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

Thanks SOOOOO much! I was going crazy! My baby can now watch her cartoons uninterrupted! 🙂

Still no word on here about this problem from Apple and still no fix. DO YOU READ THESE THREADS APPLE?!?!

DO YOU CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO HELP PAY YOUR SALARIES??

I tried all of the other solutions without success. Here's what worked for me on both my ATV3 and ATV2.

1. On your ATV, go to Settings > Computers > Turn OFF Home Sharing
2. Confirm that you want to turn it off
3. Now turn it back on by selecting Turn ON Home Sharing
4. When prompted whether to use your existing Home Sharing account, select "No, use a different Apple ID"
5. Keep your existing Apple ID by clicking Submit (your existing Apple ID is populated by default)
6. Enter your Apple ID password

That's it! Hope this works for those that didn't find success with the other solutions.

I know this is already marked as "answered", but the answer didn't help my problem. I provide the following, because it was my solution.

I had to troubleshoot this problem too, and was at a loss because the Preferences dialog for Home Sharing doesn't have you sign in to Home Sharing using your AppleID. The trick is to click on the upper left icon (half gray, half white), then select "Library" and then "Turn On Home Sharing" at which point it will prompt you to sign in with your AppleID. Once you do this, your library should show up wherever you are trying to access it. It took me 2 days to figure this out because my PC library wouldn't show up on my AppleTV even though I had Sharing enabled in the Preferences dialog. Turns out it has to be enabled in the Preferences, but then turned on in this difficult to find menu item.

Hope this helps.

Hi!

On iTunes go to File

-Activate home sharing

Done!

Thanks for this working solution. Everything else in the discussion failed for me.

Yes I think thats the first thing everyone has done

NOT Done!

And besides all these discussions we shouldn't have to do anything to make something work that should work anyway.

None of the above have worked for me.

Thank-you Apple for your concern ...... NOT

I tried everything you write guys .... nothing works form me. My kids are crying, I going crazy.

How is that possible with the Apple product, and why they doesn't resolved a problem?

Even a clean install of Yosemite did not help?

What do you mean CLEAN INSTALL ? I installed Yosemite 3 or 4 days ago with update of iTunes. Until Apple TV doesn't find my library.

But ATV connect with MacBook because he have seen that i changed Library name and i can play the movie on Itunes and share it on Apple tv.I can also buy the movie, so WIFI is ok. Very very strange...

You did an update/upgrade - not a clean install. A clean install (try "OS X clean install" on google - you'll find plenty of information) means thoroughly backing up all your data (preferably not using time machine) testing your backup, erasing your hard disk drive and than installing OS X and all other software from the scratch before restoring the user data from your backup.

This is not fun, takes some hours, but in my case finally solved my problems.

And, YES, it felt again like in old times with Win95 ;-)

I unrstand. Yes, it's not funny, and i did it 4 moths ago for resolving an other problem. It's horrible and i donated want to do this for make working ATV. It's a job of APPLE to make that works normally. Waiting for Update of iTunes or Apple TV 😟((

Sorry, i'm Portuguese and the translation wasn't correct

Try this:

On iTunes go to File

- Select Home Sharing

- Then Turn on Home Sharing

It's works on my Mac Mini mid 2011 and on my AppleTv 3Gen.

PS: On Mac all is easy, don't complicate

I Tried all this : off/on home sharing on ATV and Mac, new library name, i' ve restored Apple TV, verified ID....Nothink works

Yes I've tried all that too and nothing worked, then I came up with a way around it until Apple get their fingers out and put it right. I decided to put the film I want to watch tonight on my iPad and air play it through that. So first I played a music video from my iPad onto ATV and that worked, unbelievably I turned that off and noticed that my films were all listed from my Mac as they should be. I tried to play one and it works fine, then I noticed that my McAfee was all turned off for some reason. So I don't know as I haven't tried turning McAfee back on yet, but maybe it was a firewall stopping it from working.

Either way we shouldn't have to go through all this to get it working.

When I decide to put my McAfee back on I'll then see if it still works ......... but not until I've used ATV tonight.