List of free playlists” section.

Pros and cons

The downside of free IPTV viewing is that providers periodically block channels in open access playlists (they temporarily disappear). Free playlist developers fix the problem, but not always promptly. Sometimes several days pass. Pros:

• savings – no fees to operators;
• rich choice – a huge amount of content is available, selected to your own taste;
• installation of additional equipment is not required;
• finding an age or thematic free playlist is not difficult – there are children’s, adults, including 18+, with films, cartoons, educational, educational, musical, etc.

List of free playlists:

1. 4K HDR movies. More than 50 films from different years of release in excellent quality: “Aladdin”, “Grinch”, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”, “Venom”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Spider-Man: Far From Home”, etc. Link address – https ://smarttvnews.ru/apps/4k-film-hdr.m3u.
2. 3D movies. More than 60 films and cartoons: “Angry Birds Movie”, “Men in Black 3”, “Teleport”, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, and others. The download link address is https://smarttvnews.ru/apps/3d-film.m3u.
3. Movie playlist. Over 70 movies at 60 fps: The Great Game, Alien 3, Wonder Woman, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, King Arthur and more. The link address is https://smarttvnews.ru/apps/Filmy_60_FPS.m3u.
4. Children’s playlist. More than 30 TV channels: “Disney”, “KARUSEL”, “Kids Co”, “Oh!”, “Lolo”, “Nickelodeon”, etc., and more than 200 cartoons: “Baba Yaga vs!”, ” Cars 3″, “Cipollino”, “Winnie the Pooh”, “Despicable Me”, “Moana”, “The Secret of the Third Planet”. The site address for downloading is https://iptvmaster.ru/kids-all.m3u.
5. 500 free channels. Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, international TV channels. Mir, Channel One, Discovery, Hunting and Fishing, ONT, First USSR, Boomerang, Belarus 1, Ren TV and others. The playlist is located at – https://smarttvnews.ru/apps/iptvchannels.m3u.

Before installing the playlist in the player, you should familiarize yourself with the contents. The installation file contains the names of all channels / videos.

Connection options through the provider

For connoisseurs of quality content, IP television services are provided by large providers of Internet resources. They are paid. Each company has its own principle of connecting IPTV without a set-top box.

Rostelecom

Since 2021, the clients of the Rostelecom provider have the opportunity to watch interactive TV without a set-top box. This service is called Wink. Using the program, you can subscribe to a package of 5,000 films, series and cartoons, as well as the top 200 TV channels. Payment is once a month.

The peculiarity of the application is the ability to independently collect a subscription from extremely necessary and interesting channels. Such a tariff is called “Transformer”.

The Wink app is available on the following TVs (no prefix):

• Apple TV version 10.0 or higher;
• LG Smart TV with webOS OS 3.0 or higher;
• Samsung Smart TVs released after 2013.

On Android TV, the application is currently only available using the set-top box.

Connecting Wink on the example of TB Samsung:

1. Go to the official Samsung App store.
2. Enter the name of the Wink application into the search or find it by brute force in the “Popular” section.
3. Click on the application card, then the “Install” button that appears. Wait for the download to complete.

After these steps, they begin to subscribe. Standard channels (“First”, “Russia 1”, “NTV”, etc.) are available immediately – they are free.

Convex

To watch IPTV from Convex on a TV with SMART-TV, you will need to install a special IPTVPORTAL application. Instructions for connecting IPTV from Convex:

1. Go to your TV receiver’s app store (LG Content Store, Apps Market, etc.).
2. Enter in the search “IPTVPORTAL”. Click on the application card that appears.
3. Click the “Install” button to complete the process.
4. Sign in to the app. Pass authorization by entering the login and password specified in the agreement with the provider in the special columns.

The channels provided by the tariff plan become available.

Connection and setup for common TV models

The TV receiver model plays an important role when connecting IPTV without a set-top box. The options for installing and configuring IPTV digital television for TVs from different manufacturers are described below: LG, Philips, Samsung, Sony, Xiaomi, as well as TVs based on Android.

LG

LG Electronics is a South Korean company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of consumer electronics and appliances. How to set up:

1. Go to the LG Content Store.
2. Download the SS IPTV program to the TV receiver.
3. Find on the Internet / take from our article any playlist with channels / movies, download it.
4. Go to settings → “General” → “Get Code”. Fix it on paper.
5. Go to the official service of the SS IPTV application – https: //ss-iptv.com/en/users/playlist. Enter the code received earlier in a special window, click “Add device”.
6. Open the downloaded playlist on the main page of the application → “Save”.

Philips

Koninklijke Philips NV is a Dutch multinational company. Setting up IPTV for a Philips TV receiver is based on the ForkSmart widget. IPTV connection is as follows:

1. Open the TV settings section.
2. Go to “Others”, then click “Configuration”.
3. Follow the steps in sequence: “Network settings” → “Network operation mode” → “Static IP address”.
4. Select “IP Configuration” from the left menu. Click “DNS 1”. Enter the IP address shown in the picture.
5. Return to the main menu, and go to “Smart TV” or “Net TV” (depending on the TV).
6. Launch the online movie theater installed on the TV. Or download from the app store if it’s not there. It will launch Foorksmart. This application launches Fork Player, a guide to watching IPTV.

Samsung

Samsung Group (Samsung Group) is a South Korean group of companies widely known in the world market as a manufacturer of high-tech electronics. The setup here is slightly different from those described above. Instructions for TV Samsung:

1. Download the archive with the OTT Player application to your computer. Secure download link – https://disk.yandex.ru/d/zQNeq-iAE4d0Og.
2. Take any flash drive → create a folder called “OTT Player” → copy the files from the archive folder → place the flash drive in the corresponding slot of the non-working TB.
3. Turn on TV. The application will automatically appear in the menu.
4. Create your page on the official website of the application by clicking on the link – https://ottplayer.es/. Scroll through the main page to the end, you will see a window for authorization / registration. Use the credentials of the created account to log into the application on TB.
5. Find on the Internet or take from our article any playlist with channels / movies, download it. Go to the specified site in “Manage playlists”. Check the boxes next to the devices for which playlists are allowed.
6. After that, download any playlists from your computer.

OTT Player is also suitable for TB LG. In the case of this model, you do not need to download anything in an additional order. You only need to download the application itself from the store (in the same way as SS IPTV). and add a TB device via “Manage…”.

Android

Android TV is a version of the Android OS designed specifically for TVs and multimedia set-top boxes. It allows you to watch movies from Google Play, online broadcasts, videos from YouTube, etc. There is nothing complicated in setting up IPTV on Android TVs:

1. Go to TV in the official Google Play store, download the appropriate application (IPTV, LAZY IPTV, etc.).
2. Set up the downloaded program like an app on LG TV.

Sony

Sony Corporation (“Sony”) is a Japanese multinational company headquartered in Tokyo. Applications ViNTERA.TV or SS IPTV will open the way to use IPTV on TB Sony Smart TV. Instruction:

1. Go to: TV settings → OperaTV Store app store.
2. Through the internal settings of the store, open the ID generator, located in the “Developer Settings”. By clicking “OK” you will receive a code valid for 15 minutes.
3. Create an account on the Vewd website by clicking on the link – https://accounts.cloud.vewd.com/auth/login/?flow=e1b6714f3d28490680eb6f6c0cbfd6a9. Confirm it through the letter that came to the post office.
4. Enter the name of your TV and the ID you received earlier in the special fields by clicking on this link – https://publish.cloud.vewd.com/paired_devices/.
5. Return to TV. A notification will appear on the screen: “User such and such wants to establish a connection …”. Click OK.
6. Now the OperaTV Store has a “Developer” section. Go into it and click on the only tab in it. In the line that appears, enter the link – http://app.ss-iptv.com/. Click “Go” and accept the agreement.
7. Choose a country, city and provider, start using IPTV.

Video instruction:
IPTV stands for Internet Protocol Television. This is watching TV channels, movies and any other content through the network. To watch all this on your TV, it is not necessary to buy additional equipment. If the TV is connected to the Internet and has a digital interactive service, you only need a player and a playlist to watch.