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ATV3 is driving me insane with random disconnects
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I didn't say that. I know Amazon is not available on ATV. In my case, its a service on my SmartTV.
For what it is worth.
My brother owns a very high end audio / visual business, does whole house set ups and home theaters for those that can afford to spend $30,000 and up. He has told me his biggest headache is with routers, that once more than three devises are connected to your standard home router they start to get erratic. So aside from buying a business class router the best thing to do is to manually assign IP addresses on the devise and the router.
I have done that with three ATV's, (one hard wired), two iPhones, two iPads, two Mac mini and an iTouch. Ten devises total that are connected when we are both home. Ever since I did that the only Home Share issues have been following power outages. And then all I need to reset is Home sharing on the Mac.
May not solve everyone's issues but works for us, worth a shot, love our ATV's.
My brother owns a very high end audio / visual business, does whole house set ups and home theaters for those that can afford to spend $30,000 and up. He has told me his biggest headache is with routers, that once more than three devises are connected to your standard home router they start to get erratic. So aside from buying a business class router the best thing to do is to manually assign IP addresses on the devise and the router.
I have done that with three ATV's, (one hard wired), two iPhones, two iPads, two Mac mini and an iTouch. Ten devises total that are connected when we are both home. Ever since I did that the only Home Share issues have been following power outages. And then all I need to reset is Home sharing on the Mac.
May not solve everyone's issues but works for us, worth a shot, love our ATV's.
Count me in...
I did contacT Apple care Germany a while ago and they don't have clue what the problem is either. Thought it was my ****** isp dsl modem but after reading this thread I get the feeling that I'm not alone. Do you guys encounter the same issues when airplaying from your Macs instead of using home sharing?
Do you also find airplay connections from iOS to be stable and flawless?
I did contacT Apple care Germany a while ago and they don't have clue what the problem is either. Thought it was my ****** isp dsl modem but after reading this thread I get the feeling that I'm not alone. Do you guys encounter the same issues when airplaying from your Macs instead of using home sharing?
Do you also find airplay connections from iOS to be stable and flawless?
Mine works fine 95% of the time through home sharing, however the remaining 5% it drives me up the wall having to run up two flights of stairs to restart iTunes on my iMac. All devices are wired via gigabit ethernet so shouldn't be a problem. So frustrating as it used to work flawlessly.
It will be fixed, but when is anyone's guess.
The idea of writing a script to restart iTunes every 12 hours seems like a good idea!
Thanks for the reply.
I have one or two questions about the practicalities of using an Apple TV with a large-screen television. I should probably open my own thread... I'd be grateful for your opinions, if you wouldn't mind contributing?
This for me also'
"The only way I'm able to get around it is to restart the AppleTV, which fixes it about 25% of the time... or to go on the computer, in iTunes disable Home Sharing then re-enable it (works about 50% of the time), and the other 25% of the time I just give up in frustration."
"The only way I'm able to get around it is to restart the AppleTV, which fixes it about 25% of the time... or to go on the computer, in iTunes disable Home Sharing then re-enable it (works about 50% of the time), and the other 25% of the time I just give up in frustration."
No problem. Start a new thread and send me a PM with the link and I will see if I can help.
just noticed this problem today. I purchased disney planes movie a while back and I tried playing it for my son today and the movie would cut in and out every 2-3 min. We stopped trying to play the movie its annoying. Even when I try to put the apple tv to sleep it suddenly "turns on again"
You can add me to the list of users having problems with ATV 3 since IOS and Yosemite.
Random disconnects to the main menu when trying to watch movies via my iMac and home sharing. Weirdly, things such as Netflix continue to work fine, but it will fail to reconnect to my library and just sit on the spinning wheel.
Rebooting the ATV and iMac still won't make it reconnect to iTunes, but a reboot of my router does. I've tried fixed IP's, DNS changes, IP reservations and none have solved it 100% both wired and wireless. Sometimes I get dropped once other times five or six times during a movie.
Frustrating to say the least.
Random disconnects to the main menu when trying to watch movies via my iMac and home sharing. Weirdly, things such as Netflix continue to work fine, but it will fail to reconnect to my library and just sit on the spinning wheel.
Rebooting the ATV and iMac still won't make it reconnect to iTunes, but a reboot of my router does. I've tried fixed IP's, DNS changes, IP reservations and none have solved it 100% both wired and wireless. Sometimes I get dropped once other times five or six times during a movie.
Frustrating to say the least.
I've been having the same problem for about 7-8 months now. I've tried everything but throw it out the window lol. I purchased a Roku last month and so far it is working great!
Does anyone think this might have to do with the WiFi issues that OS X has been dealing with recently??
I have noticed these issue with the latest Beta's of Yosemite, and streaming from my MP. I have a Apple TV 2
I have noticed these issue with the latest Beta's of Yosemite, and streaming from my MP. I have a Apple TV 2
yeah ever since I did the update things have been similar to mine also. I have to unplug it and reconnect it at least 2 times a day if I'm watching it a lot.
Fix it!!!!!!
Why is it taking Apple so long this time to add a few patch corrections to the Apple TV software? I've been having Netflix issues for about 3 months now, and am still waiting for Apple to resolve this issue. They better hurry, at least for Netflix sake, because I'm just about ready to cancel my subscription. Netflix plays with no problem thru my iPad3, but loses connection to my router about every 5 minutes now. It isn't my router's problem, because Crackle, Youtube and FX Now movies play without any problems at all. Only Netflix, which is 80% of my usage with my Apple TV. Once I ditch Netflix, the Apple TV won't be long after.
Why is it taking Apple so long this time to add a few patch corrections to the Apple TV software? I've been having Netflix issues for about 3 months now, and am still waiting for Apple to resolve this issue. They better hurry, at least for Netflix sake, because I'm just about ready to cancel my subscription. Netflix plays with no problem thru my iPad3, but loses connection to my router about every 5 minutes now. It isn't my router's problem, because Crackle, Youtube and FX Now movies play without any problems at all. Only Netflix, which is 80% of my usage with my Apple TV. Once I ditch Netflix, the Apple TV won't be long after.
Yosemite?
Any of the posters here who have problems: Are you using Yosemite or some other version? I have seen similar threads to this that were tied to "when I installed Yosemite, this began..."
Any of the posters here who have problems: Are you using Yosemite or some other version? I have seen similar threads to this that were tied to "when I installed Yosemite, this began..."
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same exact problem here. I've got ATV3 and time capsule 7.6.4 as a router but I'm using a wired ethernet connection so the TC version should not matter.
Note sure when exactly this started but somewhere around ios 8/Yosemite upgrade (was fine before). Very frequent disconnects from the itunes for no good reason. I have to restart itunes on my mac to reestablish connection. rebooting computer, ATV, TC does not help. Super annoying.
same exact problem here. I've got ATV3 and time capsule 7.6.4 as a router but I'm using a wired ethernet connection so the TC version should not matter.
Note sure when exactly this started but somewhere around ios 8/Yosemite upgrade (was fine before). Very frequent disconnects from the itunes for no good reason. I have to restart itunes on my mac to reestablish connection. rebooting computer, ATV, TC does not help. Super annoying.
If you do a search there is a known problem with yosemite with wireless and bluetooth both being on. I was trying to airplay to an atv3 and had problems. Turned of bluetooth and no more shuttering.
Its bs that this is a problem, but turning off blue tooth may help some of these issues.
Do a search and some complicated discussions come up.
Its bs that this is a problem, but turning off blue tooth may help some of these issues.
Do a search and some complicated discussions come up.
Why is it taking Apple so long this time to add a few patch corrections to the Apple TV software? I've been having Netflix issues for about 3 months now, and am still waiting for Apple to resolve this issue. They better hurry, at least for Netflix sake, because I'm just about ready to cancel my subscription. Netflix plays with no problem thru my iPad3, but loses connection to my router about every 5 minutes now. It isn't my router's problem, because Crackle, Youtube and FX Now movies play without any problems at all. Only Netflix, which is 80% of my usage with my Apple TV. Once I ditch Netflix, the Apple TV won't be long after.
Things don't get much attention when they're just a hobby.
i didn't read through the whole thread, but has anyone done a settings reset? with apple products these days, it seems like resetting network settings or "all settings" does the trick.
just a thought. (like i said, didn't read through the thread, so if its been covered, my bad)
just a thought. (like i said, didn't read through the thread, so if its been covered, my bad)
I have 2 atvs too. I find that since yosemite it's more about only one device having access at once. If I connect and use one atv, the other cannot see the library. Then if that atv disconnects, the other cannot access the library until the Mac is asleep again. So if I need to swap between devices, including iOS devices, I always have to put the Mac to sleep to allow the other device to connect.