AppleTV and my computer...

Hi AppleTV owners,

I need a little advice/help etc.

I've just got an ATV and have taken the pain staking job of converting all my vids to m4v. I've turned on home sharing and all is fine.

This morning my wife was in bed (iMac is in my bedroom) and i was in the living room and i decided to have a play with the ATV.

1st question: I have my Mac set to wake on network activity so when turning on my ATV should that in turn wake the Mac so I can access is? (it sees the computer but says "no videos can be found" I have no issues when I manually turn my mac on)

2nd question: I can see my Mac on my iPhone but bizzarly in this scenario I cannot "Airplay" to my ATV?

Sorry for the ramble.

Thanks for taking the time to read this

thekb said:

I know Apple prides itself on making things that "just work" but this ain't necessarily one of them.

It works most of the time, but I have to sometimes shut down iTunes and restart ... turn off home sharing and then turn it back on ... or in a worst case scenario a time or two, I've had to disconnect and reconnect my ATV2 to my wifi, including entering that freaking long password using the very cumbersome interface.

It's not as bullet proof as I had hoped it would be, and I am in a 100% Apple environment (iMac, macbook, Airport Extreme).

Good news is it seems to have improved in the last couple of months. Maybe they've corrected some bugs in recent updates.

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Ahh ok. Cheers for the reply. If it happens again i'll try the 'ol itunes reset