Comments on: Apple TV not showing up in iTunes

By: Antony

Antony — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:49:18 +0000

A bit more information if someone can help. I can see the ATV in Bonjour Browser, and I can see also when its available for pairing, can’t see it in iTunes obviously. I can’t ping it, permission denied but I can ping ATV from the other computer and the computers can ping each other. So my thoughts are there is something wrong in iTunes, which, I have reloaded!! Ideas?

By: Antony

Antony — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:26:23 +0000

How is this, we have 2 intel macs in the house, side by side. One can see ATV, the other can’t and as far as I can tell the settings are identical, the software is the same. The one that can’t was the first to go on and sync with ATV and has never been able to connect again. The other one can connect any time! Driving me nuts. I’ve tried most of what has been shown above but getting nowhere.

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:06:27 +0000

I too have lost my ATV connection on En1. Running the test I get the following failure log beneath. Any ideas as I guess this is the root of the problem. (btw _appletv._tcp shows in Bonjour Browser – but ATV does not show in iTunes).

Cheers, Ross

*** Beginning Link-Local Address Allocation Test ***

15:00:22 starting test: INITIAL PROBING
Received probe for 192.168.0.116 [00:1f:3f:84:08:61].
PASSED (INITIAL PROBING)

15:00:44 starting test: PROBING
(skipping probe denials)
Sending conflicting probe for 192.168.0.116.
Received probe for new address 192.168.0.124.
Sending conflicting probe for 192.168.0.124.
Device did not select a new IP address when its candidate address was probed for by another (simulated) device.
FAILED (PROBING)
Unable to recover from failures. Aborting link-local address test.
Could not recover from failures. Aborting test.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:45:02 +0000

I had trouble with ATV not showing up in itunes. I have a Macbook with OS X 10.5.8, itunes version 9.0.2, a BT Homehub router and new Apple TV, version 3.0.1. When I first set it up it worked ok, took ages to sync and never synced the whole library then worked very seldom at all after that. I tried all sorts of things I found on the net to no avail. I eventually phoned Apple Support and was asked about the type of security that was set up on my wireless broadband router. I had WEP, the technician said to go into the router settings and change it to WPA. I tried this and itunes detected my apple tv straight away! I’m not sure how permanent this fix is but it seems to be working so far…

By: FiveO

FiveO — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:32:54 +0000

Quitting the mDNSresponder service solved my problems too! By the way – also my Twonky DLNA server didn’t work either, but now it does – so I guess this is not a Bonjour problem.

By: cesar

cesar — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:24:18 +0000

Apple TV was showing up in Bonjour Browser, rebooted everything, inc the router, ping worked ok, but wouldn´t show up in iTunes.

unpairing from my computer´s library and pairing it solved the problem. Silly but works!

By: Chris Lindstrom » Blog Archive » My Apple TV Experience

Chris Lindstrom » Blog Archive » My Apple TV Experience — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:42:39 +0000

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By: Brock

Brock — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:49:50 +0000

For me, my Apple TV sits next to our Wii. Turns out, when the Wii is on it causes interference with the Apple TV. There’s 5 hours down the drain. Hope that helps someone else.

By: John S

John S — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:14:37 +0000

This problem has been driving me nuts for days. The solutions offered here seen to be better than any others on the web, the trouble is I cannot keep track of the final recommendation. The solution seems to be:
1. Try to open the Utilities – Activity Monitor and do a Quit on the mDNSresponder service. It will restart automatically and force a refresh of the Bonjour scan. If that does not work …
2. Install and run bonjour browser
3. Try en0 and en1 in the IPv4 address

Is that it?

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:45:40 +0000

In case somebody is using a Hackint0sh OS86X: Do not use the original Realtek drivers. Use the RealtekR1000.kext. The original driver is unable to work with Bonjour.

By: Rico

Rico — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:56:11 +0000

I had a similar issue connecting my Apple TV to iTunes 8.0.1 on WinXP Home. None of this helped, but it turns out that my issue was that I had “turned off” IE by checking “Work Offline” in the File menu of IE. Once I unchecked that, they paired just fine.

And now I have a huge gaping security hole in Windows. Yay…

By: a beech

a beech — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:31:28 +0000

i had the problem that my apple tv was not in itunes and i solved this by changing my router back to my old netgear from bt hub. i think the router had locks which would not allow apple tv to show unless configured. could not be bothered to configure router so just used my netgear wireless

By: Smatt

Smatt — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:04:22 +0000

Apple TV is listed in the Bonjour browser but it also says “can’t resolve link-local name”. My 2007 Macbook doesn’t pass the conformance test either. Any ideas?

By: garoda

garoda — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:34:55 +0000

Ran the process.
stays in listening… device not responding or something like that. What am I missing?

By: BrettOG

BrettOG — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:42:17 +0000

mDNSresponder doen’t show up on my activity monitor…so no quitting that. What the hell? Why do I run updates. Damn thing ran fine before I updated!

By: steve

steve — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:38:39 +0000

@Tim,

THANK YOU! Quiting the mDNSresponder activity did the trick for me.

By: Jim Felder

Jim Felder — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:50:39 +0000

Well, not sure if that fixed it but it works now. It’s been days. Thanks.

By: Jim Felder

Jim Felder — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:40:32 +0000

I have done what you have said above and still no luck. I’m using a linksys wrt54g router v4. It use to work and I don’t know what has happened. I connected my macbook directly with an ethernet cable and it worked fine. My G5 is connecting the network via wireless. I think it might have been when Cox ISP went down. I restarted the router, modem, G5, apple tv, restored ATV to factory. nothing is working. SO FREAKING MAD!!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:51:29 +0000

Just to let anyone who reads this great solution know, most wireless routers / access points call this option “AP Isolation”. It just means the access point / router tries to prevent wireless devices from seeing each other or being seen by other network devices. It is hardly consistent and this is why ping works fine. Turning it off should not have any serious effect for a home wireless network – and if you are using WEP/WPA/WPA2 (and you absolutely should be) then the security risk is virtually nothing.

I cannot stress what a great find this was, as quite a lot of people have been having the problem.

Regarding the Bonjour fix, another “fast” solution on a Mac is to open the Utilities – Activity Monitor and do a Quit on the mDNSresponder service. It will restart automatically and force a refresh of the Bonjour scan.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:22:21 +0000

John, you could try en1 as well if en0 ist not working.

By: John L

John L — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:54:53 +0000

I have been having the same problem and it has been driving me nuts, so I was glad to read your post.

I tried (to the best of my meager unix ability) to execute your fix, but I got the following message:

“No active interface en0 found with assigned IPv4 address”

I checked my DHCP settings and I do have an IP address (and all Internet apps are working fine). Any thoughts?

Thanks,

John