Traveling with my Apple TV

i am traveling and brought my Apple TV. I did not bring the remote, assuming I could use my remote App on either my iPhone or iPad. The Apple TV hooks up fine on the TV but my remote app won't see my Apple TV. Since the app won't see the Apple TV how do I get a wifi password into my Apple TV ?? Am I missing something easy or am I screwed without the remote control??

The remote app requires both to be on the same network and home sharing enabled on Apple TV. You will need a physical remote to setup on a new network. The alternative is to use a Bluetooth keyboard or an IR universal remote like Logitech Harmony.

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Traveling with apple tv

We thought that we could travel with our apple tv so we could access Netflix. We have been struggling to do make it work. It keeps looking for our desk top. Is there anything we can do?

What do you mean it is looking for your desktop? The ATV doesn't care if a computer is accessible on the network or not.
Is the ATV active on the network?
If so, simply use the Netflix app on the ATV to stream whatever is desired from their catalog.

Travel with Apple TV - Wireless Bridge?

I travel extensively and travel with Apple TV, MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad2. After losing about 10 Apple Remotes, I now try to use my iPhone or iPad as the remote to my Apple TV. In fact, it's better than the Apple Remote!
All is wonderful as long as the hotel uses ethernet to connect to the internet. If that's the case, I plug the ethernet cable into my MacBook Pro and create an ad hoc network to share the connection to the other devices, making them all on the same network.
If the hotel only has wireless connections, it only works for one device. I can share the wireless connection through my MacBook Pro, but then I can only plug in the Apple TV, thus not being able to use the Remote application for my iPhone or iPad.
I've been looking at Wireless Bridges. I asked at the Apple Store if the Airport Express or Extreme would work and was told it would not. Does anyone know if a wireless bridge would work? I would bridge the wireless connection to the ethernet port of my MacBook Pro, then share the ethernet back out wirelessly.
Suggestions/ideas?

There is only one account created on this computer, so that makes it the admin. account, right?
Even if your user account has admin privileges, apps don't run as administrator by default. You have to authorize it with your password for that to happen. If you right-click on the iTunes icon, there should be a "Run as Administrator" option in the popup menu.

Travelling with Apple TV?

Hello everyone,
I'm temporarily living in Australia for the next year or so, and I've brought over a UK purchased apple TV. I also have a UK registered iTunes account.
Everything seems to work OK except that streaming content purchased directly from iTunes is slow (e.g. 30-50 minutes before starting to watch a TV show or movie whereas this took roughly ~30 seconds at home).
If we take connectivity speeds out of the equation (I'm getting ~10Mbps) do any of the following factors affect the streaming rate?
Having a UK registered iTunes account - in this case do I convert the iTunes account to Australia (and does this have any other implications?)
Change the settings on my modem/router to use a different DNS
Other - all suggestions welcomed!
What other experiences are out there - this can't be an uncommon scenario for people out and about on business travel/holidays etc etc.
Thanks!
PS this is last years apple tv model.

Thanks, tzbikowski
I didn't realize that the USB was only for servicing. Curious.
Optical likely isn't an option for the stereo, unless I found some sort of optical-input DAC, which I don't currently have. (I can now go USB to HagUSB for S/PDIF input to my Resolution Audio DAC, or AirTunes via Airport Express analog to standard inputs on the pre-amp.)
My idea was to be able to view, say, concert videos on/with the Apple TV, with the sound coming out on the stereo. I have a 5.1 setup for the TV, but the stereo rig sound sooo much better.

When traveling in Europe, Im thinking of using the converter with the apple charger (110-240) to make sure i dont burn it out....will that work?

when traveling in Europe, Im thinking of using a power converter with my apple charger(110-240) to make sure i dont burn out my ipad mini or iphone 5.
will that work?

It is not necessary
Apple power supplies are made to use from 110 to 230 volts without any converter required
You will need adapters to get the pins to fit the wall sockets but that is it
Allan

I had 2 Apple IDs but now Apple implemented new conditions and i can't use one of them after 90 days using the prior one..! - "This Device Is Already Associated With an Apple ID"

I have two Apple IDs because i travel frequently between Mexico and the US, and the apple stores offer different products, so i like to download music, movies and TV series from both sites.
Apparently apple changed the conditions, becauise until a few days ago i could log our from one account and log in from my other one. Yesterday i was at Miami International Airport and wanted to download a few chapters from one of my TV series (Walking Dead) to watch on my way to Mexico City, but a pop up window came up saying "this device is already associated with an apple id". Curoiously, the ID to which i was connected to was precisely the one under which i had bought weeks ago the chapters i was wanting to download from the cloud. So it says i have to wait 90 days to change apple id.... weard! probably i accepted these terms when dowloading a new IOS version, so legally I'm dead in complaining, but why is it that if i am paying for all that i buy as a model citizen i am now blocked from jumping from one apple id to another one???? I can certainly buy another ipad and have one with one id and another one with the other, but is there any other way i can keep the two in just one device?? If i don't use i-could would anything change? This is really making me mad, and is the first time i have thought of moving our of mac products into samsung or others and buy my music and movies somewhere else where stupid restrictions like this one do not exist. Please help with a solution!

OK, but in my ipad, the apple id i have in itues is already the one iwant to have, but th one i used to sin in for i-coud is the other one. Any tip as to how to change the apple id for icloud and any idea how to know what apps i bought with the other apple id so as to delete them from my ipad to avoid being asked to enter another apple id every time they get updated? thanks!

Using a family members iPad with my apple ID to watch a tv show I have purchased on my brothers device - get 90 day download warning - why?

I live in Texas and am visiting my family in Georgia. I didn't travel with my iPad as there are 4 at home I can use. I sign my brothers Apple ID out in the iTunes Store sign in as myself and attempt to watch a tv show I have purchased and get the for 90 days you can't download anything form iTunes to this device with a different apple ID warning. Why can't I just stream this tv show on my brothers device since I have purchased it on my device and am logged into iTunes on my brothers device with my apple ID? What a pain in the as?.

First of all would not be streaming the show on his iPad, you would be downloading a purchased item on his iPad for free. And it is something that was not purchased with his ID. It was purchased with your ID. I believe that Apple does that to prevent users from giving each other purchased content without buying it on their own. That's my take anyway.
You can read about associating a device with another iTunes account here.
iTunes Store: Associating a device or computer to your Apple ID.

I am traveling with my macbook pro and I forgot to install final cut express and quicktime pro before I left. How can I in a way download them for free on my laptop from where I am

I am traveling with my macbook pro and I forgot to install final cut express and quicktime pro before I left. How can I in a way download them for free on my laptop from where I am? I need them and don't want naturally to buy them again!!!
Thank you

Assuming you purchased QT Pro, you can always download it again at no extra charge by logging in to your Apple account.
Regarding FCE, there is no way to download & install the product. You need an original FCE install disk and your FCE serial number.
Final Cut Pro X (aka FCPX) can be purchased & downloaded from the App Store.

HT204053 "This Device already associated with an apple ID" message is making me crazy. Can you help?

Hi,
I have a new Iphone, a 4s, that I was given to me by my employer. It replaces my old one, my personal phone, that I gave to my daughter. Everything worked well until I turned ITunes Match "OFF" because I was traveling overseas and didn't want to download songs using expensive data connections. When I turned it back on, I saw: "This device is already associated with an Apple ID." Then it tells me that I have to wait 90 days to download my library. I am now on Day 64 and counting...but I want to see if I have done something wrong that is making this happen, and rectify it.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks.

For anyone else having a similar issue, I contacted Apple and they instantly resolved the problem. Great service, as always.

ITunes Store - Switching between Store Accounts - 'This Computer is already associated with an Apple ID' error

Howdy
So I have 2 store accounts, as I travel and live between two countries. I have been using this accounts for at least 6 years. I regularly swap between the two, depending on which country I am in. I have never encountered any issues, I buy, rent and download regularly.
For the first time ever, when I logged out of one store and into the other store (using the sign in /out option from the dropdown menu) and clicked 'download' for the tv episode I had available (from a season pass), a popup box appeared with the 'This computer is already associated with an Apple ID.'
- If you download past purchases with your Apple ID, you cannot auto-download or download past purchases with a different Apple ID for 90 days.
The option is to 'Cancel' or 'Transfer'
I have encountered this problem on my iPad and iPhone previously, but never on my computer. I haven't done anything different either.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Has Apple finally decided to stop people having multiple store accounts?
I appreciate any help.

The potential to associate a computer to an account for 90 days has been possible for a number of years like it has been on iOS devices, and can happen if you use iTunes Match, automatic downloads or redownload past purchases (though, based on some posts I've seen, it doesn't always seem to happen) - I believe it's an attempt to try and stop people logging into their account on other people's computers or devices and redownloading/sharing their content, not to stop people having multiple accounts.
It shouldn't stop you buying new content on the account, just doing any of the above three things. If you want to do one of them on your other account then you can try contacting iTunes Support and see if they will remove the current association, but if you then do one of them on the other account then you are likely to start a 90 association to that account instead : Manage your associated devices in iTunes - Apple Support.

This Device is already associated with an Apple ID after subscribed iTune match.

Since subscribed iTune match, I cannot listen to my music although I enabled iTune Match for my iPad2. Instead, it always displayed "This Device Is Already Associated With An Apple ID. You can use iTunes Match on this device with just one apple ID every 90 days. This device can be used with another Apple ID in 75 days." I only pressed "OK".
Who could help me or give me suggestions about that.
Thanks.

Well, that's a bummer. I guess Apple thinks no one ever travels. I live in 2 countries and thus have 2 different accounts with 2 different credit cards. Now that iTunes match deleted my entire catalogue on my iPad 2 because I signed in with my second country account yesterday to buy an App. I resigned into my first country account today only to have everything deleted. No I have to wait a few weeks to put my music back on my iPad until I return to my first country and transfer it from my Mac. Argh!

How can you expect the customer to have a LOCAL/COUNTRY Based Credit Card every where we go??? Last week I was on holiday in HK, and from my Hotel I was able to use m VN Credit Card with my Apple ID and purchase online! Why THIS WEEK, can't I use my HS

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How can you expect the customer to have a LOCAL/COUNTRY Based Credit Card every where we go???
Last week I was on holiday in HK,
and
from my Hotel I was able to use m VN Credit Card with my Apple ID and purchase online!
Why THIS WEEK, can't I use my HSBC Platinum Credit Card from Vietnam,
for my Singapore Apple ID account ,
while working here in Vietnam???

Unfortunately, this is a problem that is driven by the DRM Dictatorship. Despite the proliferation of mobile devices and the fact that there are many of us who do a lot of international travel, content providers don't want you to have access to their products outside of your homeland. The Balkanized mentality of the DRM Dictatorship is way out of touch with the modern world.
At least Apple, to its credit, allows you to use your accounts outside of your homeland as long as you have the proper credentials for them. Most other services use the more Draconian geolocation filtering which does require you to be physically present in your homeland. For the most part, you are not allowed to leave home if you want access to your favorite entertainment!

Travelling with access to no external drive - show what's available now

Ok this is kinda like another unanswered post I have.
If I am travelling with my MB and want to listen to my music in itunes it still shows my entire library which is 80% not available because its on an external drive at home.
How do I get itunes to only show what is available on the laptops internal drive?

Good stuff. Thanks. Agree in principle re: "TBolt for displays; USB3 for storage".
I did get a USB 3 hub. (Amazon link. There is a 7-port hub as well.) Highly recommended (at least for rMBP users). This works well with how I use Aperture: I have several external drives with mostly Referenced Originals and some Libraries. Since I rarely use more than one of these at a time, it doesn't matter that the hub throughput is limited to a single USB 3 channel. The USB 3 hub, for me, functions as a quasi-data-server for Aperture, and takes up only one of the two USB 3 ports on the rMBP. (Fwiw, with the rMBA I don't think there's much reason for storing Referenced Originals on a fast drive; because of the efficiency of the way Aperture caches, USB 2 may be fast enough. I haven't measured this yet.)
I mentioned eSATA only because almost all my external drives came with eSATA ports and cables. I have never used eSATA. At this point, I don't plan to.
I have moved a few drives into USB 3 enclosures (purchased from OWC). With the USB 3 hub, and the newly-available Apple TBolt-FW800 adapter (which supports daisy-chained FW devices), I am no longer in any practical way limited by the four ports on the rMBP (2x TBolt, 2x USB 3). Whew.
I backup my system drive wirelessly to a Time Capsule every night (by design, the machine doesn't have access to the TC during the day when I'm working), and use SuperDuper to backup all Libraries and Referenced Originals to specific sparse bundles kept on leap-frogging external drives, with one always off-site. At this point I make no practical distinction between FW800 and USB 3 drives for back-up, as they are all fast enough and the back-ups run unattended. (But USB 3 seems to be much faster.)

International travel with MBP--how to charge?

I'm preparing to leave the country for a month. Although I'm worried I'll somehow screw up my MacBook by bringing it along, I can't help myself.
Has anyone else charged one outside the country? Or charged a PowerBook? (I'm pretty sure the adapters are fairly equivalent, at least in the way they function.)
I'm going to Chile, which is 220V country, and I've heard that the white power brick should automatically convert/handle this voltage as long as I have a plug adapter to attach to the brick's prongs for use in different sized plugs.
Since I'm paranoid--and don't want to add "smoke emissions" to the whine, scorching heat, and the rest my MBP's known problems-- I'm curious if anyone else has verified this. And if so, which kind (brand) of adapter was used. Compared to others, Apple's own adapter seems pretty expensive.
When I called AppleCare yesterday, the rep said he thought I'd be ok, but his reticence didn't exactly instill confidence.
Anyway, thanks in advance for the help.

Apple sells their "World Travel Kit" for $39:
http://tinyurl.com/hjuu2
These work with any Apple AC adapter that uses the interchangeable plugs such as your iPod, PowerBook, iBook, Airport Express, and of course MacBook Pro.
As others have said, the AC adapter is good for 100-220V, so you don't need a power converter, just the right plug type.
Alternatively you could buy generic plug adapters that allow you to plug the US style plug in one side and then plug the adapter into the foreign outlet. In my experience these don't work very well with heavy AC adapters like the MBP as the weight of the AC adapter pulls it out of the weak plug adapter. I find the Apple version much better, even if it is a bit more expensive.
20-inch iMac G5 1.8; MacBook Pro 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Can I use iPad (in contract) in other countries while I am travelling with there local SIM? Or, only WiFi will be available when I travel?

Can I use iPad (in contract) in other countries while I am travelling with there local SIM?
Or, only WiFi will be available when I travel? Or, nothing will work?

Either will work. 4G only works in Canada and the USofA. In foreigh countries the New iPad will fall back to 3G if you have a local sim and iPad data plan from a local provider.
Read the specs: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

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