Everything it does, said plainly.

Every row here is checked against the document the app is built from, and the end of the page says what a licence does not cover — so you can decide before you pay rather than find out afterwards.

At a glance

In detail.

Playlists

M3U / M3U8
An http:// or https:// address. The parser streams as it downloads, so a 30 MB playlist starts filling the screen instead of freezing it.
Xtream Codes
Host, username, password. Live, films and series, and the guide address derived from the same credentials.
Several playlists
Up to eight, one loaded at a time. They are not merged — reconciling the same channel across two providers with different tvg-ids would break favourites, locks and the zapper, all of which are keyed on it.

Guide

XMLTV guide
One source per playlist. An M3U takes the address you give it; an Xtream subscription derives it.
Now and next
Over the picture, with how far into the programme the zap landed. Indexed by channel and binary-searched, so it keeps up with channel keys held down.
Seven-day timeline
Pages across the days a provider publishes, half an hour or a day at a time, and marks what is on now. Programme descriptions are shown over the picture, not inside the grid.

Player

HLS and MPEG-TS
The two ways IPTV providers deliver live television, chosen from the address with a fallback when the first way fails.
Timeshift
Pause, scrub back, return to live, over whatever window the stream publishes. Live HLS usually offers about thirty seconds; a scrubber needs twelve.
Multi-view
Up to four streams on one screen, the sound following the one selected.
Picture-in-picture
On Android phones and tablets: keep a match running in a corner while you look at something else.
Audio and subtitle tracks
One entry per language rather than per bitrate variant. Whatever the stream embeds; there is no styling control over cues.
Aspect ratio
Fit, fill, stretch.

Channels

Favourites
Keyed by tvg-id, so they survive a provider rotating its URLs.
Groups
Built while the playlist loads, so they appear as it arrives.
Hide channels
Hidden from the rails, the list and the channel keys — not merely greyed out.
Reorder
Group order drives the rails and the channel numbers. A group the provider adds later lands after the ordered ones rather than vanishing.
Search
A three-character prefix index. Results arrive while you type, across 100 000 channels.
Channel numbers
Type 1-2-8 and land on 128. The digits buffer and commit once, so you never see channel 1 on the way.
Last channel
One key back to where you were.
Recently watched
On the television, keyed like favourites.

Recording

Recording
Record a programme from the guide on your TV, and watch it when you like.

Household

Profiles
Up to six. A profile owns playlists, favourites, locks and hidden channels; a new one starts with a copy of the television’s playlists. The licence stays with the household, not the profile.
Parental lock
A salted PIN, per channel or per group, asked before the stream starts.
Watch history
On the television, and not reported to us. It leaves the set only inside a backup you take, and stays on our server only if you keep that backup in your account.
Backup and restore
Playlists with their addresses and credentials, favourites, hidden and reordered channels, locks with the PIN’s salted hash, resume points and watch history. The set shows a code your phone opens; the copy waits on our server for ten minutes, to be downloaded as a file or kept in your account — one television per licence seat, three versions each, deleted with the account — and comes back the same way. Plain text rather than encrypted, and it never carries the licence.
Add a playlist from a phone
The set shows a code, you paste the address on your phone, the set collects it. The address is erased from our side the moment it has.

Licence

A licence belongs to a person
Devices take seats on it. Move a seat from one device to another from your account, as often as you like.
Blocking a television
Frees the seat and refuses to let that set rejoin. It stops at that television’s next start, and within 48 hours if it is kept off the internet — a licence is checked offline so a broken connection does not stop you watching.
Paying
On this website, from the phone that scanned the code. No card number is ever typed on a television.
Working offline
The licence is a signed token the app checks itself. Your connection can drop for two days without the television locking.
No ads
No sponsored channels, no referral links, nothing inserted into your rails.

The playlists it reads.

You bring the subscription; this is only the shape of the thing you paste, so you can tell which one you have before you start. We do not recommend, rank, resell or partner with any IPTV provider.

M3U / M3U8

http://example.com/get.php?username=…&type=m3u_plus

A plain list of channels and their stream addresses — the most common thing a provider hands you. A link only: a playlist you were given as a file has to be put somewhere reachable by a link first.

Guide Give the XMLTV address separately if your provider publishes one — it is usually a second link beside the first.

Xtream Codes

Server address, username, password

A login rather than a link. The app asks the server for live channels, films and series. The one to prefer if your provider offers both this and an M3U link.

Guide Nothing further to enter: the guide comes from the same three fields.

Stalker Portal

A portal address and a MAC address

Typed on the television: beside the code, the set offers “Xtream or Stalker login”, because a portal is two things and the phone page takes one.

Guide None. A portal’s guide comes through its own API, which the app does not read.

An M3U link or an Xtream login goes on from your phone: the television shows a code, you paste the address, the set collects it — and the address is erased from our side the moment it has. The privacy notice says exactly what that means. Something that is none of these three? Send it to support@lumentv.app and we tell you honestly whether it can be read.

Getting it on your TV.

On a Fire TV, Google TV or Android TV, the Downloader app installs Lumen·TV from this site with a short code.

In Downloader, enter

8581959

or lumentv.app/apk

On a Fire TV, Google TV or Android TV

  1. Install Downloader by AFTVnews from the TV’s own app store.
  2. Allow Downloader to install unknown apps, in the TV’s settings.
  3. Open Downloader, enter 8581959 and select Go.
  4. Select Install, then open Lumen·TV. The free trial starts there.

Android TV and Google TV with Android 8.0 or later · Fire TV with Fire OS 7 or later

Every download, and what each one needs

What a licence does not cover.

In the same size type as the rest, because you should have it before you decide.

  • No catch-up or replay

    A deliberate exclusion, not an oversight. It depends entirely on archive endpoints many providers do not expose, and selling something your provider may not support is worse than not having it.

  • No recording on phones and tablets

    Recording is a television feature. The phone and tablet app plays, but does not record.

  • One guide source per playlist

    Enough for most households. Several sources merged into one guide, guide reminders, descriptions inside the timeline and a guide time offset are not part of the app.

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