TiviMate Stalker Portal Setup: MAC, URL and Troubleshooting

Stalker Portal is a third login type built for providers that authenticate by portal address and device identity rather than playlist URLs or account passwords.

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A TiviMate Stalker Portal setup connects through a provider portal address plus a registered device identity instead of playlist URLs or passwords. In TiviMate, choose Add playlist, select Stalker Portal, and enter exactly two values: the portal URL precisely as supplied — scheme, casing, and trailing slash included — and the MAC address the provider registered, commonly in the 00:1A:78 range. Use the provider-issued MAC rather than the hardware sticker, since the subscription is bound to the registered identity. When authentication fails, confirm the MAC registration first, re-copy the URL character by character, check the account is active and within its connection limit, and ask about portal-side blocks that stay invisible from inside the app. Patience applies here too: verify registration before assuming the app misbehaves. Some portals also expect a MAG-style user agent; test one value at a time while keeping the original.

Portal vs M3U vs Xtream

Login type	Credential shape	Typical failure
Stalker Portal	Portal URL plus registered MAC	URL typo or unregistered MAC
M3U	One complete URL	Typo, expired link, or dead source
Xtream Codes	Server plus username and password	Wrong field or inactive account

What Stalker Portal is

Stalker Portal comes from the MAG set-top-box world: instead of a playlist file or API credentials, the provider binds the subscription to a portal address plus a device identity. Unlike TiviMate M3U playlists or Xtream Codes logins, a portal connection has no username or password fields — authentication rides on the address plus the registered MAC.

Enter the portal URL

Copy the exact portal URL from the provider.
Do not add a trailing slash unless the provider specifies one.
Keep the http or https scheme exactly as supplied.

Enter the MAC address

Use the MAC the provider gave you, not necessarily the hardware address printed on the device.
The 00:1A:78 prefix is the common Stalker range.
Enter it with colons, exactly as registered.

MAG user-agent note

Some portals gate by client identity and only talk to recognized box profiles. If the portal demands it, test a MAG-style user agent such as MAG250/306 the TiviMate user-agent way: one value, one retry, and a note of the original so you can revert.

Auth-failure fixes

Confirm the MAC is registered with the provider before changing anything else.
Re-copy the portal URL character by character.
Confirm the account is active and within its connection limit.
Ask the provider about portal-side blocks, which are invisible from inside the app.
Once connected, the same TiviMate setup verification applies: play a channel, then check the guide.