Re: Using Raspberry Pi as media server for Apple TV?

2016-03-14 Thread Scott Granados
You could also just share the volume over NFS or SMB and treat it as literal remote drive. I would like to know more about how the pie experiment goes so I hope you post your findings to the list. I’ve been thinking of ordering one of these to play with but haven’t yet. > On Mar 14, 2016, at

Re: Using Raspberry Pi as media server for Apple TV?

2016-03-14 Thread erik burggraaf
I've never heard of this, one, but there's also one called tonido that was popular and which I plan to use for my own such server. I don't have an apple tv and I don't know wheter there is a tonido app for the apple tv, but even if there is, you may need to update to the latest apple tv to get

Re: Using Raspberry Pi as media server for Apple TV?

2016-03-12 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Hi Alex, As with most things iTunes, the answer is “No”. Your problem is that Apple TV 3 has no means to stream media locally from anything that isn’t iTunes. And iTunes won’t run on a Raspberry Pie (or any NAS). Hence, you can’t get to your FairPlay-protected content on any device, or any c

Re: Using Raspberry Pi as media server for Apple TV?

2016-03-12 Thread venky . 92
Hi, I don't see any direct way of doing this. You may have to use plex media server on your raspberry pi and a plèx media player app on the apple tv. I don't have an apple tv and never tried this out but I remember reading that there is a plex app for the new apple tv. Hope this helps. Thank

Using Raspberry Pi as media server for Apple TV?

2016-03-12 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have a dream of using some kind of networked hard drive as a media server, so that the family can dump all our DVDs onto the drive and play them from any device on the network. This includes iPhones and Macs, but most of all, the Apple TV 3. I know the Pi can't run iTunes, so basic Ho