Install IPTV UK on every screen in the house

Televisions and boxes that run Google's TV software are the easiest fit for a football household, and TiviMate gives them a proper channel-and-guide screen. Start here if your set qualifies.

1. From the TV's home screen, go into the Play Store and look up TiviMate.
2. Press Install, then launch TiviMate once it has finished.
3. TiviMate will offer ways to bring in your channels. Take the one that asks for a login rather than a file or a link.
4. Key in the three login lines from the welcome email just as they appear, watching for stray spaces at either end.
5. Give the list a minute to build, then open the football group. The guide shows the channel on now and the one coming next.

A stick behind the lounge telly carries plenty of match days, and this version runs on the Smarters Pro app. The stick's own store does not list it, so a small helper called Downloader fetches it instead.

1. Use the search on the Fire TV home screen to find Downloader, the helper app, and install it.
2. In the stick's Settings, find My Fire TV, go into Developer options and permit Downloader to install apps from unknown sources. Menu names drift a little between Fire OS versions.
3. Launch Downloader and key in the download address that the makers of IPTV Smarters Pro publish for Fire TV.
4. Once the download finishes, tap Install, then Open.
5. Choose the login-style sign-in in IPTV Smarters Pro and key in the three login lines from the welcome email.
6. Head for live TV and find the football group. The lounge screen now has a match-day channel.

TiviMate lays channels out like a programme guide, which suits a crowded weekend of fixtures. It reaches the stick through Downloader as well.

1. Find Downloader through the Fire TV home screen search and install it, then switch on its permission to install unknown apps under Developer options in My Fire TV.
2. Start Downloader and type the download address that the makers of TiviMate publish for Fire TV.
3. When the file has arrived, install TiviMate and launch TiviMate.
4. Inside TiviMate pick the option that asks for a login, and enter the three lines from the welcome email.
5. Wait while the list loads, then settle on a football channel.

On these televisions IBO Player does the work, and it identifies your set by two codes it generates, so the remote is not where your login gets typed.

1. Go into your set's app store and look up IBO Player. LG calls its store the Content Store.
2. Install it, start it, and let it show you the television's MAC address and its device key. Snap a photo of that screen so nothing is misread.
3. With a phone or laptop to hand, go to the IBO Player activation page. Enter the two codes first, then the three login lines from the welcome email beneath them.
4. Shut IBO Player on the TV and relaunch it. The channel list should now fill in.

IBO Player on Apple TV is a tvOS download, and it is brought to life in the same two-code way as on the Samsung and LG televisions.

1. From the Apple TV home screen go into the App Store, find IBO Player and press Get.
2. Start the app and read off the MAC address and device key it shows.
3. On a phone or computer, use the IBO Player activation page to submit those two codes together with the login lines from the welcome email.
4. Relaunch IBO Player on the box, and your channels load.

A phone or tablet is the second screen of match day: the kitchen, the garden, the journey home.

1. Find IPTV Smarters Pro in the App Store and tap Get.
2. Open it and accept whatever permissions it requests.
3. Sign in with the login option and fill in the three lines from the welcome email.
4. Tap into the live section and choose the football group.

On Android the app arrives like any other, straight from the store.

1. Find IPTV Smarters Pro in Google Play and install it.
2. Start the app and allow the permissions it asks for.
3. Choose the login-style sign-in, then type the three lines from the welcome email.
4. Head for the live section and pick from the football group.

A computer becomes a spare screen for fixtures that clash, and with an HDMI lead it can feed the lounge telly too.

1. From the official page of the app's maker, download the desktop edition of IPTV Smarters Pro that matches your Windows PC or Mac.
2. Run the installer, then start the app.
3. Choose the login-style sign-in and type the three lines from the welcome email.
4. Find the live section, choose a channel and go full screen.

There is nothing to install on a MAG box. It opens a portal, and the portal recognises the box from the MAC address on its label.

1. Locate the label on the box and note the MAC address printed there. That number is the box's name at the portal.
2. With the remote, enter the system settings and head for the server (portal) options.
3. Put the portal URL from the welcome email into the portal field.
4. Save, then power-cycle the box. When it comes back the portal opens by itself and the channels follow.