Should Apple TV appear on my mac's network? Home Sharing
just hooked up my Apple TV and set up to home share on my itunes. the TV is not finding my itunes which is set up to home share and i cant see the apple tv in my finder, networks. Should i see the Apple TV on my mac? and any suggestions what to do to get my mac's itunes libary on the Apple TV
thanks
Brad
ps my itunes is up to date.
the appletv does not show up in finder or network.
the appletv will not show up anywhere other than the bottom right of itunes where you can select different speakers.
homesharing needs enabled on both itunes and the appletv.
if the appletv cannot see itunes then it is possible that you have a firewall or anti-virus app blocking the connection.
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I can not access my itunes library on Apple TV. How do I turn on home sharing?
I Can not access my itunes library on Apple TV. How do I turn on home sharing?
Happy to help you :) go to seeing and than general or settings than iTunes store it's for sure in settings but you may want to set it up on your computer in which case it's (windows) edit > preferences (Mac) iTunes preferences
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Hello there, ozibw.
The following Knowledge Base article offers some great steps for troubleshooting Home Sharing:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro. -
HT202213 Where is the Apple website that I need to set up home sharing?
Where is the Apple website that I need to set up home sharing?
Understanding Home Sharing - Apple
http://www.apple.com/support/homesharing
iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer - Apple -
Hey there, Ihave the latest firmware update on my Apple TV 2. I have Lion with latest updates installed.
I have home sharing turned on in iTunes 10 no issues their
Network is set up as such.. Apple TV hardwired with Ethernet Cable, MAC where iTunes resides is WiFi on a dual band wireless N network. No dropped connections, network showing in perfect connected status.. All other home networking functions working perfectly. No wireless or ethernet disruptions.
Apple TV works perfect for about one hour then all of a sudden stops and says home sharing is turned off.. but it's not. Double checked iTunes on the MAC, home sharing still set up no issues. I restart iTunes.. does not help, reboot MAC does not help. Reset Apple TV doesn't help.
About an hour later, home sharing shows up in Apple TV again..
Anyone else experience this? Any thoughts as to why Home Sharing on the Apple TV stops by itself when no changes are occuring?Hey there, Ihave the latest firmware update on my Apple TV 2. I have Lion with latest updates installed.
I have home sharing turned on in iTunes 10 no issues their
Network is set up as such.. Apple TV hardwired with Ethernet Cable, MAC where iTunes resides is WiFi on a dual band wireless N network. No dropped connections, network showing in perfect connected status.. All other home networking functions working perfectly. No wireless or ethernet disruptions.
Apple TV works perfect for about one hour then all of a sudden stops and says home sharing is turned off.. but it's not. Double checked iTunes on the MAC, home sharing still set up no issues. I restart iTunes.. does not help, reboot MAC does not help. Reset Apple TV doesn't help.
About an hour later, home sharing shows up in Apple TV again..
Anyone else experience this? Any thoughts as to why Home Sharing on the Apple TV stops by itself when no changes are occuring? -
Solution for Apple TV 2, Xfinity router, Ethernet connection and Home Sharing
I have read over the past week the problems people have been having configuring their Apple TV and Home Sharing. I was experiencing the same issues as others....until tonight. I finally got it to work with an Ethernet connection. Previously, I was only able to get it to work via wifi and home sharing would drop after awhile.
1) Xfinity router settings. Like others I was suspicious if the Xfinity router was causing the issues because of the separation between wifi network and Ethernet network. It's not the router problem. I disabled the firewall. Enabled port forwarding. Gave a static IP address to the Apple TV. Added forwarding of ports
123 TCP
3689 UDP (all other support says this should be TCP but searched through and found a thread that suggested changing to UDP...this was the key)
5353 UDP
80 TCP
443 TCP
53 TCP
DMZ is off
Device discovery is disabled
Port triggering is disabled.
The wifi is setup and functional using DHCP. Lease time is 1 week.
RESET ROUTER AFTER ENTERING CONFIGURATION.
2) Mac computer. As of this posting the latest version of iTunes installed. Latest Safari version. All programs updated. Turned on Home Sharing. Turned off firewall. Gave Mac a static IP address. Set Mac for hard drive to never sleep. Set monitor to sleep after 15 minutes. Set date and time to automatically find based upon time zone. ( Apple TV needs to be set to the same time zone as computer and set to manual). Enabled file sharing amongst users on Mac.
3) Apple TV. Ethernet connection. Configured TCP/IP to static IP address I configured on router for the Apple TV. Turned on AirPlay. Set date and time to manual and set as the same time zone as the computer with iTunes. Turned on Home Sharing. Using latest version of Apple TV.
Once the router was reset ( not restored and not just resetting the wifi. A complete router reset), the Apple TV found my iTunes library. It's been running now for over an hour and no drop in the home sharing. Working beautifully. I will be testing in the next couple days allowing the Apple TV to sleep, turning the firewall on the router to a minimal setting to see if it changes anything.
Just tested the AirPlay from my iPad 2 to the Apple TV while the Apple TV is connected via ethernet connection and it works. At this point it appears that the setup is correct and complete with no errors.
As a side note, the Ethernet connection between my router and Mac is via commercial devices using the power outlets as the wiring.
Hope this helps many of you that were/ are struggling to get this to work like I was.spma3,
Appreciate your further message. As you say "it's not fixed", but at least your solution appears to be a viable workaround!
My Cisco RVS4000 Router will permit me to forward ports for up to 15 applications. Of these, thirteen already have default entries added, although none of these are presently Enabled. For example, here's just 2 lines...
Application HTTP NTP
External Port 80 123
Internal Port 80 123
Protocol TCP UDP
IP Address No entries at both
and the Enabled box for both is unchecked. In fact none of these 13 possibilities is Enabled.
To do what you are advising, I would need to...
1) Enable the above Port 123 entry, changing it from UDP-->TCP.
2) Add new entries for 3689 UDP & 5353 UDP... using the two free slots at the end of the table.
3) Select three of the default entries, and reconfigure them for 80 TCP; 443 TCP; 53 TCP, all as per your guidance. And Enable them.
Now, my present setup here has...
1) My PC is wired straight to Port 2 of the Router, and has a Static IP Address set.
My new ATV2 is hard-wired into the same subnet, albeit thru a series of switches, and again a Static IP is set. My understanding is that hard wiring an ATV automatically disables its WiFi.
3) My wife's iPad2 is set for DHCP, so it can pick up an IP Address when on the move. It connects into the LAN using one of two WAP4410N Wireless Access Points. Ch-1 & Ch-6, with same SSID and security stuff set up on both. The WAPs in turn are wired in, again with Static IPs set. So depending where she is in the property she can connect with excellent signal strength, reaching the ATV2 by WiFi+LAN.
On the Router DMZ is OFF, Port Range Triggering has no entries, nothing is Enabled, so is OFF. No idea about Device Discovery!
Home Sharing is ON for the PC, ATV2 and iPad2, with the same Apple ID/Password set for each. It does work, just not consistently as it should.
So to fully implement your idea, all I need to do is to enter these details. But I am unclear which IP Address I should put in at each new Single Port Forwarding entry field. Certainly not the iPad2, as its DHCP allocated value will change. Is it the ATV2 or the PC? Not sure, please clarify.
BTW, I have no plan to deactivate my AVG Firewall on this PC. It is happy to pass all traffic related to iTunes, so cannot see this as a factor. Time zone same on all equipment.
I tried with just 3689 UDP and 5353 UDP yesterday, and things were definitely better. I used 192.168.20.227, the IP Address for the ATV2.
Look forward to your answer. -
HT4352 I have a pc laptop and apple desktop and only the pc connect on home sharing. why?
I am having problems playing my Apple PC music and pics on apple tv. The IBM stuff comes thru ok. Even though after i set up home sharing my library pops up but after a long search it comes back stating that my pc and apple tv should be on the same id. The fact of the matter is that
they are. HelpWelcome to the Apple Community.
If the mac is set up correctly you may well have a problem on your network, start by checking the firewall (if you use one) is set up to allow iTunes, do you use any security software on the mac. -
I purchased a new mac and I am unable to connect to the home share on it. In the itunes pane the name is there but it will not show library when I click on it. I am trying to sync my ipad on the new machine and use some of the items off my other pc. I am using the same user name on both computers. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi,
See if these Links for Home Sharing add any light to the problem
Understanding
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819
Troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
How to
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2688 -
Can't find Apple TV Sync Menu; No ATV in iTunes, Home Sharing works
OK, I'm about to give up... My computer shows up in Apple TV (2nd Gen) in the ATV home sharing computer list but I am unable to find any reference to a sync menu or any options to force the sync to occur. I find references here in the support community to ATV showing up in iTunes. I can't find that anywhere. My firewall is off. I am using a Time Machine as my wireless router.
I've seen screen shots of a tabbed window explaining how to set up "sync" but I've never seen that window before. (see this link
http://web.mac.com/gartside1104/ATV/SyncvStream.html ). Is this an ATV1 / ATV2 / iTunes / Windows only feature?. I'm running OS 10.6.8 with latest updates, latest version of iTunes. Just updated the Apple TV software. I never see more than one library from my network at a time in ATV. I can directly connect to any computer to share via home sharing but I can't select a library to stream from in ATV (ATV1 feature only?) I can stream to the ATV from any network computer's shared iTunes library.
Just baffled here... Lots of hints but no answers.
My primary purpose was to limit the playlists in iTunes that will show up in ATV. The iTunes preferences for sharing on my local network successfully limit my sharing to specific playlists to other computers on the network, but ATV provides access to ALL playlists. Does home sharing use a different playlist selector than network sharing?
I set out to drain the swamp but am just wrestling with alligators.My computer shows up in Apple TV (2nd Gen) in the ATV home sharing computer list but I am unable to find any reference to a sync menu or any options to force the sync to occur.
The Apple TV2 doesn't sync, it's a streaming only device.
I find references here in the support community to ATV showing up in iTunes.
Only the Apple TV 1 shows up under the Devices list in iTunes.
I've seen screen shots of a tabbed window explaining how to set up "sync" but I've never seen that window before. (see this link
http://web.mac.com/gartside1104/ATV/SyncvStream.html ). Is this an ATV1 / ATV2 / iTunes / Windows only feature?.
Yes that's only for the Apple TV 1
I never see more than one library from my network at a time in ATV.
Are you using the same details for homesharing on each computer.
I can directly connect to any computer to share via home sharing but I can't select a library to stream from in ATV (ATV1 feature only?)
Sorry I don't understand that, could you explain please.
I can stream to the ATV from any network computer's shared iTunes library.
That sounds correct.
but ATV provides access to ALL playlists.
Yes unfortunately their is no way to restrict content that can be seen by the Apple TV2 -
Ipad makes network/home sharing available for Apple TV2 and iphone
I've always had issues using home sharing on my Apple TV2; it would often tell me i needed to turn on home sharing on my desktop even though it was on. Ususally restting the router and restarting iTunes would resolve the issue. I would have to do this everytime i tried to play something on my Apple TV2 from my desktop. THen i got an iPad 1 and it could find the shared folder instantly, when it would find it, it would all of a sudden make the Apple TV2 find my desktop (sometimes the Appl TV2 would hang there for 15 minutes searching for the desktop, i would go to videos on the iPad, and then "bang" the Apple TV would work). I just got an iphone 3gs and upgraded to iOS 6 (had the following issue with iOS 5, too) and when i go to the video app it is blank and says there are no videos on my iphone with a button for the store at the bottom. One time i hit the header reading "Videos" at the top and all of a sudden it listed which libraries i wanted to access, iPhone or Shared. Couldn't get that to happen again until just now i started the trusty old iPad and pointed it to the shared folder and all of a sudden my iPhone showed me the shared location again. Is there a way to access the home sharing network consistently without having to bot up the iPad everytime, especially on tyhe iPhone where there isnt a real location for doing this as far a I can tell. Everyone always refers to the old "iPod" app before they switched it to "Music" and would say you go to "More" and selected "Shared" but those options arent avaiable anymore. Thanks.
Follow up: It appears to have been caused by the Bose system. We have multiple areas that can be controlled by the Bose console. Playing another area (outdoor speakers) via one source (satellite) was interfering with playing the Apple TV in the den on the television. Apparently.
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I just upgraded my Apple TV 2. I am now no longer able to share music with my computers or use my Iphone as a remote. I can however use my iphone as a remote (via home sharing) with my other two macs. Any ideas?
Windows 8 has not been officially released and is not supported.
Try google for possible solutions... otherwise, downgrade the OS back to Windows 7 or wait until a version of iTunes is released that supports Windows 8. -
HT1338 I try to connect with apple TV throught , but i cannot find the home sharing in itunes
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DUY KHUCSorry for the "bump",
but I'm still at a loss about this problem.
I KNOW FOR SURE that I'm not the only person with this problem, so hopefully someone who's resolved this issue (or maybe even someone from APPLE) could help me out here?????
Thanks in advance -
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Did any of this make sense? Does anyone have suggestions. I have tried all things found here with search “file sharing”. Forgot to mention, on the new Mini the problem was there out of the box and remained after running the OS update.
ThanksNo need, I'm the only user and have myself set on all as admin. Never in all my near 30 years of networking Macs at home and managing my companies 600 or so Mac Network, with 68k, PPC, Intel units all running systems 7 - 8 - 9 -10 and all their mid versions and never had a lick of trouble with any sharing services. I've always just stuck them on the wire, fired up, and hit share, tick the boxes then Boom, all was seen by all. Same at home up till recently I had a G5 Tower as a server mixed in with all the intel, never a hiccup. The only troubles would be if a router or switch burned out. None of my iPhones, or iPods of various generations have had a problem with the home WiFi, the ones set up for disk usage have always shone up in the shared section of the sidebar, since have turned off disk usage so not part of the problem.
Thanks for trying though
J -
Should we share itunes store account if we use home sharing?
Right now, my children and I share an itunes store account, but it is getting hard to manage their itunes gift cards this way. Should I just bite the bullet and have them each get their own account? How will this affect home sharing? Do we just have to authorize multiple itunes store accounts on all the computers or does that even matter now that the content is no longer copy-protected. I only have some copy-protected items on the one original account and it is quite a bit of money to upgrade them so I would rather not do that. How would this work with syncing devices?
No home sharing does not delete anything. It does exactly what it says it does, it shares your music library with others and vise versa. I use it all the time in my home, and works perfectly. All it does is wirelessly adds music to your music library that you are able to play. Do you need help setting up iTunes Home Sharing?
Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with,
Cheers,
Allen -
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