Resolution Found! - Home Sharing/AirPlay failure with Apple TV

I couldn't find anything related to IGMP on my Netgear router, but it did get me to try disabling the UPNP setting I had in the router. Interestingly it had about a hundred entries in the "portmap" table that were cleared. As soon as I did that I was able to get home sharing to show up on my apple TV, my iPad remote started working, the iDevices I connect to iTunes popped up (they had been intermittently disappearing) and even my Squeezebox controller started working.

This had all been working in the past, so blame IO6 in some form (whether the most recent iTunes update) for causing this. Yet to figure out if I lose any functionality from not having UPNP enabled.

God bless you, sir!

Pulling my hair out for a bit on this one, and so far, this did the trick!

Thanks!!

I'm glad it works for some, but I don't think the issue lyes with UPNP.

If that was the case, shoudn't everything accessing the iTunes library not be working?

I can access iTunes library (on my iMac) with Apple TV3 and Macbook Pro, but not with the iPad and iPhone.

Things started going bad after IO6 update, and that's the only thing I believe all of us have in common. I suspect that unless that will get fixed (if ever), shared libraries will be randomly working, at best.

Vignus

Big Worm, you are the bomb! I have been killing myself trying to get this home sharing working finally you provided my solution! I have verizon fios and I had to disabled my IGMP on my Verizon actiontec router and YES!

All hail BigWorm76. Instant success.

Weel now all of a sudden it doesn't work anymore....ugh!

Thank You BigWorm76. I have been trying to figure out what happened for months now. Apple support was no help. I now have sharing working again. Thanks again!

I also have Verizon FiOS with an Actiontec router. Message was edited by: BPOdom

i'm seriously getting peeved at this...

Depending on the time of day, general cloudiness, and if Venus is in the house of Scorpio, Home Sharing may decide to work.

Seriously, I was literally sitting doing nothing, and it disappeared from the iPad. Two hours later, after touching NOTHING, it was back.

Now it's gone again!

THANK YOU!!!!!!

WAYDAGO, Bigwom76! I did the IGMP tweak and my Apple TV / Home Sharing is greatly improved. HOWEVER, thus far, I still have to restart my Apple TV and sign out / sign in to Home Sharing within iTunes now and then anyway. I'll keep trying.

I spoke with the Apple TV tech regarding this Home Sharing "hiccup" and....EUREKA.....all aspects of Home Sharing are working as designed. Remove your current iTunes and related programs, Restart, and then reinstall iTunes 10.7. Follow the detailed instructions:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923?viewlocale=en_US

Good luck to all!!

I don't get it, Markomann,

If everything is worlking as designed, why should someone uninstall iTunes and the re-install it? Is that part of the design? Also, what are the "related programs"?

Can you please be more specific?

Vignus

Vignus,

The "related Apple programs" are listed witin the proceedural link:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923?viewlocale=en_US

Hoep for the best!

*bows* JFC, thank you! I was having problems with Home Sharing between my PC and laptop. I knew it was something with the router, but I wasn't sure what. As soon as I saw Verizon FiOS, I knew this was gonna work. Thanks so much!

I've been having strange conductivity issues between my iMac24HD running 10.6 and my iOS 5.x iPad2 along with my iPhone 3GS for 6 mos, and my ATV2.

I've searched the Community Forums for solutions and found references to Port Forwarding Ports 5353 3689 & 123. I've done that and the best I been able to achive is:

• ATV2 works, but some times you have RESET it in order find your home share library again.
• iPhone couldn't find Home Share at all.
• iPad2 would Home Share, but about 10min into anything you were watching, and the controls (you normally find to use when touching the screen) would not be available, the Video's would play find, and when the video was done you had to kill the iPad Video App restart the App in order to watch something else.

When iOS 6 was released I updated my iPad2, iPhone, along with the normal iTunes updates. I was hoping this could fix those issues as nothing seemed to work so far, I was starting to think my iMac was the problem.

I decided to make the jump to Mountian Lion 10.8, that puts everything on the same playing field. This only MADE THINGS WORSE.

I've been searching for a week, for a solution that I have not yet attempted. Then I decided to search the forums for (Home Share, Resolutions), and found your post. It seems to work.

I have a Dlink DIR-655 router connected to my Comcast Cable modem.

IGMP was not enabled, but UPnP was, so I disabled it.

Upon the reboot of the Dlink, I checked my iPhone to see if Home Sharing would be available, Bingo 🙂 it was, I watched a TV show to validate the functionality.

iPad2 was my next test, Home Share was found, and I played a few episodes of the Big Bang Theroy, in fact I was able to watch two with out having to restart the Video App.

ATV2 has not been tested yet, but I'll do that later.

The real test will take place when I get home tonight and see if Home Sharing is found and working on all my Apple devices.

If the problem returns, I'll update my post, but for now it looks to be working, it's been now 8 hours since the router reboot.

Please pardon any typos, my brain writes much faster then my fingers can transfer it to text on screen. (baud rate mis-match)