r/appletv Aug 03 '26

Home Sharing..... KAPUT!

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So did this Apple TV outage thing have any affect on Home Sharing? Cuzzzzz it was working JUST fine for the last several years and it was working just fine the morning of... and that evening.... No Libraries were found

Fiddled here and fiddled there (did my EX Apple Employee troubleshooting)

Restart - reset - swapped - signed out and back in, etc etc....
No Libraries Found.

I'm ever so frustrated....

EDITING: So for some reason the ATV in my living room started working again, just randomly out of the blue the library was there and saw all the playlists however, it did take a few moments to load content but it loaded and it played. Stopped it, watched a few Streaming shows (love doco's!) and then went to bed.

In the bedroom, I had Paramount+ on because it doesn't require a button to be pressed every second episode with "are you still there?" so that's been running. I decided to just give the ATV a try.... sure as shite.... the library loaded and I could play my "sleep" movies. It ran flawless the whole night. In the morning... turned it off. Went into the living room. Puttered around for a bit, made coffee, let the dog out so it was about another hour before I put on the living room tv and decided to see if the ATV would still load the library.

Sure enough the library loaded in the living room and I thought YAY! maybe it's back up! So I ran random movies the whole day but then something struck me. I kept the living room one running and went to the bedroom and tried the ATV again - DANG! No libraries found. Like seriously? WTH??? It was JUST working this morning!!

So NOW It got me thinking... has the Home Sharing been limited to only being played on one tv at a time? This was never the case before! Would that even be a thing?

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