BT Home Hub Apple TV
This is written for people with little or no experience of apple tv and Windows.
Symptoms:
Apple TV did not appear in the left hand side of iTunes under the devices menu on my PC. Indeed the devices menu option did not appear in iTunes.
Solution:
1. Update the software on Apple TV (Settings | General | Update software)
2. Perform windows update (Start | All programs | Windows update)
3. Obtain the latest release of iTunes software. Run iTunes. From the iTunes menu select About | Check for updates. I am running version 9.1.1.12.
4. Check that you can view movie trailers from Apple TV. If you can't then you the apple TV has not connected to the BT home hub wireless network. You need to enter the BT home hub wireless key (which is found on the back of the bt home hub) as you password when you set up the network. Check again that you can view Movie trailers. Don't proceed until you can.
5. Enter the BT home hub manager (Start | All Programs | BT Home Hub | Hub manager). Select Advanced. Enter admin as the username and your password to your hub. This is either a password you entered when you first set up the hub or the S/N number printed on the back of the BT Home Hub. Click continue to advanced. Select Application sharing. Select Create a new game or application.
Enter MyAppleTV against Name. Select Manual Entry of Port Maps.
Enter this Information one line at a time:
Protocol | Port range | Translate To ... | Trigger Protocol | Trigger Port
TCP 123 is used to communicate with a network time server.
* TCP port 3689 is used to communicate with iTunes while using the iTunes Library Sharing feature.
* UDP port 5353 is used by Apple TV for automatically finding computers with iTunes on your network using Bonjour.
* TCP port 80 is used for communicating with podcast servers.
* TCP port 80 and 443 are used for basic and secure communications with the iTunes Store via the Internet.
* TCP port 53 is used for regular DNS.
6.
Symptoms:
Apple TV did not appear in the left hand side of iTunes under the devices menu on my PC. Indeed the devices menu option did not appear in iTunes.
Solution:
1. Update the software on Apple TV (Settings | General | Update software)
2. Perform windows update (Start | All programs | Windows update)
3. Obtain the latest release of iTunes software. Run iTunes. From the iTunes menu select About | Check for updates. I am running version 9.1.1.12.
4. Check that you can view movie trailers from Apple TV. If you can't then you the apple TV has not connected to the BT home hub wireless network. You need to enter the BT home hub wireless key (which is found on the back of the bt home hub) as you password when you set up the network. Check again that you can view Movie trailers. Don't proceed until you can.
5. Enter the BT home hub manager (Start | All Programs | BT Home Hub | Hub manager). Select Advanced. Enter admin as the username and your password to your hub. This is either a password you entered when you first set up the hub or the S/N number printed on the back of the BT Home Hub. Click continue to advanced. Select Application sharing. Select Create a new game or application.
Enter MyAppleTV against Name. Select Manual Entry of Port Maps.
Enter this Information one line at a time:
Protocol | Port range | Translate To ... | Trigger Protocol | Trigger Port
TCP 123 is used to communicate with a network time server.
* TCP port 3689 is used to communicate with iTunes while using the iTunes Library Sharing feature.
* UDP port 5353 is used by Apple TV for automatically finding computers with iTunes on your network using Bonjour.
* TCP port 80 is used for communicating with podcast servers.
* TCP port 80 and 443 are used for basic and secure communications with the iTunes Store via the Internet.
* TCP port 53 is used for regular DNS.
6.
PC, Windows XP, Home edition Service Pack 3
