Can't get Home Sharing to work with ATV, v7.0.3 and iTunes 12.1.0.50

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Can't get Home Sharing to work with ATV, v7.0.3 and iTunes 12.1.0.50

I can't get Home Sharing to work. I'm looking at my MacBook screen and iTunes says Home Sharing is On. On Apple TV, it says Turn On Home Sharing in iTunes. Both are using the same Apple ID and password (signed out and signed back in manually on both). I have tried the following: Signing out of and into Home Sharing on Apple TV and iTunes, closing iTunes and restarting the MacBook, restarting and restoring Apple TV to factory settings, restarting my router, all possible iterations of the aforementioned. Nothing seems to work. Also tried renaming my computer in preferences/sharing.

Any new ideas?

Using ATV3 software v7.0.3

iTunes software v12.1.0.50

MacBook software OS X Yosemite v10.10.2

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 13, 2015 3:26 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 13, 2015 4:18 AM in response to FranzFranz

Hi,

which network are you using? Are both using wireless LAN in the same network?

Did it ever work?

Did you already review the home sharing trouble shooting page:

Troubleshooting Home Sharing - Apple Support

Regards... Holger

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Answer 2

FranzFranz Author

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Feb 13, 2015 6:07 PM in response to homartens

Only have one network; wireless. On it's own, the MacBook can use wifi to surf the net and Apple TV can watch movie previews from Apple via wifi.

It did work about two months ago. I haven't used it since then for home sharing but have used the Apple TV on its own.

I read the Troubleshooting page on Apple Support. It involves turning various things on and off, which I did

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Answer 3

Feb 14, 2015 4:08 PM in response to FranzFranz

You're not the only one, Apple broke home sharing it seems....

Home sharing not working after update to iTunes 12.1

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Answer 4

Feb 16, 2015 10:09 AM in response to FranzFranz

This helped me:Homesharing FIX - itunes 12.1.26

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Answer 5

Feb 17, 2015 2:56 PM in response to FranzFranz

Bump. Home Sharing no longer works for me on my ATV2, ATV3, iPhone6, iPad mini...

I've ensured that my computer name is fine as per the previous fix. I've done the reboots, disable/reenable, reset router, etc. Nothing has helped. I suspect this is iTunes software related to 12.1.0.50

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exq0867

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Mar 26, 2015 4:13 PM in response to FranzFranz

Same problem and tried all posted solutions to no avail. Finally set static IP address to some outside the basic range and suddenly started working. Must be some bug with iTunes and DHCP.

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