Select the Home Sharing icon on the left side of iTunes:
If the Home Sharing icon is not visible, choose Advanced > Turn On Home Sharing from the menu bar. (You can disable or enable Home Sharing for your computer using the Advanced menu.)
Note: After enabling Home Sharing, the Home icon representing your computer is no longer visible.
When prompted, enter your Apple ID account name and password:
But sometimes this is not enough !
What happen is that Apple Tv not find your files that you share on itunes.I had big problem with this.
And after reading on my router and and search on many place i just try myself. And i found what was wrong.
Nobody told me this, so i share what i have done.
This is my router Dovado 4GR , 3G and 4G router.
But this router made problem. I tried to contact support and got an answer to update firmware on my router.
That did not help.
Mirror Ipad to Apple TV
Enable AirPlay Mirroring from your iPhone 4S or iPad directly from the recently used apps section in iOS:
Connect your iPhone or iPad and your Apple TV to the same Wi-Fi network.
On your iPhone or iPad, double-click the Home Button to display your recently used apps.
Swipe your recently used apps twice from left to right until you see the icon.
Tap the icon to display a list of available AirPlay devices.
Enable AirPlay Mirroring* from this menu by tapping the name of your Apple TV, then toggle the on/off slider to ON.
For newbies this is same as you had a wire from your ipad to your tv. And you get the screen from your ipad onto your TV.
For this you need and unit called Apple TV
Apple TV
Apple TV: How to mirror from your iPad 2, iPad 3, or iPhone 4s
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So let me share what i did to make Ipad and apple tv work with homeshare and Mirror from Ipad
You need to open some port in your router. Here is what i did to make homesharing work.
So to all that have problem with Homeshare and Mirror (Airplay) this i how you do.
After i did this step everything was working.
My Router is a DOVADO 4GR.
- First i had to logg in to my router.
- Then i went to this window. Here i click on Enable UPnP,
And the biggest shop in Norway called Elkjøp, just told him that there was no way to use an mouse on an ipad.
When you buy things is a shop, you trust the people that they are some kind of expert on the items they sell.
So here we go to show these people a thing or two !
Ipad need to be jailbroken first !
1. You need an mouse that use bluetooth. I bought mine at Clas Olson in my home place. Cost 50 norwegian krone.
2.Download from Cyndia a program called mouse
So let us mess with the experts, just little bit hehehehe.
If you install mouse on an iphone then this also work on an iphone.You can use a mouse on your iphone also.
And to freak out this expert out even more, let us also play a movie on an SD card on an ipad.
The most fun is that if they did know just little bit more about things they could increase the sale.
(Kit for SD card, mouse and a case with bluetooth keyboard)