Wake up on Lan for AppleTV does not work

[Atais]

Hello,

so nearly a week now I am testing my Asus N66U and I just could not help myself and installed Merlin modification (nearly) straight away.

It is brilliant, the possibilities are nearly unlimited, but I have noticed a bug that did not have while using stock firmware.

My whole home network is based on Apple devices and one of them - Apple TV used to be available for so called AirPlay at all times, whether it was ON or OFF. It just used to wake up by itself.

This is no longer possible and I have to turn it ON first, then it is possible to use it. It is not a big deal but I liked it the old way. Any idea how can I solve this? Can I provide any information to help you with it?

I am using Merlin 376.47.
Thanks a lot!


// One thing I noticed in logs that is quite interesting is that AppleTV constantly asks DHCP for IP, even when I am not using it... like so:

Oct 18 11:33:25 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:33:25 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV
Oct 18 11:35:10 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:35:10 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV
Oct 18 11:36:55 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:36:55 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV
Oct 18 11:38:40 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:38:40 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV
Oct 18 11:40:25 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:40:25 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV
Oct 18 11:42:10 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:42:10 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV
Oct 18 11:44:00 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:44:00 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV
Oct 18 11:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPREQUEST(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15
Oct 18 11:45:45 dnsmasq-dhcp[618]: DHCPACK(br0) 192.168.1.93 9c:20:7b:e7:00:15 Apple-TV

 

[steve23094]

// One thing I noticed in logs that is quite interesting is that AppleTV constantly asks DHCP for IP, even when I am not using it... like so:

I can tell you that my AppleTV does exactly the same thing.

 

[Atais]

Does the WOL work for you at least? I changed nothing but for the routers firmware since I noticed this issue, that is why I blame the router ?

 

[highwire]

It's the AppleTV that's borked here, I think. Mine does the same thing on a RT-AC66U (and also my previous Linksys E3000), so I just assigned the AppleTV a static IP address (on the AppleTV, not the router). WOL works.

 

[Atais]

Well, that is strange because my previous Linksys EA3500 and Asus on stock firmware coupled fine with aTV... but i try static IP .

 

[Atais]

Well in the end I tried reinstalling stock ASUS firmware and AppleTV works as it used to :/. Thanks anyway!

 

[steve23094]

It's the AppleTV that's borked here, I think. Mine does the same thing on a RT-AC66U (and also my previous Linksys E3000), so I just assigned the AppleTV a static IP address (on the AppleTV, not the router). WOL works.

I can confirm that this worked for me too.

I notice that the tool tip on the Apple TV in the network sections says 'For most networks, automatic configuration is sufficient. If you have a custom network with assigned IP addresses, choose Manual'.

I have my router assign IP addresses (much easier than managing each individual device). Maybe the Apple TV's implementation of DHCP is over zealous because this issue has been around for a number of ATV updates?

One thing I haven't tried is to disable the DHCP Server on the router to see if the message will still present itself.

 

[sfx2000]

It's likely not the router...

The most recent AppleTV software (version 7) has some wifi issues related back to iOS8 - and has a tendency to drop out in idle state - key symptom is that it doesn't show up as an AirPlay end-point on a consistent basis.

There is a beta in developers hands, this is part of the Yosemite/IOS8 updates that are expected soon (10.10.1, 8.1.1)

sfx

 

[Zonkd]

Same issue here with my AC68U. As of 376.48, after short period of time I am no longer able to wake any of my Apple TV's (model A1469, all with latest OS version 7.0.1-6912) from my iPhone 5 (iOS8.1) or MacBook Pro (Yosemite 10.10 - 14A389). Using iPhone as a remote is no longer possible. Need to wake it with the standard IR remote first, then it becomes available on the network. I've manually assigned IP for the Apple TV's and all other devices, which made no difference. Rebooting router usually helps.

5GHz network seems to have more issues for me than ever. Logs reveal nothing. After 12 hours of normal functioning, I just found again that I can no longer ping other devices on the network. Services like my file server disappear permanently. Extremely slow just pinging the router. Ranges from 1ms all the way up to 800ms, and that's sitting three feet away from the router line of sight. If I switch to the 2.4GHz band everything reappears. It eventually disappears though. Sometimes just resetting the WIFI adapter on the device helps, other times I need to reboot the whole router. Then everything works again.

Long story short, I'm gonna stop using 5GHz, and I just use the IR remote to wake and force reset the Apple TV if it doesn't become available for AirPlay.

 

[ozgurcnbyz]

Same issue here with my AC68U. As of 376.48, after short period of time I am no longer able to wake any of my Apple TV's (model A1469, all with latest OS version 7.0.1-6912) from my iPhone 5 (iOS8.1) or MacBook Pro (Yosemite 10.10 - 14A389). Using iPhone as a remote is no longer possible. Need to wake it with the standard IR remote first, then it becomes available on the network. I've manually assigned IP for the Apple TV's and all other devices, which made no difference. Rebooting router usually helps.

5GHz network seems to have more issues for me than ever. Logs reveal nothing. After 12 hours of normal functioning, I just found again that I can no longer ping other devices on the network. Services like my file server disappear permanently. Extremely slow just pinging the router. Ranges from 1ms all the way up to 800ms, and that's sitting three feet away from the router line of sight. If I switch to the 2.4GHz band everything reappears. It eventually disappears though. Sometimes just resetting the WIFI adapter on the device helps, other times I need to reboot the whole router. Then everything works again.

Long story short, I'm gonna stop using 5GHz, and I just use the IR remote to wake and force reset the Apple TV if it doesn't become available for AirPlay.

Thank God there are others. I kinda feel like apple households are condemned to apple products and apple products only

 

[PabloAbonia]

It's an mDNS problem with the Apple TV. They run their own method of obtaining addresses and DNS information. You probably need to unplug all the Apple TVs and then reconnect to stop the behavior.

At one point one of my devices was refusing to accept the reserved dhcp address due to mDNS providing an alternate an wrong address.

Pablo


Pablo

 

[IAAI]

i m facing the same issue , didn't change any settings in the apple tv but started using dns server through the router . going to test couple of solutions today

 

[IAAI]

Disabled DNS and sat the device to manual IP and still face the same issue . Must wake it up by remote first

i will try an older fw

 

[ozgurcnbyz]

Btw i found out that i only have this problem when my apple tv is connected to the 5ghz wifi. I have no such problem when i am on the 2.4 ghz