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Q: ATV 3 Version 7.0 Home Sharing not woking with Yosemite and  iTunes 12

Home Sharing from my Apple TV 3 (A1469) with software 7.0 is not working from the library on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) with OS X Yosemite 10.10, Airplay still works but its annoying to have to choose a Song/Movie/TV show from my MBP and then Airplay it to the ATV. Much preferred how well Home Sharing worked.

 

- I have both devices signed in to the same Apple ID.

- Have tired turning Home Sharing off and on

- Have restored the Apple TV

 

Using all devices on the same 5G wifi network (Huawei HG659b)

 

Most annoying thing is it was working perfectly before iTunes 12 was released.

Has anyone else discovered this problem? Does Apple or anyone have a fix?

 

Please HELP!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Yosemite 10.10

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 5:06 PM

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Q: ATV 3 Version 7.0 Home Sharing not woking with Yosemite and  iTunes 12

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  • by artcev40,

    artcev40 artcev40 Oct 26, 2014 6:41 AM in response to zielidom
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    Oct 26, 2014 6:41 AM in response to zielidom

    Yes I've tried all that too and nothing worked, then I came up with a way around it until Apple get their fingers out and put it right. I decided to put the film I want to watch tonight on my iPad and air play it through that. So first I played a music video from my iPad onto ATV and that worked, unbelievably I turned that off and noticed that my films were all listed from my Mac as they should be. I tried to play one and it works fine, then I noticed that my McAfee was all turned off for some reason. So I don't know as I haven't tried turning McAfee back on yet, but maybe it was a firewall stopping it from working.

    Either way we shouldn't have to go through all this to get it working.

    When I decide to put my McAfee back on I'll then see if it still works ......... but not until I've used ATV tonight.

  • by Alain Joaris,

    Alain Joaris Alain Joaris Oct 26, 2014 9:48 AM in response to zielidom
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    Oct 26, 2014 9:48 AM in response to zielidom

    Bit you didn't change the computer name. i was as frustrated as you are, but this made the trick. Indeed with all other solutions ATV couldn't conect to my iTunes Library even when changing its name.

  • by wantnickname,

    wantnickname wantnickname Oct 26, 2014 12:15 PM in response to Alain Joaris
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    Oct 26, 2014 12:15 PM in response to Alain Joaris

    It´s strange cause works fine here!!!!  I've just  "Turn on the Home Sharing" in iTunes

  • by artcev40,

    artcev40 artcev40 Oct 27, 2014 10:11 AM in response to wantnickname
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    Oct 27, 2014 10:11 AM in response to wantnickname

    Hello all, at last I have now found a fix that works for me, so all you people out there who can't get Apple TV to work maybe this will work for you.

    Go to your security software, (mine is McAfee) and in preferences turn OFF your firewall, thats all I did to make it work. So now whenever I want to use ATV

    via my Mac I turn off my firewall.

    I guess there's a way off just changing your firewall settings to allow ATV usage but I'm not that clever to know what it is.

    Good Luck !!

  • by SoCalFlyboy,

    SoCalFlyboy SoCalFlyboy Nov 1, 2014 3:23 AM in response to OATE5Y
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    Nov 1, 2014 3:23 AM in response to OATE5Y

    Changing my computer name worked like a charm for me, thanks for the tip!

  • by dirk_from_werne,

    dirk_from_werne dirk_from_werne Nov 2, 2014 1:55 AM in response to SoCalFlyboy
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    Nov 2, 2014 1:55 AM in response to SoCalFlyboy

    The idea of changing the computer name worked only partly. I had to switch the ethernet connection off and on again to really push the name into the network.

    then everything worked fine.

    I Switched then back to the old name...

  • by David Schlesinger2,

    David Schlesinger2 David Schlesinger2 Nov 2, 2014 6:11 AM in response to vants
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    Nov 2, 2014 6:11 AM in response to vants

    Thanks for this. Works -- have to turn off itunes and turn it on again after changing the name. I only wish I'd seen this three hours ago! Many thanks for discovering and sharing

  • by kereth,

    kereth kereth Nov 5, 2014 7:52 PM in response to vants
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    Nov 5, 2014 7:52 PM in response to vants

    THANK YOU JESUS!!! You are the best dude!

  • by dotnetbrett,

    dotnetbrett dotnetbrett Nov 6, 2014 1:32 AM in response to OATE5Y
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    Nov 6, 2014 1:32 AM in response to OATE5Y

    First, I setup iTunes sharing in preferences in iTunes, and like so many others, of course it did not work. I then signed out of iTunes on all of my devices and signed back in with no success. I reset my ATV, still with the same issue. I Had some time on my hands, so I made an install USB and blew away the partitions and did a CLEAN install of Yosemite and signed into iTunes using Preferences, Sharing, the usual way. I also renamed my machine in the sharing tab in System Preferences. When I went to Mavericks, the same exact thing happened and a clean install fixed it, but this was not the case with Yosemite. I searched the Apple KB and found this guys simple fix and it worked like a champ right away.

     

    "Home sharing not working with ATV 3, Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2012. ATV's software is the latest and MBP is running Yosemite."

     

    Activated Home-sharing via Preferences in iTunes and ATV can't find it.

    Tried meanspa's solution and it worked.

     

    To fix this, on your Mac's iTunes turn on Home-sharing via File > Home Sharing > Turn On Home Sharing.

    After doing this, my computer's iTunes library popped up in ATV

  • by dotnetbrett,

    dotnetbrett dotnetbrett Nov 6, 2014 1:47 AM in response to vants
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    Nov 6, 2014 1:47 AM in response to vants

    Vants, I renamed my machine and had no joy, but I did find this from some other post and the combination of YOUR and someone else's  worked:

    First, I setup iTunes sharing in preferences in iTunes, and like so many others, of course it did not work. I then signed out of iTunes on all of my devices and signed back in with no success. I reset my ATV, still with the same issue. I Had some time on my hands, so I made an install USB and blew away the partitions and did a CLEAN install of Yosemite and signed into iTunes using Preferences, Sharing, the usual way. I also renamed my machine in the sharing tab in System Preferences. When I went to Mavericks, the same exact thing happened and a clean install fixed it, but this was not the case with Yosemite. I searched the Apple KB and found this guys simple fix and it worked like a champ right away.

     

    "Home sharing not working with ATV 3, Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2012. ATV's software is the latest and MBP is running Yosemite."

     

    Activated Home-sharing via Preferences in iTunes and ATV can't find it.

    Tried meanspa's solution and it worked.

     

    To fix this, on your Mac's iTunes turn on Home-sharing via File > Home Sharing > Turn On Home Sharing.

    After doing this, my computer's iTunes library popped up in ATV


    **Under Preferences and Sharing in iTunes, It was showing that I was sharing my media, but when I went to File > Home Sharing > Turn on Home Sharing (in iTunes), I was not even signed into Home Sharing. Go Figure!? I do not know if it was the renaming of my PC AND signing in through the File menu that did it, but I can now see my media on all of my devices.**

  • by questna,

    questna questna Nov 7, 2014 12:11 AM in response to vants
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    Nov 7, 2014 12:11 AM in response to vants
    1. it took me a while to find this answer, thank you J. i will try it as soon as i go back home. Just to clear something up.

    My situation is the following: As soon as I turn on the Apple TV to watch something from the stuff that I got on the HDD after 10 minutes or so the connection drops and I got no internet at all. As soon as I restart the TP-link everything works as usual until I turn on the Apple TV to watch something from my library. Most of the cases it pops that error to connect and enable home sharing on my devices

    do you think that my issue is gonna be resolved with this method that you suggest? In order to fix it I am seriously thinking of buying a new wifi router, but again I got no evidence that the TP-link causes the problem. The whole think drives me crazy lately.

     

     

    Thanks in advance

  • by dotnetbrett,

    dotnetbrett dotnetbrett Nov 7, 2014 5:14 AM in response to questna
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    Nov 7, 2014 5:14 AM in response to questna

    I bought the Wireless Airport Extreme when it went wireless "C" I miss the logs associated with smarter routers, but I can always run Wireshark if I need some good captures. I don't know if the fix will hold. but it has for me. Write back and Ill let you know down the road. I installed Onyx and Maintenance programs to clean things up after Yosemite and they seem to help with the program glitches. It might help with you.

  • by dotnetbrett,

    dotnetbrett dotnetbrett Nov 7, 2014 5:17 AM in response to questna
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    Nov 7, 2014 5:17 AM in response to questna

    One thing I also have done on my network for years. I set address reservations for all of my hardware by MAC address on my router. I don't know if this ALSO played a role in helping with this issue or not.

  • by dotnetbrett,

    dotnetbrett dotnetbrett Nov 7, 2014 5:19 AM in response to artcev40
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    Nov 7, 2014 5:19 AM in response to artcev40

    Not running a Firewall, not good. You should go back into it and adjust it for apple protocols.

  • by SusanInNeedof Help,

    SusanInNeedof Help SusanInNeedof Help Nov 7, 2014 1:50 PM in response to vants
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    Nov 7, 2014 1:50 PM in response to vants

    This worked!!!  Thank you so much.  I have blown countless hours trying everything that I thought made sense.  But this seemingly irrelevant thing fixed it immediately.  I don't being to understand why but I am eternally grateful! 

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