Home Sharing Works, but no Devices Shown
Should my iPhone show up in iTunes Home Sharing. Or ATV2 for that matter.
I have Home Sharing set up in iTunes and on both AppleTV2 and iPhone 4. All are running the latest software. Both ATV2 and iPhone are able to stream my iTunes Library without Issue.
What does not happen is either device show up in iTunes as a Sharing device. I don't even see Sharing when the devices are actively using the Library. I have Shared Libraries selected in Preferences.
I had the same problem and fixed it yesterday. Atv2 kept killing my internet connection but only when I tried streaming music or video from my itunes library to atv. I could watch netflix or youtube all day with no problem but within a minute or so of attempting to stream from itunes, our internet connection to the whole home network would die, requiring a reset of the router/modem to fix.
After reading of people with mostly the same problem and trying a few fixes, I finally called Apple support. They had me try two things, neither of which worked but ultimately helped me figure out what to do. They walked me through a restore operation of my atv2 unit and they said if that didn't work, exchange my unit for a new one. Neither the restore operation or the new unit fixed the problem.
What ended up fixing it for me was a firmware update to my Linksys WRT54G router. After updating to the newest firmware and changing nothing else about my network, I fired everything up and can now stream itunes library music and video all I want and my internet connection remains connected. I do notice a little slowdown browsing the internet when I am streaming HD video with Dolby Digital sound, but it is only somewhat noticeable and to be expected.
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Question says it all: I can still see and play music from another home shared Mac, but in this latest iTunes version the option dialogue (to limit the items displayed to those not already on the viewing computer) at the bottom of the window is no longer there. Why not? This is a very useful way of syncing libraries between shared computers,and it is still mentioned in the Help file. Has Apple not noticed it has gone?
@Dr-House:
Dude this worked!!!
this was really bothering me!
thanks a ton for posting and helping all us noobies! -
Home Sharing works, but not able to transfer files between PCs.
I have two laptops at home, one is an old one I keep dedicated to my Apple TV 2nd Gen. (so I don't have to have my laptop on, or my wife can use the ATV if I'm at work w/ my laptop, etc.)
Anyway, I sync all my media between both computers so when my laptop is not home, ATV still has full media function (as does my laptop). Used to be able to connect via Home Sharing and there was a drop-down menu with an option at the bottom of the Library to show only those files not in my library. I would use that function to transfer all recently added media to the ATV laptop. Since upgrading to iTunes 10, that dropdown menu is nowhere to be found. Any ideas?
I can still connect and play media through Home Sharing, but if my primary laptop leaves the range of the network, the new media content on it can't be accessed on ATV. Primary laptop is Windows 7, ATV-dedicated lap is on Windows XP.
Was the ability to transfer files through Home Sharing lost between iTunes 9 and 10 or did this feature just get moved somewhere else? If it was lost, how can I revert back to iTunes 9? If nothing else, I can just transfer via an external HD, but was just very convenient and easy through Home Sharing...
Thanks for any input!
-B>>scp <file_name> <2nd machine>:path
What error message do you get ?
did the connection time out ?
Pradeep -
Does home sharing work between iOS devices
Or is it only from a mac or pc to an ios device.
HI there,
Home Sharing in iTunes is designed to let you easily share your iTunes media libraries between up to five computers in your household. You can also use Home Sharing to play your iTunes content on your iOS devices and Apple TV (2nd generation) if they are connected to your home Wi-Fi network. Take a look at the article below for more information.
Understanding Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
-Griff W. -
Apple TV 2 Home Sharing depends on Source Device?
So I've been running into an issue with Home Sharing on my Apple TV 2. This is present on both the 4.2.2 and 4.3.2 firmware. (I own 2 Apple TV 2's. One vanilla and one running FireCore aTV Flash Black)
When attempting to play back video content from my Mac Mini (C2D, 2GB RAM, 2.0Ghz, Mid 2007) I was unable to load any HD content, and SD content was also pretty miserable. I recently discovered this when trying to play Dexter Season 5 HD from my Mac Mini to my Apple TV 2. Both devices on wi-fi initially.
I tried this both from wired and wireless configurations, I tried switching my Airport Extreme to 5Ghz only, (which my Mac Mini lacks "n"), and no combination of configurations seemed to resolve the issue.
Reluctantly, I decided to try importing the TV Shows to my Macbook Pro (13", 8GB RAM, 2.4Ghz, Mid-2010). What I found was that everything now worked seamlessly. I tried this wired, wireless, and even went so far as to hook my MBP up to the same network cable my Mac Mini was using to see if it had anything to do with the gigabit switch it was connected to. In every scenario Home Sharing to my Apple TV 2 from my Macbook Pro worked as designed.
So this got me thinking. Does the ability/quality to AirPlay/Home Share to the Apple TV 2 depend on the source device? My CPU nor my RAM on the Mac Mini were ever troubled or maxed out by attempting to stream content to my Apple TV 2. This leads me to believe the only component that could be causing the issue is the GPU. My Mac Mini only has the Intel GMA 950 GPU, my MBP has a NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB.
It makes sense to me that the Apple TV 2 isn't really decoding the video file. The hardware really isn't there to support decoding video streams. It seems likely to me that the heavy lifting is done by the source device and the transcoded video/audio is simply presented by the ATV2.
Does anyone actually understand the technical workings of AirPlay/Home Sharing? Perhaps an iOS developer?
If this is the case I'm going to have to start looking to upgrade my Mac Mini. It's about time anyway, but this would be the final tipping point in my upgrade debate.
P.S.: "Senior" community members who have nothing to contribute should refrain from responding to this thread only to pad their post counts. Legitimate responses only please.Ok, I'm glad you've said that, now what documentation do you have to back that up? Where in the Apple documentation/support site can you point to backup your claim? Do you tested any configurations that would support your assumptions?
I'd assume that the Apple TV 2 does most of the work, but the evidence I have collected does not support that assumption.
You've just thrown your own response under the bus. If the video is compressed, and the ATV2 is doing the decompression, you wouldn't need to worry about bandwidth, now would you?
This is EXACTLY why I don't come to the communities/forums anymore. Every "know-it-all" thinks they have THE answer, but they are just as clueless as everyone else. The difference being they are chasing a status, and not the true answer to anyone's actual problem or question.
If you would like to continue to dig this hole feel free. I'll take the shovel when you are done.
I've been moderated and banned by this forum before for calling this kind of behaviour out, and I'm sure this will happen yet again.
Does anyone else have documentation, proof, or some other concrete evidence to support how Home Sharing works from a device to the Apple TV 2? -
I have an intel iMac OS 10.6.8 with iTunes 11.0.2 and an Apple TV with software 5.2. Home sharing worked fine until I added a VoIP device to my wired ethernet network. Now Apple TV cannot recognize my computer. How can I reconfigure?
I have an intel iMac OS 10.6.8 with iTunes 11.0.2 and an Apple TV with software 5.2. Home sharing worked fine until I added a VoIP device to my wired ethernet network. Now Apple TV cannot recognize my computer. How can I reconfigure?
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A have a problem with the videos app and iTunes home sharing on multiple iOS devices.
This is my setup. On my iMac 2006 with Snow Leopard I have:
- 100+ dvd's ripped in my iTunes movie section
- 600+ episodes ripped in iTunes TV-section in 35 TV-shows
- 1 apple tv, 1 iPad 2, 1 iPad mini
On an average evening my family is watching different tv-shows simultaneously on the apple tv, the ipad, an iphone, and an ipad mini.
This is done through home sharing on the one iTunes library.
All updated apps, software etc..
What happens on the ipads, after viewing for more than 10 minutes, the user interface doesn't show up when tapping the screen. The touchscreen doesn't respond, only the home button works. Clicking the home button closes the app, but the sound of the video keeps on playing. Opening up the videos app again gives a black screen with sound still playing and still no button or UI.
The only workaround which currently works is killing the videos app. Power off the ipad and power on again, reconnect to the shared library, wait until it has found all the content (1+ minutes) and startup the tv show again.
All in all, a nasty way to pause your viewing or switching to another movie of tv episode, or even wanting to finish viewing.
The problem has haunted me for a year now, patiently waiting and hoping software-updates would fix it. They didn't.
A fix would obviously hugely improve my user experience, getting it on par with Apples usual quality of service.
Anyone familiar with this problem? Apple: is it possible to fix it in an update?Same here for over a year now.
You cant imagine how happy i am that im not the only one with this problem.
many of frinds have the same setup as me (ipad 2, 27"imac, express, apple tv 2)
No problem
I had the problem on Snow Leopard, lion and now on mountain lion.
I'am also starting to get a new problem - sometimes when waching a movie on iPad or ATV it just quits the movie and you have to start it again
on the iPad most of the time it also shows the wrong cover art. I tried all the hints here, and i works for a day or two then its wrong again
I store my itunes library on an external drive - you ??? -
Home Sharing - works in WiFi, not Ethernet: Help!
Hi all -
I've had an Apple TV happily working with Home Sharing from a Mac Mini when both were on the WiFi network from my Time Capsule router.
However, I've just installed Ethernet cabling at home so all three are now connected on a wired network, and Home Sharing is no longer working on the Apple TV.
The Apple TV simply says that it can't find the Mac, and to check that it is on the same network. However, there's only one wired network / LAN in the building - just two CAT5 cables running to the Time Capsule, which is then getting the Internet from a cable modem.
Any idea how I can resolve this?Katrina S. wrote:
+Seriously? No answers at all?+
This is a user forum. Lotsa folks asking questions, few sticking around to give any answers. Just depends who is around to see a message and whether they have any ideas to help. Could take days, not minutes or hours.
+I have created and tried this with three different accounts, but they all fail to enable Home Sharing.+
I'm confused why you're trying 3 different accounts. Try it using the same single account and two different PCs. Does that work? Can you download and play a free song of the week using one of those itunes store accounts?
Going forward, I hope you decide to only use one account. They can never be combined later. You'll have to forever remember the login credentials of each itunes store account if you move stuff to a new PC.
I tried 3 accounts, because none of them work for Apple TV. Yet, all three of them DO access the Apple store and forums and music and everything on this website.
Did I say anything about combining these accounts? Not even remotely helpful.
It's the same for me, as it is for rlongfield22(above).
I am absolutely serious: Apple is the most difficult, ridiculous, illogical interface I have EVER seen in 18 years of computing and using the internet. I use both MACs and PCs daily, so I can easily compare the experiences on many levels.
I know what I am doing on a PC and I rarely make common errors. I know my Apple ID and pass by heart(all three of them). I know my PC and network name by heart. My network and PC have the passwords blank.
So,...I should be able to have my Apple TV work, by simply activating Home Sharing on this network(done that successfully) and then activating it on my Apple TV(doesn't work).
I have tried activating Apple TV network first and tried activating Home Sharing first, but neither one works. When I plug in the Apple TV, the blue light flashes and then stays on. -
HT202213 I have two computers with home sharing on, but I can't transfer music. What do I do?
I have two computers with home sharing on, but I can't transfer music. What do I do?
What do you mean by "won't pick up the songs"?
You can only sync with one iTunes library. However, you can manage mauic and videos among different computer by:
Using iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers
You can transfer iTunes purchases to a computer by:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer -
2 atv's both have home sharing enabled but one asks to turn on home sharing on my pc, but it is enabled on pc so I can only use one at a time to watch movies from my computer
Both atv,s are on the same network, they are wirless and the computer can see them and they are named different.
what ever one i switch on first gets to stream from my computer and the other one asks for home sharing to be switched on, then if i switch both off and start the other one first it gets to stream and the other one which worked asks for home sharing to be turned on. i have hidden all functionality, netflix etc as these are for my 7yr old kids. -
My i phone 4 is water damaged and it is working but network not shown so please help me
my i phone 4 is water damaged and it is working but network not shown so please help me
A replacement iPhone is usually a refurbished iPhone that has received new battery and case and repair of anything that may have been faulty. The refurbished iPhone is indistinguishable from a new iPhone. A number of the regulars on here prefer the refurbished Aplle products because they have been so thoroughly tested.
A replacement iPhone is identical to the original, same color, capacity, and so on. -
Does home sharing work for apps? My young son received iPad mini for Christmas, and I don't want him to have to repurchase the games and other raps I'd already bought for him that are resident on my iPad.
does Home Sharing allow you to copy any item begtween libraries, including CDs you have ripped yourself
It certainly allows you to copy ripped CDs. Just did that myself last week. -
How does home sharing work between your computers?
How does home sharing work between computers?
With any luck, the following document may be of some assistance:
Understanding Home Sharing -
my i pad air doesnt respond, it's time and battery icon on display, sleep and home botton work. but display is not responding. what should i do. thank you so much
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097 You have to plug the ipad into a cpu with itunes and then follow these articals.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414 -
Home sharing working fine - but not for paid itunes content on some devices
My setup is a simple apple home sharing network.
I have a mac mini running OS X 10.6.8 and itunes 11.0.3(42) it hosts a lot of music, DVD's that have been re-encoded and paid for content from itunes.
The mac mini is conntected to the network over a very good gigbit lan and has 4 apple TV3 (latest gen) hanging off the network, and multiple PC/Mac/ipod/ipad devices hanging off the network.
All these devices connect using home sharing and work very well (I can use all 4 apple TV devices at once streaming 1080p media with no lag / delay problems)
There is one exception to this, my PC and Mac.
I have a Macbook pro running OX 10.6.8 and itunes 11.0.3(42) and a PC running Windows 7 64bit with Itunes 11.0.3(42). Both are also connected via gigabit lan, both run of SSD's so have excellent local disk performance, both have over 6 GB of ram at least.
If I open itunes and connect to the itunes home media server and play music, tv shows films all is well, ranging anything from a DVD rip to a HD bluray rip. as soon as I try to play a HD movie or TV show downloaded from itunes there is a problem. I get approx 30 seconds into the content and then it just stops as if I'd hit pause and never actually starts playing.
At first I thought this was buffering problems/flooding on my lan, so I isolated this, even though my network monitor shows lots of capacity on the lan, I removed all devices apart from the mac mini serving the home media and either the PC or the Mac, I hit the same problem.
To diagnose this further I opened a network monitor application on the PC, the playback mac and the media server mac mini and tried to open a file in itunes.
on the client and the server the network spikes straight away, and uses 100 network for around 5 seconds (if I do this with other devices such as apple TV's plugged into the network too the overall usage is lower, it basically uses as much as is availble, so %100 utilization isn't a problem) and then the network traffic just stops on both devices. The same is true of the disk activity, I see a raise is disk I/O on the home media mac mini for 4 - 5 seconds and then a lesser spike on the local playback machine both stop after 4 - 5 seconds in sync with the network stopping.
Both machines remain on the network fine, but the transmission of the media between itunes server and client just stops. I then open another file, a bluray rip, some music etc, and it plays works fine, return back to the paid for itunes content, it fails at exactly the same spot.
This happens on any itunes paid for HD movie or TV shows, so it's not just one file, it's approx any of the 200 itunes downloaded HD files I have on this machine.
I can play the files fine with apple TV's, I've tried watching 4 different apple downloaded itunes HD films at once on 4 apple TV's it works fine, it's only if I open the file via itunes with the PC or Mac.
All are linked with the same home sharing account so it's not / shouldn't be a DRM style issue.
Why is this happening on the more powerful PC/Mac computers, but not on the lesser apple TV, ipad, iphone devices ?going to try to bump this to get some traction / suggestions on it
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