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

Bit you didn't change the computer name. i was as frustrated as you are, but this made the trick. Indeed with all other solutions ATV couldn't conect to my iTunes Library even when changing its name.

It´s strange cause works fine here!!!! I've just "Turn on the Home Sharing" in iTunes

Hello all, at last I have now found a fix that works for me, so all you people out there who can't get Apple TV to work maybe this will work for you.

Go to your security software, (mine is McAfee) and in preferences turn OFF your firewall, thats all I did to make it work. So now whenever I want to use ATV

via my Mac I turn off my firewall.

I guess there's a way off just changing your firewall settings to allow ATV usage but I'm not that clever to know what it is.

Good Luck !!

Changing my computer name worked like a charm for me, thanks for the tip!

The idea of changing the computer name worked only partly. I had to switch the ethernet connection off and on again to really push the name into the network.

then everything worked fine.

I Switched then back to the old name...

Thanks for this. Works -- have to turn off itunes and turn it on again after changing the name. I only wish I'd seen this three hours ago! Many thanks for discovering and sharing

THANK YOU JESUS!!! You are the best dude!

First, I setup iTunes sharing in preferences in iTunes, and like so many others, of course it did not work. I then signed out of iTunes on all of my devices and signed back in with no success. I reset my ATV, still with the same issue. I Had some time on my hands, so I made an install USB and blew away the partitions and did a CLEAN install of Yosemite and signed into iTunes using Preferences, Sharing, the usual way. I also renamed my machine in the sharing tab in System Preferences. When I went to Mavericks, the same exact thing happened and a clean install fixed it, but this was not the case with Yosemite. I searched the Apple KB and found this guys simple fix and it worked like a champ right away.

"Home sharing not working with ATV 3, Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2012. ATV's software is the latest and MBP is running Yosemite."

Activated Home-sharing via Preferences in iTunes and ATV can't find it.

Tried meanspa's solution and it worked.

To fix this, on your Mac's iTunes turn on Home-sharing via File > Home Sharing > Turn On Home Sharing.

After doing this, my computer's iTunes library popped up in ATV

Vants, I renamed my machine and had no joy, but I did find this from some other post and the combination of YOUR and someone else's worked:

First, I setup iTunes sharing in preferences in iTunes, and like so many others, of course it did not work. I then signed out of iTunes on all of my devices and signed back in with no success. I reset my ATV, still with the same issue. I Had some time on my hands, so I made an install USB and blew away the partitions and did a CLEAN install of Yosemite and signed into iTunes using Preferences, Sharing, the usual way. I also renamed my machine in the sharing tab in System Preferences. When I went to Mavericks, the same exact thing happened and a clean install fixed it, but this was not the case with Yosemite. I searched the Apple KB and found this guys simple fix and it worked like a champ right away.

"Home sharing not working with ATV 3, Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2012. ATV's software is the latest and MBP is running Yosemite."

Activated Home-sharing via Preferences in iTunes and ATV can't find it.

Tried meanspa's solution and it worked.

To fix this, on your Mac's iTunes turn on Home-sharing via File > Home Sharing > Turn On Home Sharing.

After doing this, my computer's iTunes library popped up in ATV

**Under Preferences and Sharing in iTunes, It was showing that I was sharing my media, but when I went to File > Home Sharing > Turn on Home Sharing (in iTunes), I was not even signed into Home Sharing. Go Figure!? I do not know if it was the renaming of my PC AND signing in through the File menu that did it, but I can now see my media on all of my devices.**

it took me a while to find this answer, thank you J. i will try it as soon as i go back home. Just to clear something up.

My situation is the following: As soon as I turn on the Apple TV to watch something from the stuff that I got on the HDD after 10 minutes or so the connection drops and I got no internet at all. As soon as I restart the TP-link everything works as usual until I turn on the Apple TV to watch something from my library. Most of the cases it pops that error to connect and enable home sharing on my devices

do you think that my issue is gonna be resolved with this method that you suggest? In order to fix it I am seriously thinking of buying a new wifi router, but again I got no evidence that the TP-link causes the problem. The whole think drives me crazy lately.

Thanks in advance

I bought the Wireless Airport Extreme when it went wireless "C" I miss the logs associated with smarter routers, but I can always run Wireshark if I need some good captures. 🙂 I don't know if the fix will hold. but it has for me. Write back and Ill let you know down the road. I installed Onyx and Maintenance programs to clean things up after Yosemite and they seem to help with the program glitches. It might help with you.

One thing I also have done on my network for years. I set address reservations for all of my hardware by MAC address on my router. I don't know if this ALSO played a role in helping with this issue or not.

Not running a Firewall, not good. You should go back into it and adjust it for apple protocols.

This worked!!! Thank you so much. I have blown countless hours trying everything that I thought made sense. But this seemingly irrelevant thing fixed it immediately. I don't being to understand why but I am eternally grateful!

I was also struggling with Home sharing actually crashing iTunes 12 (on the "receiving" computer) whenever I tried to access the iTunes Library on a different computer. What would up being the problem is in iTunes there are actually two different ways to share files on your network, Home Sharing and the older "Share my Library on my network" under iTunes >> Preferences >> Sharing. It appears these two methods cannot both be active at the same time. I had to:

1) TURN OFF the iTunes >> Preferences >> Sharing >> "Share my Library on my network" on all my computers

2) TURN ON Home Sharing through File >> Home Sharing >> "Turn on Home sharing" on all my computers

You would think that if these were incompatible that turning one one would automatically turn the other off.