Airplay peer-to-peer

Me too .. I have spent 3 hours, restarting, turning on/off WiFi to no avail. I thought it was supposed to be a turn it on and go. What is up?

I Was trying to get this going for a friend who has no wifi at home. He has unlimited data plan for his iPhone 5s. The idea was to buy an Apple TV without router and AirPlay comtemt to Apple TV without wifi. The problem is the Apple TV only shows the computer and settings icons when not connected to a network so it seems this scenario is impossible for him. What if he had a router but no internet. Might it work then? The probl

he had in the past was that the phone wouldn't dowballad lte data and simultaneously AirPlay to Apple TV cia wifi. Thoughts??

I took a picture of my apple tv without a network connection. As you can see, I am still able to airplay my u2 album or anything else without a network connection. Your friend doesn't need a router. All he/she needs is a compatible apple tv and an ios 8 device with his Bluetooth and wifi turned on.

I am curious as to whether you were able to play any movies on this connection.

Yes I can even play movies without ios or apple tv being connected to a network. But if I want to airplay youtube videos or whatever I need to connect the apple tv to a network as the mirroring options on a connected ios device won't work.

This is great news. I am curious as to what settings you used. I have been unable to get any consistent response with any of the IOS 8 devices and the ATV 3rd gen (model 1469). Do you have a cell connection to your IOS devices, or are they off an internet connection as well? I have enabled the WiFi, bluetooth, and turned airplay on. Sometimes it picks up, many times it does not. I have tried rebooting and resetting the units. Thanks!

Basically my apple tv is set to it's default settings with one exception: I changed TV resolution from 'auto' to '1080p HD - 60Hz'. That's it. I kept everything the same after the update. Even the time is set to 'cupertino californa' despite me living in the east. I spent about 4-5 hours last night airplaying videos through a peer-to-peer connection without interruption. I don't have a cell connection. I don't have any bluetooth keyboards paired to my apple tv. Airplay is 'on' obviously and you seem to be doing everything right as far as keeping wifi and bluetooth on. So far the only problems I've noticed is when I start toggling the mirror mode on & off so I just avoid it.

I got it to work for about 10 minutes and that was that. I lost the ability to choose Apple TV in the control center. Not sure why it is doing this. Very buggy.

Hi Justjoined,

thanks for letting us know it doesn´t work on youtube as I was testing using that and getting very frustrated. So I tried other apps etc, and it works ok with mirroring. OK then for presentations (obviously what peer to peer was designed for), but I was unable to stream video content for various sources via mirroring or standard Airplay - got two different error messages one saying Apple Tv not connected to internet. Maybe things will improve with subsequent software updates, but for me it back to going via the router!

On a seperate note, with Bluetooth switched on on both units they are both always searching, they don´t discover each other is that correct?

Cheers

Saw this just now, not strictly true then

An Apple spokesperson said in a statement to The Next Web that ‘AppleTV 3,2′ is basically a stealth refresh:

We sometimes make component changes which require an updated model number for regulatory approval.

The component changes we made don’t affect product features and Apple TV customers will continue to have the same great user experience.

Your Mac devices have to be running Yosemite which is not been released yet. See this for a more detailed explanation of how it works.

http://help.apple.com/deployment/ios/#/apd8fc751f59

i did discover that I had problems when the Apple TV and iPhone were both connected to networks (the Apple TV to Ethernet, and iPhone to a different sub-net Wifi). However, when I disconnected from the wifi network, I was able to connect flawlessly.

Sorry I should have been specific. I was using my iPad 4.

I had a long chat with AppleCare today. They escalated the issue up to the engineering team. We went through an extensive list of procedures and there were still issues. I will likely hear something by Wednesday.

Richard that is correct. On a related note, you can have a bluetooth device turned on and connected in the background, but apple tv must be the primary output in control center if you wish to use airplay.

BI'll, did you disconnect the ATV and iPad/iPhone from any networks to see if it works? I found the exact same thing happened when my iPhone was connected to wifi and my ATV was connected to Ethernet. I turned off the wifi, and it worked perfectly. Not ideal, I know, but presumably this is an issue Apple will fix.