---
title: "Learn how users can stream your content on their smart TV."
slug: "activate-on-tv-apps"
description: "Make sure the Activate device and the Link Your Account pages are set up. Learn more how."
updated: 2023-10-04T01:48:12Z
published: 2023-10-04T01:48:12Z
canonical: "docs.viewlift.com/activate-on-tv-apps"
---

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# Enable device activation code for TV

*Learn how users can activate subscription on their Smart TV.*

**Prerequisites**

The **Activate device** and the **Link Your Account Screen** pages are set up in the Template Builder. These pages/modules are preconfigured during your onboarding, so you can edit placeholder messages, and URLs directly from these modules, whenever necessary.

## **How to create an Activate device page**

1. On the **Template Builder** page, click the **Add New button** under Pages.
2. In the **Create New Page**, provide the **Page Name** as **Activate Device**, and set the **Page Type** as **Modular Page**.
3. After creating the page, click the **Settings** menu on the **Template Builder** banner on top.
4. In the Path field, type **/activate** as the page path.
5. **From the Activate Device** modular page, add the **Activate Device** module. The module settings have the required placeholder text. For example, review the messaging in the **Page Description** field, Enter the code on the TV screen and click "Activate", make the changes if necessary, and **Publish** the module.![](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image-1650997905050.png)Add your custom message in the Activate Device module

**How to create "Link Your Account" page**

1. Follow steps 1-4 above to create the **Link Your Account Screen** page. Set the **Page Type** as **System Screen** and provide the page path: /linkAccount.
2. Add the **Link Your Account** module to the page. In the module settings, add/edit the **Activate Device URL**. Example: www.exampletv/activate.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/activate.png)

After creating the two pages above, in the **Authentication Screen** page, enable the **Show Activate Device** toggle in the **Login (With Activate Device Option)** and the **Generic Login/Signup** modules, and publish the page.

Users will now get the **Activate** **device** option on their TV apps.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/enable-activate-device.png)

## **Activate a device (customer action)**

1. To activate a device, the user must download and launch the app on a smart TV.
2. Once launched, the TV app menu should open a screen prompting to **LOGIN** or to press the **A****CTIVATE DEVICE** button.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image-1687677439749.png)
3. User can **either** log in with their email and password or generate an activation code by pressing the ACTIVATE DEVICE button. Input the code on the Activate page on the site/apps. TV activation URL example: "https://www.example.tv/activate". After successfully entering the code, the app will activate in under 10 seconds.  
**Note**: The activation code is case-sensitive, so make sure you type the code exactly as it appears on the screen, including upper and lowercase letters or in cases where there might be ambiguity between 0 and O.  
  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image-1687678760664.png)

Alternatively, users can enter the code displayed on their TV on the website/apps via **Account settings** page > **Activate** field.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image-1687677896397.png)

Note

- To log in to the TV app using the login flow, simply enter your email address and password. There is no need to enter an activation code.
- Users do not need an activation code to activate devices other than TVs. The number of devices they can log in to and the number of concurrent streams allowed are defined in the subscription plan. A user's view/resume activity is synced across all devices.