Wake Mac for Apple TV?

[Scott7723]

Same behavior here

Ok, latest Apple Time Capsule, latest MacBook Pro with iTunes library on it, everything hard wired. This works flawlessly with 2 ATV2's but not with my ATV3, so (in my opinion) I have came to this conclusion.

I'm having a similar issue here. No issue waking my macs; iMac, ATV2 and 2-expresses are always available to use (ie. for AirPlay), however, my new ATV3 never is visible via the itunes remote app on my ipad or iphone nor is it visible as an additional speaker on iMac) unless I turn it on with a physical IR remote first. Even when both ATV2 and 3 are hooked up to the same outlet and receiver thinking maybe it was HDMI handshaking thing - I don't understand it.

No issues accessing my iMac, or MB either. My ATV3 is only accessible once awaken via a remote (not the iTunes remote app unfortunately). All routed via an airport extreme.

The following does not resolve it for me:
-Set AppleTV to never go to sleep.
-Set the IP addresses to fixed instead of auto-assigned via DHCP

 

[IBG001]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I have a iMac (mid 2010), a Apple TV (3rd gen), and a Airport Extreme Base station.

Problem: The Apple TV will not wake (WOL) the iMac from sleep.

Yes I have checked the setup in the Energy server. Everything is on the same network.

It is not fully true to say that the iMAC will not wake because it actually receive the request to wake up but it fails and the iMac stays at sleep. I can see i the console that it get the wake up request.

I can even see in the log that the iMac tries to access my Itunes library.

On the ATV i get the messages that the library is empty. No songs in the folder.

 

[EmpyreanUK]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I have a iMac (mid 2010), a Apple TV (3rd gen), and a Airport Extreme Base station.

Problem: The Apple TV will not wake (WOL) the iMac from sleep.

Yes I have checked the setup in the Energy server. Everything is on the same network.

It is not fully true to say that the iMAC will not wake because it actually receive the request to wake up but it fails and the iMac stays at sleep. I can see i the console that it get the wake up request.

I can even see in the log that the iMac tries to access my Itunes library.

On the ATV i get the messages that the library is empty. No songs in the folder.

Is your iTunes library stored on an internal or external disk?

 

[bripab007]

I began experiencing this problem sometime around purchasing an ATV3, upgrading ATV2 to iOS 5.1 (with the new homescreen layout), disconnecting my ATV2 and/or upgrading iTunes (this all happened around the same few days back in March of whenever the ATV3 and updated AppleTV homescreen update was pushed out back in March).

It was frustrating and I tried all the usual things people have suggested in threads on this forum and Apple's support forums, to no avail. I finally gave up and waited for Mountain Lion to see if the situation improved.

ML didn't seem to solve anything, and my frustration continued. One day recently I decided to JB my old ATV2 to possibly give to someone, and while I had both it and my ATV3 on my network, I noticed that, lo and behold, my Mac Mini was again properly WOL'ing for it's various functions like iTunes Home Sharing, SSH'ing, screen sharing, etc.!

So in the meantime, I've left the JB'n ATV2 on the network. There have still been instances in which the WOL'ing all of a sudden breaks again, as well as times when it appears to not let the Mac go to sleep, but for the most part, I'm happy with it. I'd just love to figure out _why_ it's working with that JB ATV2 back on the network.

 

[EmpyreanUK]

I began experiencing this problem sometime around purchasing an ATV3, upgrading ATV2 to iOS 5.1 (with the new homescreen layout), disconnecting my ATV2 and/or upgrading iTunes (this all happened around the same few days back in March of whenever the ATV3 and updated AppleTV homescreen update was pushed out back in March).

It was frustrating and I tried all the usual things people have suggested in threads on this forum and Apple's support forums, to no avail. I finally gave up and waited for Mountain Lion to see if the situation improved.

ML didn't seem to solve anything, and my frustration continued. One day recently I decided to JB my old ATV2 to possibly give to someone, and while I had both it and my ATV3 on my network, I noticed that, lo and behold, my Mac Mini was again properly WOL'ing for it's various functions like iTunes Home Sharing, SSH'ing, screen sharing, etc.!

So in the meantime, I've left the JB'n ATV2 on the network. There have still been instances in which the WOL'ing all of a sudden breaks again, as well as times when it appears to not let the Mac go to sleep, but for the most part, I'm happy with it. I'd just love to figure out _why_ it's working with that JB ATV2 back on the network.

Do you have an Apple router on your network? If not, the ATV would have been functioning as a Bonjour Sleep Proxy to facilitate waking a sleeping Mac to access its iTunes library. If this were the case, it could be that there is a bug in the firmware on the ATV3 that affects the operation of the sleep proxy.

 

[bripab007]

Do you have an Apple router on your network? If not, the ATV would have been functioning as a Bonjour Sleep Proxy to facilitate waking a sleeping Mac to access its iTunes library. If this were the case, it could be that there is a bug in the firmware on the ATV3 that affects the operation of the sleep proxy.

Yes, that's the conclusion I've sort of come to. Though at the time, I thought the update to iOS 5.1 on the ATV2 was when it stopped working. In hindsight, perhaps I was just getting things muddled together since it was right around then that I also got the ATV3 and put the ATV2 to pasture.

 

[bluewooster]

Hi - sorry to resurrect this thread but, until recently, I haven't paid much attention to the "wake on lan" issue (i've had a netbook turned on constantly as my itunes server). Lately, I've been thinking it would be nice to use a 2010 MBA as my itunes server if it could be "sleeping".

I have an ATV2 and 3 - neither will wake my MBA over wireless (on Lion). I've read this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774 which suggests that I need an airport router to enable this feature. However, after reading this thread (and most of the big homesharing thread), I'm skeptical!

Anyone actually having success waking ANY computer with an apple tv? Should I buy an airport or save my money? I could always use the netbook again -Ii have it on a laptop cooler in the basement. Feels a bit wasteful though!

 

[reminisce]

Hopefully this will help people smarter than me to solve the problem.

I'm running a network with a 2Wire 2701HGV-E Gateway. (I've enabled UDP port forwarding) I do not have an airport express or extreme. My network is primarily wireless, however my appletv is connected to the router by ethernet, and the computer I have been trying to wake is connected via wall-plug in another room (ie wired internet with dlink homeplugs intervening). The computer is a 2008 macbook with wake on network enabled. (it predates wake on wireless)

The macbook has its wifi disabled. It's running os x 10.6.8.

My appletv has never been able to wake it (or any of my 3 other macbook pros, including a 2012 macbook pro running mountain lion) via ssh or bonjour print, or even itunes. When I put any of the computers to sleep its library vanishes immediately from the appletv "computers" list. The same thing happens with my apple remote app on my iphone.

Bonjour browser shows that whenever any of my computers sleeps (with lid open) all the services they are offering, eg airprint, itunes vanish. There's no lag period, they just drop out. This leads me to conclude that they are not registering their services with the ATV3 when they go to sleep.

I am able to wake up the macbook using VNCLite on my iphone and my MBPs, illustrating that the WOL packet is being delivered to the router, then thru the wallplugs to the macbook just fine. All its bonjour services reappear immediately. After reading the many, many websites which I'm sure you've all been to by now, I concluded that the problem was a lost cause and the only solution would be an airport express.

Here's where it gets interesting.

I decided to install shairplay on the macbook, which was a story in pain and frustration thanks to the extremely poor online guides (what's with mac developers writing only for other mac developers and not the end users??)

and the hundred or so different versions out there, and also because i'm a PC user and compiling on os x has been a learning experience. Anyway I finally got it working right, after following this guide :

http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=9527

having it not work, installing... a LOT of other dependencies by hand (including avahi), and finally uninstalling avahi.

And then my macbook miraculously woke when I absent mindedly played some music on it from my iphone apple remote app while it was sleeping. The phone tries to open the library (nothing shows on the list initially) as it was left open, and in trying to open the library it somehow wakes the macbook.

Assuming I had somehow repaired the link to the sleep server and that the problem had been on the client side, I tried to replicate this with the ATV 3... But the ATV3 does not see the library at all when the computer is asleep!

Once the macbook goes to sleep the library drops off the ATV3 list; there's no way to try to reopen it from the apple tv, unlike my iphone.

any thoughts?