Back to My Mac is not connecting when external from my local network

I have an Aiport Extreme.  Back to My Mac is enabled with my Apple ID.  The Mac Mini I have hard wired into the router is also enabled for Back to my Mac.  It's utilizing the same Apple ID. 
Troubleshooting steps undertaken:
Reset router
Turned off back to my mac on my mac mini and then turned it back on after a few minutes.
Went into the airport utility. (tried each individually and together)
Created a DHCP reservation for that mac mini.
Enabled a default host for NAT. 
Unchecked the "block incoming IPv6 connections," but have turned it back on. 
In order to test the setup, I tether to my iPhone.  As soon as I tether, the mac mini disappears from shared devices in finder.

Hi
I have exactly the same problem. I've been tinkering with it for days on and off and so far find it has nothing to do with the setup. I've been through the suggestions as posted by Braden, although i discovered these myself earlier, and it made no difference. I've tried turning things on and off, resigning in to back to my mac and icloud over and over again.
I did discover that either a restart temporarily fixed the problem, or it was me turning off the firewall on the mac mini i wasn't sure, but in either event the fix only lasts a day or so and then the mini randomly disappear from the network (usually just before i really need it!).
Back to my mac was functioning perfectly before the Yosemite upgrade so I'm seriously thinking about downgrading to Mavericks as i now strongly believe it's a bug in Yosemite. If/when 10.1 update comes out, and if it still doesn't fix the problem, then i will jump back to mavericks.
Apart from that I've been really happy with Yosemite!
(sorry Hoosier, i just noticed you were on Mavericks not Yosemite... but same issues here. )

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