Airplay / mirroring constantly disconnecting

So I'm hoping someone can provide some pointers. I've posted about this before but my problems were simply brushed off as network issues, and I know that's not the case. I have two third gen Apple TVs running the latest updates: one is directly connected to my router, and the other wirelessly over wireless N. I have two Macbooks (an rMBP and a 2012 Macbook Pro) that I use Airplay through, or mirroring. Both disconnect constantly. I'll be playing a song through iTunes and a minute later, it's only coming through my computer speakers. I'll be mirroring a show and suddenly it disconnects. I'm having this problem when Airplaying through iTunes directly, or when holding down option + volume and choosing Apple TV, or when choosing the Airplay icon from the bar near the clock. It does this on both Apple TVs and on both of my Macbooks. My audio receiver in my living room has Airplay options and I have absolutely no problems when I Airplay directly to it... it'll stream all day long.
It was suggested I use a program to ensure that my wireless network is not on the same channel as other networks nearby. Just to humor the idea, I switched from auto channel to wireless channel 4, which no one else is on. No solution. I've been waiting for over a year now hoping an update to the Apple TV fixes this to no avail. I was hoping that upgrading my Macbook to Mavericks would fix it, but no dice. I'm really not impressed with Apple TV. I feel like I've tried every possible solution on my end and have narrowed it down to the Apple TVs just being crummy. Hopefully someone can make a suggestion outside of giving up.
Thanks

I've posted this response on a number of related posts.
After going through a NUMBER of troubleshooting options, I realized that when I recently moved my TV Setup, I had the ATV directly next to my router. The second I moved the ATV more than 6 inches away from my router, AirPlay worked flawlessly.

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My company has several TVs with AppleTVs (3rd generation units) connected in our conference rooms so we can "Screen Mirror" our Mac laptops via AirPlay during meetings. Many employees have complained that AirPlay Screen Mirroring drops frequently during meetings for no apparent reason.
In attempts to determine the cause of the issue, I removed the AppleTV units from Wi-Fi and hard-wired them all to the LAN (100Mbps/Full duplex, no switchport errors seen on the Cisco switch). I upgraded the AppleTVs to the latest firmware. I had our AppleTV users ensure they were running MacOS Mavericks with the latest software updates installed. I had the Mac laptops hard-wired into the LAN during meetings in the conference rooms. None of these changes resolved the AirPlay issue.
I reviewed the MacOS "/var/log/system.log" file from the laptops of several users that reported issues. I found a pattern that seemed to indicate that the "coreaudiod" process reported "Feedback taking too long to send" several times before the AppleTV connection was terminated. Also, from a network trace (using "tcpdump") taken during an unexpected AirPlay Screen Mirroring disconnection, I could see that the Mac laptop sent a TCP FIN packet to the AppleTV unit (this would indicate that the MacOS laptop initiated the closing of the AirPlay connection).
I have included the relevant log file entries below. Please note that the LAN internal to our company is "solid" and there have been no connectivity issues detected or reported during the times the AirPlay sessions were disconnected.
I believe I have found a workaround to this issue. By going into "System Preferences", "Sound" and then changing the "Output" device BACK to the "Internal Speakers" (rather than the AirPlay destination), the AirPlay Screen Monitoring connection seems to remain stable.
My questions are:
- is anyone else experiencing this type of problem? any other solutions recommended?
- is there a way to change the AirPlay defaults so that Screen Mirroring only sends the video (not audio)?
- does anyone know what the log file entries indicate (like, what does "Feedback taking too long to send...." mean)?
- any fix planned for this issue?
From: "/var/log/system.log":
Jan 16 10:50:16 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:16.454404 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (1 seconds, 1 total)
Jan 16 10:50:18 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:18.524517 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (4 seconds, 2 total)
Jan 16 10:50:20 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:20.533639 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (6 seconds, 3 total)
Jan 16 10:50:22 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:22.548168 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (8 seconds, 4 total)
Jan 16 10:50:24 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:24.554522 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (10 seconds, 5 total)
Jan 16 10:50:24 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:24.554809 AM [AirPlay] ### Report network status (3, en0) failed: 1/0x1 kCFHostErrorHostNotFound / kCFStreamErrorSOCKSSubDomainVersionCode / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadResponseAddr / kCFStreamErrorDomainPOSIX / evtNotEnb / siInitSDTblErr / kUSBPending / dsBusError / kStatusIsError / kOTSerialSwOverRunErr / cdevResErr / EPERM
Jan 16 10:50:26 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:26.545531 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (12 seconds, 6 total)
Jan 16 10:50:28 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:28.559050 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (14 seconds, 7 total)
Jan 16 10:50:30 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:30.628868 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (16 seconds, 8 total)
Jan 16 10:50:32 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:32.655638 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (18 seconds, 9 total)
Jan 16 10:50:34 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:34.641952 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (20 seconds, 10 total)
Jan 16 10:50:36 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:36.659854 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (22 seconds, 11 total)
Jan 16 10:50:38 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:38.653594 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (24 seconds, 12 total)
Jan 16 10:50:40 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:40.659279 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (26 seconds, 13 total)
Jan 16 10:50:42 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:42.745549 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (28 seconds, 14 total)
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.532853 AM [AirPlay] ### Endpoint "AppleTV" feedback error: -6722/0xFFFFE5BE kTimeoutErr
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533151 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback failed: -6722/0xFFFFE5BE kTimeoutErr
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533273 AM [AirPlay] ### Error with endpoint "AppleTV": -6722/0xFFFFE5BE kTimeoutErr
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533427 AM [BonjourBrowser] Reconfirming PTR for AppleTV._airplay._tcp.local. on en0
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533588 AM [BonjourBrowser] Reconfirming PTR for 9C207BBD8EA1@AppleTV._raop._tcp.local. on en0
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.533839 AM [AirPlay] ### AirPlay report: Network dead for 10+ seconds after 159 seconds, screen, nm "AppleTV", tp WiFi, md AppleTV3,1, sv 190.9, rt 0, fu 0, rssi -54
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.534104 AM [AirPlay] ### Report network status (5, en0) failed: 1/0x1 kCFHostErrorHostNotFound / kCFStreamErrorSOCKSSubDomainVersionCode / kCFStreamErrorSOCKS5BadResponseAddr / kCFStreamErrorDomainPOSIX / evtNotEnb / siInitSDTblErr / kUSBPending / dsBusError / kStatusIsError / kOTSerialSwOverRunErr / cdevResErr / EPERM
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.534315 AM [AirPlay] Deactivating virtual display stream for quiesce
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.543682 AM [AirPlayScreenClient] Stopping session
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.543815 AM [AirPlay] Quiescing endpoint 'AppleTV'
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.543907 AM [AirPlayScreenClient] Stopping session internal
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local coreaudiod[161]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.544218 AM [AirPlayScreenClient] Stopped session internal
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[985]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.544266 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local SystemUIServer[159]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.544297 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local SystemUIServer[159]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.553084 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[985]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.554904 AM [AirPlayAVSys] ### Quiesce AirPlay
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local SystemUIServer[159]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.557604 AM [AirPlayAVSys] Ignoring route away when AirPlay not current
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local AirPlayUIAgent[985]: 2014-01-16 10:50:44.560307 AM [AirPlayAVSys] Ignoring route away when AirPlay not current
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local WindowServer[89]: Display 0x04280880: GL mask 0x21; bounds (0, 0)[1920 x 1080], 62 modes available
Jan 16 10:50:44 My-MacBook-Pro.local WindowServer[89]: GLCompositor: GL renderer id 0x01022727, GL mask 0x0000001f, accelerator 0x00004ccb, unit 0, caps QEX|MIPMAP, vram 2048 MB
I am happy to provide more information if needed.
Thank you.
-Tim

I'm currently still experiencing this as well. I've confirmed it occurs on 10.9.1, 10.9.2, and 10.9.3 on MacBook Pro Retina's, Mid-2012 and 2013 MacBooks. It happens on multiple ATV's not just one, all are updated to 6.1.1 and a simple reboot seems to fix it temporarily but it does come back. All the ATV's are connecting to the network via Wireless not Ethernet. These are 3rd Gen ATV's but I checked the serial number and these do not match the bad batch of Apple TV's from 2013 that were offered up for Replacement for Apple due to the bad firmware update. None of the computers have the Firewall turned on. Here's the two logs that we always find after the issue occurs (logs are recent, happened this morning):
5/30/14 8:57:36.017 AM coreaudiod[183]: 2014-05-30 08:57:36.016946 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback taking too long to send (30 seconds, 17 total)
5/30/14 8:57:36.332 AM coreaudiod[183]: 2014-05-30 08:57:36.331492 AM [AirPlay] ### Feedback failed: -6723/0xFFFFE5BD kCanceledErr
The user will get disconnected from Airplay anywhere between 30 seconds to 3 minutes after logging on and can reconnect but then once again get disconnected after the same time period. One interesting thing to note is that when the Feedback Taking Too Long to send error starts occuring and the countdown to disconnect start ticking down to 30, its solely referring to Audio not being sent over the network and Video is working just fine. If I try to play sound I get another log and the sound doesn't play through the speakers. After a reboot, sound works fine and the Feedback Error's do not show up. I've also tried switching to Internal Speakers (since it defaultly switches to Airplay Speakers) after connecting to Airplay and seeing the Feedback timer start in the Console Logs but even after that the log continues to saw its taking too long to send and disconnects in 30 seconds.
This issue has been ongoing for months, I've got a ticket logged as far back as January with this occuring but its infrequent enough that we've just restarted and moved on. I'd say its an issue that occurs to about 5%-10% of meetings but that's an entire meeting that doesn't have the ability to Airplay until someone comes down and reboots it.
I don't often post in this forum but its still an active issue with no resolution, proof that its occuring on other people's systems, and no firmware updates having been released to correct it. It'd be nice to know of any workarounds other than having to buy some lamp timers for each conference room just to get a functional ATV or putting up a sign that says hey if you get disconnected every 3 minutes, reboot the ATV. The whole reason we're using Apple products is for ease of use otherwise I'd put together a much cheaper solution myself. Any help or recommended troubleshooting steps would be fantastic at this point.

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Running a cable to the HDMI port is still supported. (and still works on mine).
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Any solutions or do I have to count my losses with Apple Airplay and spend more money on a 3rd party alternative (AirParrot)?

Hi eoinodonnell,
The problem was resolved, but I have the worst answer... it just started working, and has remained reliable since. I never found out exactly what fixed it, but I would try these things:
1) Try a factory reset on the Apple TV, and make sure your Macbook pro has all the latest updates.
2) Try to repair disk permissions (better to do it from disk utility from boot menu) and reboot your macbook.
3) Backup your files and do a fresh install of OSX.
I know I performed all these tasks, and possibly more, but something along the way did fix the problem.
I hope something here works! If so, please let me know what did it.

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Any suggestions, tips, ideas, etc. to get this working is appreciated!

Rudegar wrote:
your macbook dont support airplay mirror
He has an Early-2011 MacBook Pro, which does meet the requirements. The issue is that it is running OS X 10.7.5 and needs to be upgraded to Mountain Lion to use mirroring.

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Read > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5404 AirPlay Mirroring requires an Early 2011 or newer MacBook Pro, so your MacBook Pro isn't supported.
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