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Hi,
This has been driving me nuts for a few days now.
I wanted to find a way to stream things from my iTunes library to my Apple TV 2 without having my Macbook on all the time.
Now, after a bit of fiddling, I put my Airport Extreme Base Station on my wireless network by hardwiring it to my BT Home Hub (ethernet). Then into the Extreme Base Station I connected my Western Digital 1TB External Hard Drive, to make it and all its contents available on the wireless network. It worked a treat and being Apple, was incredibly easy to set-up.
I wanted to use this ultimately to stream the content from the Base Station straight to Apple TV 2, eliminating my MacBook.
It didn't work. After some forum searching I found two different answers but both seemed unreliable sources.
So here I am. The two options were:
1. Yes it should work. Connect Apple TV 2 to your Base Station rather than to your network which has iTunes on it, and all your content should pop up no problems.
Or, the other extreme;
2. No it won't work. Although your content will be available on your wireless network, Apple TV 2 needs iTunes open as it relies on Home Sharing to stream from its source.
Can somebody please tell me which is correct! Like I said, its been driving me insane and have been running in circles for days now!!
Thanks for your time,
Mike
This has been driving me nuts for a few days now.
I wanted to find a way to stream things from my iTunes library to my Apple TV 2 without having my Macbook on all the time.
Now, after a bit of fiddling, I put my Airport Extreme Base Station on my wireless network by hardwiring it to my BT Home Hub (ethernet). Then into the Extreme Base Station I connected my Western Digital 1TB External Hard Drive, to make it and all its contents available on the wireless network. It worked a treat and being Apple, was incredibly easy to set-up.
I wanted to use this ultimately to stream the content from the Base Station straight to Apple TV 2, eliminating my MacBook.
It didn't work. After some forum searching I found two different answers but both seemed unreliable sources.
So here I am. The two options were:
1. Yes it should work. Connect Apple TV 2 to your Base Station rather than to your network which has iTunes on it, and all your content should pop up no problems.
Or, the other extreme;
2. No it won't work. Although your content will be available on your wireless network, Apple TV 2 needs iTunes open as it relies on Home Sharing to stream from its source.
Can somebody please tell me which is correct! Like I said, its been driving me insane and have been running in circles for days now!!
Thanks for your time,
Mike