Hi Ronni First my questions.
1. Are you suggesting I set Energy Saver for computer sleep to "never"? I am reluctant to do this - comments later. 2. I understood Mac users are advised to leave their computers permanently "on" rather than completely powering off every night. Is this no longer the rule? Second, my settings. System Preferences > Energy Saver has "wake for network access" checked. Energy Saver times are set to 25 mins for both Computer and Display sleep. Also checked to put hard drive to sleep when possible. Password login in Security & Privacy is set to 1 hour after sleep. iTunes has "Home Sharing ON" (permanently). ATV can see iTunes libraries just by touching the space bar on keyboard and entering password in iMac. It is not necessary to close down iTunes and relaunch it (which I used to do). May not even need password entered, but I haven't tried that variable. I normally leave the iMac powered up, with say a weekly restart and monthly power shutdown when strange things are manifest. And third, more comments. I thought Bonjour etc was supposed to allow network connection when system was "fully" asleep. In Console I get System Log messages right through the night at seemingly regular intervals. Probably making wrong assumptions here. I feel problems started with upgrade to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard). Lot of other strange things occur but should not be relevant to this Mac sleep - iTunes - ATV issue. Regards, Alan On 22/09/2012, at 3:57 PM, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Alan, When the iMac sleeps there is no network connectivity. You can put just the display to sleep (ctrl-shift-eject does this). This will turn off the display and conserve power whilst still keeping the iMac turned on and thus the network connection(s). Or, Perhaps try turning on 'Home Sharing' and see if that helps? Also what happens if you Quit iTunes and Re-launch iTunes? Cheers, Ronni On 22/09/2012, at 3:19 PM, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Help please with aN irritating, irregular, but non-fatal problem with Apple > TV (or iMac). > > With iMac in sleep mode and with password needed to start (say one hour > minimum unused), Apple TV 2 cannot activate iTunes. ATV can access YouTube > at this time. ATV message is to turn home sharing on. All that is needed is > to just physically wake the Mac and sign in. > > Not consistent! Sometime will work with ATV fired up first thing in morning. > > IMac wifi is off. ATV connected to Belkin router via Ethernet. Wake for > network access is checked in system preferences. > > Running Mountain Lion and all software is up to date. > > Irritating because I have a deep TV chair and the Mac is rooms away! > > Alan Smith > > Sent from my iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120922/ef457487/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
