ATV 3 Version 7.0 Home Sharing not woking with Yosemite and iTunes 12

I was in the same case HS was not woking since 2 months. It is why I posted a reply when I discover that my Apple TV home share was back online After my cleanup. If we someone can find a workaround for this bug then it will help many people.

Note that I tried to correct by following the troubleshooting from Apple before. I updated my airport extreme router, modified my network parameter and modified my firewall settings. Also modifed to allow my apple TV to wake my macbook. This not worked at all.

WIth my experience with Itunes, I suspect the HS have more than 1 problem ( by example I had dupplicate libraries at one point and this problem was gone at some point in Yosemite )

Hope they will be fix soon because I was near to defenestrate my apple TV and go buy a box from a competitor.... I guess my apple tv was afraid of me at this point and begin to work again.

DB

Okay, now it works for me, too.

As mentioned above, I made a clean install of Yosemite and ATV, but it didn't help. Then I restored my time capsule, but nothing changed: HS still did not work.

I finally tried another clean install of Yosemity, and now HS is working as it should.

Sounds like we could be dealing with a fix in the final golden master release. As a beta tester we didn't get the final release as it was deemed close to the ver 3 DP GM that it wouldn't make a difference. When I get home I will also try a fresh install of the latest Build. Fingers crossed

Meanspa's solution worked for me. Reason is that you need to enter your AppleID / password and don't have the opportunity through Preferences. I suppose Preferences could be used later to disable Home Sharing, should you want to do something.

In any case, use File, Home Sharing to turn off the feature and then reenable it. You should be asked for your AppleID and password. After that you should be good to go.

Turning on/off Home Sharing in iTunes alone didn't work for me. What eventually worked: (not sure how much was necessary or unnecessary, but tried a few things based on the posts above)

-On Mac:

--Turned off Home Sharing in iTunes (File -> Home Sharing)

--Changed Library Name in iTunes (in Preferences)

-On AppleTV:

--Turn Home Sharing Off (Setting -> Computers)

--Turn Home Sharing On

-On Mac:

--Turn on Home Sharing (File -> Home Sharing)

Yep, I'm at an absolute loss as to how to fix this. Both my ATV 3's with software 7.0 now refuse to work with home sharing since installing Yosemite yesterday. I'm running a Late 2012 21.5" iMac and everything was working properly. What is odd is that I can still Airplay from my Mac to my ATV's. Anyone? Please?

Tried this, I had a glimmer of hope thinking it might be something silly like this. For some reason, the ATV can tell I've changed the name of my library (as it tells me it can't connect to the library, using its new name). This is driving me spare!

I don't think that is has something to do with the itunes library, tried a completely new one and it did not help. It it has nothing to do with the Beta-Software either, as I never had the Beta-Yosemity running on my iMax 21,5 (Mid 2011).

I have no clue what causes the problem with HS, nor what solves it. I can just say, that after restoring/clean-installing everything (Yosemite, ATV and time capsule) at least twice, HS suddenly worked again with my original itunes library.

Zineer's trick worked for me too, thank you so much!

I turned Home Sharing off from both devices first, changed the name of my iTunes Library, restarted Home Sharing on both devices (first on my iMac, don't know if this makes a difference) and voila! Everything's back to working order.

Ok people.

I Seem to have fixed it. You aren't gonna like it as it isn't really an ideal fix if you have alit installed.

I Partitioned my drive for a new 50GB pattrition. I then installed OS X Yosemite From my current instal to the new disk.

VIola it works!

OATESY, the second of my "clean" installs of Yosemity indeed was succesful. After the Yosemite-Download you can use Dismaker X to copy the Yosemite-Installer on a SD-card. Then change the start-up drive to your sd-card and reboot. And I deleted the hard disk from the Yosemity-installer before the re-install the os - so keep a backup of all your data on an external drive.

I am just about to migrate all my files and apps. Will let you know if doing this affects the benefit of a fresh install And breaks it again.