Please let me know if there’s a better way.)Ĭan I connect Airport Express wirelessly (for Airplay purposes) to a Wifi 6 router? I currently have an Airport Time Capsule serving as my main router creating a whole house network. (Note: I’ve been using the “airport utility” app on my iPhone to do the configuration. So far I’ve either ended up with the Express becoming a rogue WiFi access point and fighting with real routers, or disappearing from the network altogether (despite still showing a green light)? What are the right settings to use to do this?įor example: in order to appear as an airplay device, must the Express be connected to WIFI (or can I have it connect to the network via wired Ethernet only)? (I.e., does the airplay2 protocol somehow require wireless for proximity even if the computers themselves are both connected to the same (faster) wired network - like airdrop does?) If WiFi is required, what settings do I use to have it connect to the network without trying to extend it? If no WiFi is required, what settings do I use to turn off the radio altogether? I do not want the Express to create or extend my wireless network. (I then have speakers connected to the Express’s optical audio jack. I have an existing (non-airport) network which I would like the Airport Express to connect to as a client (ideally as a wired client), and then I would like it to show up in the list of available airplay speakers that my apple devices have the option to send music to. I’m trying to set up my airport express as an airplay2 device and can’t seem to get the configuration right. It would be great if I could set it up as a Wi-Fi extender (bridge) for my BT Smarthub. Thank you.Ĭonfiguring an Airport Express for audio only? Hi, In this mode it will stream from Airplay on my iPhone to the speaker - and it sounds great!īut it’s a pain having to lose the internet to do it and it doesn’t seem very stable. Nonetheless, I can make it work using Airplay by ignoring all three status messages and coming off my Wi-Fi network and joining the Airport Express network. I have set it up in what seems to be a standalone Wi-Fi network with no internet connection (the amber light keeps flashing) and there are three status messages shown in Airport Utility (Ethernet unplugged, no internet connection and no DNS server). I want to use it wirelessly if possible so I don’t have to lay an Ethernet extension cable. Still it did download the latest firmware. But I couldn’t get it to join the network (amber light flashing). I’m having trouble setting up the AirPort Express to link with my BT Smart Hub? I’ve updated the firmware by temporarily plugging it in via an Ethernet cable to my BT Smart Hub. I can, but only in what seems to be a standalone network.

I have connected an old B&O speaker to my Apple AirPort Express using the audio socket in the hope that I can use Airplay to stream to the speaker. Post back for more information if that is the case.Hello. If you have an AirPort Express.but thought that it was an AirPort Extreme.then you have some options to use the product for AirPlay. If you don't want to connect the AirPort Extreme to your Google WiFi router using a wired connection, I'm sorry, but you have purchased the wrong product. The bottom line here.if you do have an AirPort Extreme, the only way that it will work with the Google WiFi is to connect the AirPort Extreme back to the Google WiFi router using a permanent, wired Ethernet cable connection.or.if you cannot run the Ethernet cable, a pair of Ethernet over Powerline adapters might be able to send a signal over the existing AC wiring in your home. So, Apple has done away with a useless setting for the current AirPort Extreme that accomplishes nothing.Īn AirPort Express can 'join' a wireless network for use with AirPlay, but the Express does not 'extend' the wireless network signal when it joins. There is no extension of the wireless network and the Ethernet ports are not enabled. Even If the AirPort Extreme could 'join' a wireless network, it does nothing.

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