Home sharing

[JoeShades]

Starting Yesterday, I keep getting a message no libraries available. I restart Itunes and my photos come back for awhile and then same message after about half an hour. I have to keep restarting Itunes and then same problem. I have tried restarting Apple tv, restart home sharing but nothing works. Itunes and Windows are both up to date, it was working fine and then this started happening

 

[ignatius345]

Have you tried restarting your wifi router?

 

[JoeShades]

Have you tried restarting your wifi router?

No,I will try that but if that was the issue then I would think there would be problems with plex,infuse and my other devices and there isn’t

 

[ignatius345]

No,I will try that but if that was the issue then I would think there would be problems with plex,infuse and my other devices and there isn’t

No idea. But it's worth a try.

 

[priitv8]

No,I will try that but if that was the issue then I would think there would be problems with plex,infuse and my other devices and there isn’t

Bear in mind, that Home Sharing requires constant authentication to Apple servers to function.
Local network visibility is not enough.

 

[JoeShades]

Bear in mind, that Home Sharing requires constant authentication to Apple servers to function.
Local network visibility is not enough.

What seemed to work was switching from ethernet on my PC to WIFI, don't understand why that would matter, it never has in the past

 

[priitv8]

What seemed to work was switching from ethernet on my PC to WIFI, don't understand why that would matter, it never has in the past

Could it be, that your wifi network is created in a different subnet, than the wired one?

 

[JoeShades]

Could it be, that your wifi network is created in a different subnet, than the wired one?

I have my 2.4 and 5ghz separated but it has been that way for years

 

[priitv8]

I have my 2.4 and 5ghz separated but it has been that way for years

Different subnets means different ranges of IP addresses.
Something like this

https://superuser.com/questions/1554115/how-to-change-subnets-of-wifi-connected-devices-and-what-to-consider

 

[ThrowerGB]

Starting Yesterday, I keep getting a message no libraries available. I restart Itunes and my photos come back for awhile and then same message after about half an hour. I have to keep restarting Itunes and then same problem. I have tried restarting Apple tv, restart home sharing but nothing works. Itunes and Windows are both up to date, it was working fine and then this started happening

I've found that simply resetting via the software reset function often doesn't help. But physically unplugging the device and waiting a minute then plugging back in, usually works to fix Apple TV problems. I've also found that approach works on routers and modems. And recently nothing was solving my Apple TV problem so I finally realized I needed help and called the Spectrum support line. The agent did some tricks that took about a minute and everything was working again.
Hope you find this useful.