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Ason12

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May 25, 2008
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Hey all,

Just picked up a new Apple TV and I'm super confused. I have the remote set to control my receiver (Yamaha RX-V667) and my TV and every time I put it to sleep it automatically turns off my receiver and TV as it's supposed to. However, after a minute it turns back on and then turns everything else back on as well. I can't figure out for the life of me why.

Any thoughts?
 
Theres an option to control other things. turn it off.

Remotes/devices - control TVs and Receivers.
 
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AFEPPL said:
Theres an option to control other things. turn it off.

Remotes/devices - control TVs and Receivers.
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Right, but if I turn that off then I can't control my TV or Receiver... Or am I misunderstanding that setting?
 
I actually took care of that all already. Kind of odd now, but the "Turn On Your TV with Your Remote" is now actually greyed out for no reason?
 
I have a Panasonic TV with Sonos soundbar connected via optical.

With the turn TV on/off it was a nightmare. The whole system was either on or off and it was all but impossible to watch TV through the Sky box. HDMI 1 is Sky box; HDMI 2 is DVD player; HDMI 3 is ATV.

I turned it off and have reverted to the routine I had when my Mac Mini HTPC was connected, ie use TV remote to switch on/off and manually select input. A bit of a nuisance but fool proof.

The volume on the Siri remote still works with the TV/soundbar. It still brings up a spurious volume slider on screen but it's always done this with the Sky remote and it's not enough of an annoyance for me to spend time resolving it.
 
This happens to me fairly often as well. When it happens, I just kill all the apps in the background (by hitting the home button twice and swiping up for each app like on an iPhone/iPad) and then it seems to stay off.
 
Ason12 said:
Hey all,

Just picked up a new Apple TV and I'm super confused. I have the remote set to control my receiver (Yamaha RX-V667) and my TV and every time I put it to sleep it automatically turns off my receiver and TV as it's supposed to. However, after a minute it turns back on and then turns everything else back on as well. I can't figure out for the life of me why.

Any thoughts?
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From the responses you got it looks like most people did not read your post properly. I have no idea what is causing your ATV to keep waking up with no input but guess it could be some sort of interference from another device in the house. HDMI CEC obviously has nothing to do with it.
 
I've noted this in other threads, but it could be the Siri remote that is sending "phantom" taps generated by the touch surface on the remote itself. If such taps can turn devices back on over HDMI-CEC then that could be causing the problem. I've seen evidence of these types of phantom events with my Siri remote as every once in a while the timeline scroll bar will pop up on a video even though I haven't touched the remote.
 
I had this happen to me. My remedy is: menu button out of app to the home screen, then for good measure i press the home button. since then, TV hasn't turned on it's own.
 
Ason12 said:
Hey all,

Just picked up a new Apple TV and I'm super confused. I have the remote set to control my receiver (Yamaha RX-V667) and my TV and every time I put it to sleep it automatically turns off my receiver and TV as it's supposed to. However, after a minute it turns back on and then turns everything else back on as well. I can't figure out for the life of me why.

Any thoughts?
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Same thing is happening to me. Force quitting the YouTube app before putting the Apple TV to sleep seems to solve the problem for me...
 
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I found a pattern when ATV turns on by itself, along with the TV, even though I killed all app, except netflix.

If I turn off ATV while netflix is playing, it will turn itself on. if I stop playing Netflix (still in netflix), then it won't turn on by itself.

so Netflix playing causes it to wake up.
 
Zelerius said:
Same thing is happening to me. Force quitting the YouTube app before putting the Apple TV to sleep seems to solve the problem for me...
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I have noticed identical behavior with my device. It was the YouTube being left active (not even actually playing) that caused the atv to resurrect... I wonder if it can be triggered by other video apps though, considering the poster above has the same type of occurrence with Netflix...
 
Same thing happened to me, killing all apps by double-pressing the home button seemed to remedy the issue. I'm sure this will be patched in the new version.
 
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pkmaximum said:
Same thing happened to me, killing all apps by double-pressing the home button seemed to remedy the issue. I'm sure this will be patched in the new version.
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So far, it's happened to me once. I simply unplugged the ATV 4. Since then, I haven't experienced any further issues.

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This is a nightmare for me. My Apple TV 4 keeps turning itself on late at night, thus turning on my Samsung TV too. Disabling TV control solves the issue but I now miss the ability to turn everything on just using the Siri remote. Not a good implementation in my opinion.
 
daio said:
This is a nightmare for me. My Apple TV 4 keeps turning itself on late at night, thus turning on my Samsung TV too. Disabling TV control solves the issue but I now miss the ability to turn everything on just using the Siri remote. Not a good implementation in my opinion.
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Have you tried force quitting all the active apps (especially video apps) before you shut it down?
 
nebo1ss said:
From the responses you got it looks like most people did not read your post properly. I have no idea what is causing your ATV to keep waking up with no input but guess it could be some sort of interference from another device in the house. HDMI CEC obviously has nothing to do with it.
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I've discovered that when I open iTunes on my computer, it sends an airplay signal to the ATV, thus waking it up and turning on my TV.
 
This happens when I leave a video running in an app that is running in the background/sleep. If I close the apps, the device stops turning itself back on.
 
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