Using Airparrot with an ethernet cable: suddenly, it quit
I live in a large apartment using a collective server and router. When I moved in a month ago, the only way I could access my Apple TV 3 from my MacBookPro (late 2009), running Snow Leopard and using the third party Airparrot to transmit, was to connect the Apple TV device and my laptop with an ethernet cable.
(I had done this back in the USA, as an experiment; it worked there, so I tried it here.)
With the cable plugged in, Apple TV automatically cut over to mirror my desktop and audio. When I pulled out the cable, Apple TV switched back to whatever I was watching via the WiFi. Fantastic, if a bit messy cablewise.
However, a week ago, something -- Airparrot suggests an automatic software update -- nudged the Apple TV's small brain and now it refuses to display what's happening on my computer when I plug in the cable. Instead, tells me it's now off the WiFi network. It becomes obsessed with getting back on and won't mirror what Airparrot is transmitting.
I reset and reclaimed the 5.2.1 software OS per Airparrot's advice. But it didn't solve the problem.
What's happening here? Airparrot says the problem lies in the Apple TV software. Apple says the WiFi/Ethernet switch is built into the Apple TV design and that's just the way it is. All I know is, it was working before -- for three weeks I watched on the TV set what was displaying on my laptop, using the cable to connect my MBP and the Apple TV device.
Now I can't watch my favorite BBC shows (accessed via a VPN) on the TV screen, where they belong. Bummer. Any help understanding what's happening, or better yet, how to work around it, would be appreciated.
I discovered my own answer. Having recabled my MBP with the Apple TV using an Ethernet cable, I went into System Preferences/Sharing and enabled Internet Sharing. From the drop-down menu, I chose Airport (thought it could be any modality in System Preferences/Network) and checked the box for Ethernet. Went back to Airparrot and System Preferences/Sound to make sure Apple TV was picked as target and audio was enabled. Now it mirrors my desktop and audio, via Ethernent cable. All I have to do to switch back to WiFi Apple TV. Works like a charm. Whenever you need a direct link for mirroring, this way is easy and reliable.
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