AirPlay discovery over Bluetooth in AppleTV 6.1?

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Ben Schmidt Author

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AirPlay discovery over Bluetooth in AppleTV 6.1?

Has anyone got AirPlay discovery over Bluetooth, supposedly added to, AppleTV 6.1, working?

Does it requires an iPhone 5 and/or an AppleTV (3rd generation)?

I'm using an iPhone 4s with iOS 7.1 and an Apple TV (2nd gen) with 6.1:

• AirPlay works fine if I put these two devices on the same Wi-Fi network

But if I switch them to different networks (which are still IP connected though), the Airplay button does not get appear on my iPhone.

• Bluetooth is enabled on both the iPhone and Apple TV 2.

Several sites report AirPlay discovery over Bluetooth working between iOS 7.1 and AppleTV 6.1:

• http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tv/news/apple-tv-61-update-brings-airplay-security-optio n-discovery-over-bluetooth-and-more-494249

• http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1715142

• http://www.iclarified.com/38998/you-can-now-airplay-to-the-apple-tv-in-environme nts-where-bonjour-is-blocked

• https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=9969

Posted on Mar 11, 2014 6:05 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 13, 2014 6:01 AM in response to Ben Schmidt

I am having the same issue with an Apple TV 2nd Generation device here at our school. An answer would be greatly appreciated!

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Mar 13, 2014 7:03 AM in response to Ben Schmidt

The devices need to be on the same network for AirPlay Mirroring, the Bluetooth Discovery just assists with finding the Apple TV. You cannot do AirPlay Mirroring directly over Bluetooth, with the devices on seperate networks.

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Ben Schmidt Author

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Mar 13, 2014 7:48 AM in response to Saito_Chikara

Saito,

• AirPlay mirroring works fine for me when both devices, AppleTV & iOS device, are on the same wireless network.

• We are not trying to do AirPlay mirroring over Bluetooth.

But my institutional network blocks the multicats used by the Bonjour protocol to disocver AirPlay receivers. To use AirPlay here, I must therefor set up an ad-hoc WiFI network and connect both the AppleTV and the iOS device to this network, for the Bonjour protocol to be successful and the AirPlay link to be displayed on the iOS device.

The links I provided suggested that with iOS 7.1 and AppleTV 6.1, one could use bluetooth for discovery of the AirPlay receiver (and hence it's IP address.) The actual AirPlay session would then routed from your iOS device to the IP address of the AppleTV. Bluetooth would not be used for the AirPlay traffic, just for the Bonjour discovery phase.

However, I, like Randall G. Black - TIS, was unable to discover my AppleTV (2nd generation) over Bluetooth. I, like Randall G. Black - TIS, wonder if AirPlay-discovery-over-Bluetooth, in addition to requiring iOS 7.1 and AppleTV 6.1, may have other requirements? Perhaps it only works with the AppleTV (3rd generation)?