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Home Sharing needs iTunes to be running?

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Maury

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I have a Pro with my old DVD collection on it, and an ATV downstairs. My Network is an Extreme, the one-old model. I have Home Sharing turned on between the two.

Unless iTunes is actively running on the machine, and the machine is awake, Home Sharing content does not appear on the ATV.

I was under the impression that the Express was supposed to act as a mediator, waking my Mac on demand. It used to work. Is this no longer the case?

I can understand having the mac awake to download content, but just to browse file is annoying.
 
yes your mac/pc needs to be awake and itunes needs to be running.

the appletv is able to awake your mac/pc (my 2 do).
 
chenks said:
yes your mac/pc needs to be awake and itunes needs to be running.

the appletv is able to awake your mac/pc (my 2 do).
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Yeah, may have to check if "Wake on Network Access" setting is enabled in System Preferences/Energy Saver
 
iTunes Match

With your music on iTunes Match, ATV2 will play all your tunes and your Mac doesn't need to be on. $25/year. Also get your tunes on iPhone and iPad. Such a deal. (edit: Sorry, I missed that this was about DVDs)
 
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make sure itunes is running, if it's not running when the computer goes to sleep, the express won't hold on to it for you.

the feature you're referring to is call "sleep proxy"

also try rebooting all of your network gear.
 
waw74 said:
make sure itunes is running, if it's not running when the computer goes to sleep, the express won't hold on to it for you.

the feature you're referring to is call "sleep proxy"

also try rebooting all of your network gear.
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would it make any difference if it was sleeping in clamshell mode?
 
iisforiphone said:
would it make any difference if it was sleeping in clamshell mode?
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Are we talking no external monitor? In that case, there is no way you can make the ATV wake your MBP up. The lid has to be open in order for wake on lan to work.
 
hafr said:
Are we talking no external monitor? In that case, there is no way you can make the ATV wake your MBP up. The lid has to be open in order for wake on lan to work.
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no its hooked up to an external monitor but you may of answered my question, does wake for network access only work on a LAN connection?

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chenks said:
25 posts in 1 thread hardly makes it a widespread issue.
i'm not denying you have an issue, but it's more likely to be individual config issues rather than widespread non-functionality.
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not denying your is working but a simple google search shows more than 25 people have this issue

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&safe=active&sclient=psy-ab&q=apple+tv+3+does+not+wake+up+macbook+pro&oq=apple+tv+3+does+not+wake+up+macbook+pro&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.3...316396.316599.1.316724.2.2.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0.NDHNDW0rSnU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=617f732f6a1c0bb9&biw=1024&bih=616
 
iisforiphone said:
not denying your is working but a simple google search shows more than 25 people have this issue

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&safe=active&sclient=psy-ab&q=apple+tv+3+does+not+wake+up+macbook+pro&oq=apple+tv+3+does+not+wake+up+macbook+pro&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=hp.3...316396.316599.1.316724.2.2.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0.NDHNDW0rSnU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=617f732f6a1c0bb9&biw=1024&bih=616
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that's the thing with google search. i could search for almost anything and find a group of people complaining about it not working.

you don't get masses of people posting saying that everything is working fine with no issues.
 
Using "Wake Reason" to launch itunes

So the ATV will wake your "server" (imac, macbook, etc, usually in some other room) on network access...(assuming it is working properly).

The next step that would be awesome would be a script on the server side that detects the Wake Reason as network access from the ATV - then launches itunes. It is annoying to have to go do this manually and I for one don't usually have itunes running in the background all the time.

Then we could just fire up the ATV and be good to go as needed without having to remember itunes, or go in the other room and fix it.
 
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Great Idea

jetlife2 said:
So the ATV will wake your "server" (imac, macbook, etc, usually in some other room) on network access...(assuming it is working properly).

The next step that would be awesome would be a script on the server side that detects the Wake Reason as network access from the ATV - then launches itunes. It is annoying to have to go do this manually and I for one don't usually have itunes running in the background all the time.

Then we could just fire up the ATV and be good to go as needed without having to remember itunes, or go in the other room and fix it.
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This is a great point. ATV should do everything for you. I leave my itunes running all the time now that I have ATV and use it daily. It should wake up my computer and start itunes (and shut it down after a period of inactivity)

I get pissed when I sit down to watch a TV show and realize my itunes is off. I then have to get my lazy az off the couch and walk all the way to the next room to turn it on.:p
 
For what it's worth, my ATV has had a hard time waking my Mac mini from sleep recently to play content.

It's always worked fine in the past. And when it does wake the mini, sometimes it will start playing fine but error out before the movie is over indicating we need to turn on home sharing.

My setup is an ATV 2, a mid 2010 Mac mini (10.7.4), and an Airport Extreme all hard wired.
 
I use the ATV pretty much every day when I get home from work, so now I set my 'server' Mac to boot up automatically around 7pm on weekdays, and iTunes is set to launch on login. It's set to auto-shutdown in the early hours of the morning too.

It's not as energy-efficient as a (functional) wake-on-access feature, but it works ok for me.
 
jetlife2 said:
So the ATV will wake your "server" (imac, macbook, etc, usually in some other room) on network access...(assuming it is working properly).

The next step that would be awesome would be a script on the server side that detects the Wake Reason as network access from the ATV - then launches itunes. It is annoying to have to go do this manually and I for one don't usually have itunes running in the background all the time.

Then we could just fire up the ATV and be good to go as needed without having to remember itunes, or go in the other room and fix it.
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I think a problem with such a script would be that the Apple TV wouldn't know to wake the Mac in the first place. As the Apple TV doesn't look for sleeping computers, and instead monitors the network for instances of iTunes that have registered themselves as available through Home Sharing.
 
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