I’ve previous and unsupported Apple TV gen 2 and three units hooked as much as 2 of my TVs. I do know they’re previous however they nonetheless work effective for my functions.
Linked utilizing Wifi on to my foremost router, I’m able to entry my media assortment hosted on my Mac, utilizing Apple Dwelling Sharing, from each Apple TVs simply effective.
I lately needed to scale back the Wifi footprint in my house, so I received 2 Wifi repeaters and positioned them within the 2 rooms with the TVs. I connected every TV, recreation consoles and the Apple TVs to every repeater utilizing ethernet cables. Every little thing works nice. The sport consoles join on-line and don’t have any issues in multiplayer video games. The TV can entry the community and all the things seems to work there. Each Apple TVs enable me to hook up with iTunes to hire motion pictures or buy or hearken to music, nonetheless when I attempt to entry the Computer systems tile on the primary menu, which makes use of Apple Dwelling Sharing, nothing seems. I get an error message saying that there isn’t a shared library. If I unplug the ethernet cable and it reconnects to wifi, all of the sudden the media library exhibits up simply effective.
The repeaters have a 4 port swap inbuilt and are setup in bridge mode with the gateway set to the primary router (192.168.1.1). All safety choices and repair choices (upnp, and so on) are turned off on the repeaters. IPv6 is turned off on the primary router and all the repeaters.
I do know I can merely simply maintain the Apple TVs in wifi mode and be simply effective…
Nonetheless, I wish to know what’s going on right here. Why does not Apple Dwelling Sharing work with an ethernet connection? I haven’t got any of the Apple TV 4k fashions to check, so I am not even positive is that this challenge is restricted to the gen 2 and three or not. Is there anybody that may make clear what’s going on or find out how to repair it? Thanks.
Edit I confirmed that it isn’t the ethernet connection, however the repeaters inflicting the problem. I linked the Apple TVs on to my foremost router with ethernet and residential sharing works effective.
So, some community configuration is obstructing the house sharing from working utilizing repeaters. I am unable to think about what.
Edit 2
I added an Archer C7 v2 working dd-wrt in wifi repeater mode. Very same challenge. I additionally tried an Archer C7 v5 with inventory firmware as the primary entry level with the identical end result. I attempted a Archer C7 v2 with dd-wrt as the primary entry level and I’ve the very same challenge with it. Under is my configuration for the dd-wrt repeater. Every little thing not proven is both turned off (dnsmasq, spi firewall, upnp, port forwarding, and so on) or default. Each are utilizing WPA2 AES with the identical key. I am utilizing the 5GHz radios for repeater communication and the two.4Ghz for linked units.
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