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

Home Sharing from my Apple TV 3 (A1469) with software 7.0 is not working from the library on my MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) with OS X Yosemite 10.10, Airplay still works but its annoying to have to choose a Song/Movie/TV show from my MBP and then Airplay it to the ATV. Much preferred how well Home Sharing worked.

 

- I have both devices signed in to the same Apple ID.

- Have tired turning Home Sharing off and on

- Have restored the Apple TV

 

Using all devices on the same 5G wifi network (Huawei HG659b)

 

Most annoying thing is it was working perfectly before iTunes 12 was released.

Has anyone else discovered this problem? Does Apple or anyone have a fix?

 

Please HELP!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), Yosemite 10.10

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 5:06 PM

by vants,Solvedanswer
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There is an easier way to resolve this which worked for me after many weeks of trying (since developer preview version 7).  On your Mac go into system preferences, select sharing and change the Computer Name.  That's all you need to do, then your Library will appear on tour Apple TV

Posted on Oct 19, 2014 4:53 AM

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  • by OATE5Y,

    OATE5Y OATE5Y Oct 17, 2014 10:54 PM in response to nzpilot
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    Oct 17, 2014 10:54 PM in response to nzpilot

    I'm also away will try the suggested fix when I'm home later on tonight. Fingers crossed we have found a tempory fix until Apple put out an update. It's annoying the bug wasn't fixed before the public release  I've been reporting this to Apple for the last 2 months.

  • by DanielBSTJ,

    DanielBSTJ DanielBSTJ Oct 17, 2014 11:49 PM in response to OATE5Y
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    Oct 17, 2014 11:49 PM in response to OATE5Y

    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

  • by meuffel,

    meuffel meuffel Oct 18, 2014 9:19 AM in response to DanielBSTJ
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    Oct 18, 2014 9:19 AM in response to DanielBSTJ

    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.  

  • by OATE5Y,Helpful

    OATE5Y OATE5Y Oct 18, 2014 4:24 PM in response to OATE5Y
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    Oct 18, 2014 4:24 PM in response to OATE5Y

    In another update of symptoms; my girlfriends ATV 3 (A1469) and MBP with a new install of Yosemite (never had the beta installed) works perfectly...

    Even more frustrating, I've deleted my library.itl file and rebuilt my library with no luck. I have only ever set up home Sharing from the File menu so thats not the issue with mine unfortunately. I'm glad some of yours has been fixed by switching on home sharing that way.

    I will try another fresh install of Yosemite and see what happens.

  • by nzpilot,

    nzpilot nzpilot Oct 18, 2014 4:30 PM in response to OATE5Y
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    Oct 18, 2014 4:30 PM in response to OATE5Y

    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  

  • by CougarKruger,

    CougarKruger CougarKruger Oct 18, 2014 5:57 PM in response to meanspa
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    Oct 18, 2014 5:57 PM in response to meanspa

    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.

  • by zineer,

    zineer zineer Oct 18, 2014 9:22 PM in response to OATE5Y
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    Oct 18, 2014 9:22 PM in response to OATE5Y

    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)

  • by jamesfromvictor,

    jamesfromvictor jamesfromvictor Oct 19, 2014 12:49 AM in response to OATE5Y
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    Oct 19, 2014 12:49 AM in response to OATE5Y

    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?

  • by jamesfromvictor,

    jamesfromvictor jamesfromvictor Oct 19, 2014 12:51 AM in response to zineer
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    Oct 19, 2014 12:51 AM in response to zineer

    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! 

  • by meuffel,

    meuffel meuffel Oct 19, 2014 1:06 AM in response to jamesfromvictor
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    Oct 19, 2014 1:06 AM in response to jamesfromvictor

    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.

  • by Nefastos,

    Nefastos Nefastos Oct 19, 2014 1:32 AM in response to zineer
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    Oct 19, 2014 1:32 AM in response to zineer

    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.

  • by OATE5Y,

    OATE5Y OATE5Y Oct 19, 2014 1:33 AM in response to meuffel
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    Oct 19, 2014 1:33 AM in response to meuffel

    I've now done two update installs of Yosemite (from the app store) on my macbook pro now with not success. Not sure if it's worth doing a completely clean install from the boot menu has anyone tried this? Like meuffel said he doesn't think it's and thing to do with my beta software.

    Ive tired deleting the library.itl file - NO LUCK I've tried re-naming the library - NO LUCK the ATV recognises the name change but still gives the error message

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  • by nzpilot,

    nzpilot nzpilot Oct 19, 2014 1:45 AM in response to OATE5Y
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    Oct 19, 2014 1:45 AM in response to OATE5Y

    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!

  • by meuffel,

    meuffel meuffel Oct 19, 2014 2:09 AM in response to OATE5Y
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:09 AM in response to OATE5Y

    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.

  • by OATE5Y,

    OATE5Y OATE5Y Oct 19, 2014 2:19 AM in response to meuffel
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:19 AM in response to meuffel

    Ok I'll do a completely clean install of OS X I have all my stuff backed on my time machine drive so its easy to get all the data back just time consuming.

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