This is a short and simple guide on how to AirPlay to OSX/Windows/iOS & Android [in the future hopefully]. This requires your iDevice & your AirPlay target i.e. Windows laptop to be on the same WiFi network.  To be clear, you do NOT need a jailbreak for this but it will work a lot better with things like VideoPane. Please note, you may have to fiddle around with a few times to get it to work 100%, that may include restarting XBMC, AirPlay service, computer etc but leave any problems and I'll try to help out.

For this guide I am using Windows 7 x64 with my iPhone 5 iOS 7.0.6 and this works flawlessly. I have tried it on Windows 8 x64, it didn't work straight away but after som fiddling I can only confirm it working on there too. 

 

1.  You want to go to this link here and download the corresponding version for what you need.

2. Go through the on-screen installation process and when it's complete you need to open XBMC.

3. Navigate to System>Settings>Services and then at the bottom keep clicking on 'Settings Level' until it gets to 'Advanced'.

4. Select 'Zeroconf' in the navigation bar and make sure that 'Announce these services to other systems via Zeroconf' is selected so the circle turns blue in colour.

5. Now select 'AirPlay' in the navigate bar and make sure that 'Allow XBMC to recieve AirPlay content' is selected so the circle turns blue in colour.

6. Everything that you need to setup, is now done. When viewing a video you should now see the AirPlay icon, select it, then select your AirPlay target. Or when you go to view photos in the photo app they should automatically be showing up on XBMC. So you can be sure whether it's actually 'working' when you start to play a video, you should see a pop up in the bottom right hand corner of XBMC saying 'working'

7. Enjoy!

Known issues:

1) Video plays but no audio, my fix was to toggle between AIrPlay and my iPhone a few times then it worked fine 
2) On Windows 8 x64, I cannot get video or audio to work, my fix was to turn OFF AirPlay & Zeroconf in settings on XBMC then restart the program and enable them again 

P.S. there is infact an official XBMC remote for iOS, if requested I will add this to the guide!


Changelog:

30/3/2014 - Mistake made at "System>Settings" it should be "System>Settings>Services"