Airport Extreme with attached Storage or Time Capsule

steve.waite · September 14, 2011, 11:12pm

Which of the two would be the better choice? Any help choosing would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

spaceface · September 15, 2011, 8:02pm

Don’t think it makes much difference. I use Time Capsule with attached storage and have no problems.

steve.waite · September 15, 2011, 8:18pm

Thanks, I went with the Time Capsule and have it working great with ATV2, but for the life of me I cannot see my existing Media Server (smb) on my Macbook or PC. Therefore I am unable to transfer my movies to the Time Capsule.

Steve

steve.waite · September 16, 2011, 4:24pm

Dumb me, all I had to do was reset the switch I have in line and all is well. I have noticed though, if you haven’t accessed the Time Capsule with (Media Player) for a period of time you will get an error when you first try to access it, is this normal? I think it has to do with having to wake up the hard drive before you can access. Any thoughts?

Steve

georgeb.3146 · September 16, 2011, 4:59pm

How do you get your Apple TV2 to connect to time machine or airport extreme with hard drive attached?

spaceface · September 16, 2011, 5:21pm

I assume the AE is your main wi-fi hub for your Mac/PC, you have a hard drive attached to the AE and your Apple TV uses the same network. Once you’ve installed aTV Flash you should find the hard drive under Media/MyFiles/Airport Extreme (or whatever you’ve called it).

Just to make sure Apple TV can find your hard drive, open Finder/Windows Explorer and open the folder. Like the person above pointed out, you can occasionally get connection error but just retry.

georgeb.3146 · September 16, 2011, 5:34pm

I have an Apple Time Machine which is a router/external hard drive. I assume it should work the same.

georgeb.3146 · September 16, 2011, 5:36pm

I meant Time Capsule

spaceface · September 16, 2011, 5:37pm

Yep, that’s actually what I use. It will identify the Time Capsule HD and any HDs you may have attached to it.

apty · September 18, 2011, 5:25am

The ATV will give an error when the external storage on the Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme is not spinning (so hitting a folder another time 5 sec later won’t give an error).

This is also an issue in the middle of a movie when you pause the movie and come back after a while. The Media app will give an error and you’ll have to go back to the main menu and restart the Media app to hit resume.