I have my own domain. I created a subdomain and attempted to redirect that to an stb url. I tried the url on both smarter and a mag box and it doesn't work.
The reason I want to do something like this is so I can just give my people my url and if there are ever issues, I simply change my redirect and no issues for end users.
Anyone have any thoughts?
dont use redirect. go to your domain provider, choose your domain name and go to the advanced dns settings. Make a cname record for a sub domain. Give it about 5 minutes then use your url (domain) instead of your provider.
I have done this thousands of times and works flawless
It could be that the STB is being instructed to provide the URL it is trying to reach and the answer does not match what the server is looking for. For example, if http://my.owndomain.tld resolves to http://server.iptvprovider.tld and you you are setting up the URL http://my.owndomain.tld:2095/c/ in the STB, then the server may be querying the client "what URL are you trying to access and receives http://my.owndomain.told:2095/c/ then it would know something is not right.
But I'm not sure if IPTV servers work this way with STBs. It is a guess.
Use a 301 redirect. That at least works for m3u & xmltv links.
Needs be a stalker portal. Search how to make m3u to stalker, not sure if even possible