Airplay mirroring says "no devices detected"

Spooky! While typing my comment a minute ago an update message appeared on my TV screen inviting me to update Apple TV. I accepted, it prepared and applied the update and.... still nothing. The box is now running v5.1.1(5433) with good signal strength.

....and just for the record I did a reset of the Apple Tv box and I now have mirroring back.

Still not working properly, each day I have to reset the ATV box to get it working which is a pain. I am going to set the sleep tier to never so that it stays on all the time to see if that cures it, but right now, having done a reset, there is no icon so I cant mirror to my TV. What a waste of money.

Reset the AppleTV back to factory defaults and reconnect it to your WIFI. Then without messing with ANYTHING else, see if it's available on your Mac. Make sure on your Mac that you have AirPlay Mirroring controls set to show on the toolbar. You will get an icon that ungreys when the ATV is seen on the same WIFI network.

In case people don't know, you can also turn AirPlay on and off via the settings on the AppleTV unit itself. So check that first before trying the more tedious fixes.

I have had my apple tv for a couple of months now and it has worked with airplay so I can watch HBO GO on it. Today it prompted me of an Apple TV update. I did the update and I can not get my airplay mirroring to work!!!!

I have a 3rd Gen Apple TV and a macbook air bought in Sept of 2012. We used airplay mirroring just fine until I updated the apple tv last week to 5.2. Now it says it's on but it's not showing up on computer. Can't get it to work. I've cycled power on everything but still no go.

I have had the same issue. It has to be a bug mountain lion. also, rebooting your router will most likely not help you. The devices do need to go to Apples servers for 'push notifications' for some functions. If you are having the same issue as me where Airplay on your computer appears and then dissapears then that means that it has worked and the problem is defintely not your router or ISP. Does anybody know how to reset or refresh the Airplay feature in OSX?? The frustrating bit to me is that there is no recourse when the airplay icon does not appear.

Your problem is most likely that the protocol used to advertise that AppleTV is available on your network isn't working. The only way you can prove that it's an issue localized to your laptop is if your iPhone was able to see the AppleTV and mirror its display to it on the same network that the laptop is currently not able to see it on.

I was using Airplay successfully on iPad and MacBook Pro until today when it suddenly stopped working today. The symptom was the same as the issue on this thread. No airplay button on either device.

Reset of all devices did not work. The Display window in System Preferences showed "No devices available" and were greyed out.

Rebooting the router resolved the issue. The button is now available on all devices.

Had the same problem as many of the other posters, no communication from apple TV to computers and IO devices, even though apple TV was working (no icon in main menu bar - mirror option greyed out - "no Devices Available").

Disconnected the Modem and turned off the wifi on my lap tops and ipad and started everthing up again, that reset everything and all is good again.

Thanks for the thread !🙂

Found this thread in trying to fix the same problem that others were having with Macbook Pro and iOS devices not recognizing my Apple TV. Tried turning airplay off and on using the settings in Apple TV, which occasionally worked until the ATV went to sleep and then the connection dropped. I reset my wireless extender that was providing network access and my ATV. It solved the problem.

Why do people always think it's a network problem. We all know apple does not know how to cross layer three networks so if your not at home you will have problems connecting your apple devices. The fact remains that eve if you are on the same layer three network as the apple TV your MAC will have intermittent problems connected to other apple devise.

This is an APPLE problem, plain and simple.. They know about it but they don't care enough to do anything because people are confused about the problem so they think it's a network problem... It's not!

Apple is not a networking company, they are a consumer electronics company and thus they know nothing about the network or how to make devices talk to each other reliably.

You won’t see any resolution to these problems any time soon…

Happy Tinkering!

I had a similar problem, MacBookAir mid-2011 and Gen 3 AppleTV. I upgraded to the latest (just released) AppleTV Version 6.0 software and retarted the MacBookAir. Now it works!

In my experience to date, Apple updates are downgrades that screw up your settings. Go to settings on the Apple TV device with that crappy remote, make sure Airplay is 'on', then when you go to settings on your computer, under 'Displays', it should detect the Airplay device. Any update will probably delete your choice, so you'll have to do it again.

NO MORE downgrade UPDATES please !!!