AirPlay stops working when iPad screen blanks

No luck on my end either. iPad is 5.0.1. Nothing for AppleTV.

Just re-checked my Apple TV firmware, and found it's back to 4.4.3 and the issue is happening again!

I'm quite sure just a few hours ago the Apple TV firmware saids 5.0.1(9443), and it fixes the issues in this thread!

This is weired.

Good thing is that it's quite promising next Apple TV firmware update will fix this bug, however, the bad thing - is Apple able to upgrade/downgrade or send patches to our system without any notification?

I just bought an Apple TV 2. When using Airplay with my iPad 2, the iPad locks after 2 minutes (as I set it) even if I m playing a movie on my TV using Airplay. Two way to fix this:

1) set your iPad Auto Lock to "never". This will likley deplete your iPad battery.

2) hook your iPad to a power supply !

No problem since I used the second option.

yes, but that is such a silly workaround for a cool feature that already worked! anyone fixed this yet??

sure is disappointing that it used to work . just retread this thread. my apple tv just updated a few weeks ago to 4.4.4 it says that is the latest and the problem still exixts. do y'all think it's the tv or the iOS 5 ? I lean towards ios . and as I said above 5.01 didn't fix it

I'd agree with this being app specific. Running BBC iPlayer app on my iPhone and air-playing to Apple TV2 works fine, but whilst using the 4oD app once the iPhone locks airplay stops with it.

Based on this, I'd say it's definitely app specific. Possibly e-mail the app creator or post reviews via iTunes?

Looks like the ios5 update caused an app specific problem. I can confirm that TED Safari BBC iplayer and AirVideo do not drop airplay when multitasking or when ipad/iphone/ipod go to sleep.

Hopefully Apple can restore whatever caused most apps to break their airplay functionality. Or maybe it will be up to app developers to fix it themselves.

I started a new thread to list the apps that do work properly as we find them. Hopefully it gets updated as this problem gets more attention from frustrated AppleTv users.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3690923

thanks Chris i'll post there as well. my experience is as chris said. It IS app specific. but the problem only manifested itself after ios 5.

can anyone point me to a thread that discusses why the Apple TV requires that you turn on the video monitor at least initially before audio will stream? you can turn it off as soon as the audio starts but it is a pain if your receiver is already on.? thx

This issue is that starting with iOS 5, apps are put to the background when the device goes to sleep (even if your app was the forground app!!!).

So the solution is to configure your app as one that can play audio in the background (works for video too).

First you must add this to your info.plist:

Here is a very simple view controller that works with AirPlay when your app is put to sleep:

BMTViewController.h:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>

#import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h>

@interface BMTViewController : MPMoviePlayerViewController

{

}

@end

BMTViewController.m:

#import "BMTViewController.h"

@implementation BMTViewController

#pragma mark - View lifecycle

- (void)viewDidLoad

{

[superviewDidLoad];

self.moviePlayer.allowsAirPlay = YES;

[[AVAudioSessionsharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlaybackerror:nil];

[[AVAudioSessionsharedInstance] setActive: YESerror: nil];

[self.moviePlayerprepareToPlay];

}

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {

[super viewDidAppear:animated];

[[UIApplicationsharedApplication] beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];

[selfbecomeFirstResponder];

}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {

[super viewWillDisappear:animated];

//End recieving events

[[UIApplicationsharedApplication] endReceivingRemoteControlEvents];

[selfresignFirstResponder];

}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation

{

returnYES;

}

//Make sure we can recieve remote control events

- (BOOL)canBecomeFirstResponder {

returnYES;

}

- (void)remoteControlReceivedWithEvent:(UIEvent *)event {

//if it is a remote control event handle it correctly

if (event.type == UIEventTypeRemoteControl) {

if (event.subtype == UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlPlay) {

[self.moviePlayer play];

} elseif (event.subtype == UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlPause) {

[self.moviePlayer pause];

} elseif (event.subtype == UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlTogglePlayPause) {

if(self.moviePlayer.playbackState == MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying)

[self.moviePlayerplay];

else

[self.moviePlayerpause];

}

}

}

@end

Then just instantiate your view controller from your app delegate or however you like. Here's how I'm doing it in this demo app:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions

{

self.window = [[UIWindowalloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreenmainScreen] bounds]];

// Override point for customization after application launch.

NSURL* movieURL = [NSURLURLWithString:@"http://www.yourmovieurl"];

self.viewController = [[BMTViewControlleralloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];

self.window.rootViewController = self.viewController;

[self.windowmakeKeyAndVisible];

returnYES;

}

Hope this helps everyone struggling with this issue. There is still one issue that many of you may encounter. NSTimers are suspended when the device goes to sleep, even though the movie is still playing in AirPlay. It isn't the end of the world, but I track progress of movie playback and report it back to a server periodically and I'm unable to accomplish this task with the NSTimers suspended.....sigh.

Craig

Huh? For whom is this post intended? That's all jibberish to me.

Hmm new iOS update 5.1.1 just came out today, which addresses bugs with AirPlay. So maybe Apple fixed it??

"Fixes bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances"

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/07/apple-releases-ios-5-1-1-with-hdr-airplay-an d-safari-syncing-bug-fixes/

I'll be able to check later tonight and test it out with my AppleTV. Unless someone can give it a try sooner.

thx post here if it worked. I'm trying to learn basic programming in ios but the post above was way over my head so far