Airport Express disappeared from Airplay

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Airport Express disappeared from Airplay

I have a 2nd generation Airport Express running version 7.6.7.

I am using it in order to play music from my ipad/iphone/macbook to my stereo (connection through the airport's jack port).

Airport Express is connected to my router through ethernet. Therefor its setup is the following:

Internet connection with Static ip.
Wireless OFF
Network in Bridge Mode
Airplay enabled

Normally in the past since it was in thesame network as my ipad I could directly hear my music playing from my iPad through my stereo by selecting Airport Express from iPad Airplay. Now I may no longer do that. Airport Utility shows Airport Express only when I am directly connected on it through the second port.

(The strange thing is that I also have an Apple TV with similar settings installed and I may see it normally from any device...)

Any suggestions please?

Thank you in advance for your time.

Nas

Posted on Aug 27, 2016 7:23 AM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

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Aug 27, 2016 8:39 AM in response to peppitos

What exact model is your iPad? Did you happen to update it to iOS 9.3.5 recently?

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peppitos Author

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Aug 28, 2016 8:48 AM in response to Tesserax

I have an iPad Pro 9.7 running ios 9.3.2

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Tesserax

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Aug 28, 2016 9:03 AM in response to peppitos

So both the Apple TV and AirPort Express are connected to your "main" router by Ethernet, but only the Apple TV shows up as a AirPlay device on your iPad ... correct?

Were you able to use the Express for AirPlay prior to upgrading its firmware to 7.6.7? Have you tried downgrading the firmware yet?

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peppitos Author

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Aug 28, 2016 12:27 PM in response to Tesserax

Yes, I was able to use Airport Express for Airplay prior to upgrading the firmware to 7.6.7.

I followed your suggestion and downgraded back to 7.6.4, however the result was exactly the same so I reinstalled 7.6.7 and kept trying too figure out what causes the problem.

One thing that I noticed was that while I was connected to my wifi network, I was able to ping the address of Airport Express which is strange considering the fact that Airport Utility may not see it through wifi only through ethernet cable.

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Tesserax

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Aug 28, 2016 12:39 PM in response to peppitos

The AirPort Utility uses IPv6 & Bonjour to "see" the AirPort base stations. It may be possible that your Express is not configured properly. Specifically, we want to enable IPv6 Link-local only mode on the Express.

Here's how:

From the iPad:

Tap on the AirPort Utility.
Tap on the Express, and then, select tap Edit
Tap Advanced > IPv6
Configure IPv6: Link-local only
Tap Done.

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peppitos Author

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Aug 28, 2016 1:03 PM in response to Tesserax

I couldn't connect through my iPad as iPad's Airport Utility may not see Airport Express.

So I connected from a mac with ethernet instead.

IPv6 menu was located under the Internet tab-->Internet Options. I configured IPv6 to Link-Local only but the result was the same as before. I am attaching a picture from the Airport settings:

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Tesserax

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Aug 29, 2016 7:47 AM in response to peppitos

Sorry, but at this point, I am not sure what the issue may be. The only thing I can still suggest is to perform a "factory default" reset on the Express to see if that helps.

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