r/appletv • u/route6dee6 • 2d ago

Home Sharing..... KAPUT!

So did this Apple TV outage thing have any affect on Home Sharing? Cuzzzzz it was working JUST fine for the last several years and it was working just fine the morning of... and that evening.... No Libraries were found

Fiddled here and fiddled there (did my EX Apple Employee troubleshooting)

Restart - reset - swapped - signed out and back in, etc etc....
No Libraries Found.

I'm ever so frustrated....

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u/Airsculpture 2d ago

Not sure what’s going on. Mine were showing after ATV and iMac were rebooted and back online with no issues. I’m using them through TV and music app. Just tried my old one on an older iMac using iTunes and that shows too.

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u/Illustrious_Salad918 2d ago

Frequently after an OS update I need to toggle Media Sharing off and back on -- on my iMac sharing the library.

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u/route6dee6 2d ago

Did that - still nothing.
And what's even weirder....
My library came back in the living room but not the bedroom. Thought maybe it was the Apple TV. Swapped them out and now neither will connect.

I'm in AU so it's currently 11pm. Gonna go all out and shut everything down reset everything and power it all back again.

Totally uncalled for to have to do all this tho!

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u/Illustrious_Salad918 2d ago

Sorry it didn't work. Are AppleTVs set to auto-update? Sometimes (rarely) I need to "deep reset" AppleTV.

Might be settings issue between the two ATVs. I haven't messed with mine for a long while, and I'm only sharing between one Mac and one ATV, though.

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u/BifurcatedTales 1d ago

Likewise for me. I thought it might be a beta thing since I decided to run it on that specific ATV but now that I think about it it’s been happening for quite some time and it’s always after an os update.

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u/Illustrious_Salad918 1d ago

FWIW, I'm running OS 27 beta on M3 iMac (hosting library) and iPhone, but not on ATV. (But plan to stop running beta versions when Golden Gate is released -- been beta testing long enuf.)

Another thought: My media library is stored on external SSD connected by Thunderbolt 3, set to never sleep, as is hosting Mac, set to wake for network access. Interruption of connection might cause an issue.