hardware

Fix AirPlay on Huawei E586 mifi

I’ve been using Hauwei E586 as my mobile 3G modem for quite a while. It works really good for up to 4 devices. One thing that did not work properly was AirPlay. Devices would see each other at first, make a connection and immediatelly drop it. I did not have a solution for this until recently where I stumbled on cause of the problem. By default, this little setting is set to ON:

One little setting to fixed

Switch it to OFF and - no restart needed - AirPlay works great. Apparently Huawei added this at some point late in the firmware update cycle so not a lot of people encountered this. Nor many of them need AirPlay on the go. :)