Why does ATV turn on by itself?

[jwolf6589]

Went out this morning and came back to my room and my ATV 4K had turned on by itself. This also happened with my old HD ATV sometimes. Why does ATV do this sometimes?

 

[hg.wells]

It shouldn’t, unless someone on your network is accidentally air-playing to it.

 

[jwolf6589]

It shouldn’t, unless someone on your network is accidentally air-playing to it.

Possible

 

[Edd70]

If you live in an apartment building I can easily see it happening. Single family home would be weird.

 

[bozzykid]

If you live in an apartment building I can easily see it happening.

You can disable access in the Apple TV settings so that doesn't happen. This issue is just as likely an issue with HDMI-CEC on the TV waking up the Apple TV.

 

[jwolf6589]

You can disable access in the Apple TV settings so that doesn't happen. This issue is just as likely an issue with HDMI-CEC on the TV waking up the Apple TV.

How do I do this?

 

[bozzykid]

How do I do this?

Turn off "Also Allow Nearby to AirPlay" in the Airplay settings. And if you have other people on your network you don't want to have access, only allow access to people sharing this home.

 

[waw74]

if you have third party airplay speakers, and set up a scene in homekit to play music to them. One of your homekit hubs will wake up to send music to those speakers. For a HomePod this isn't really noticable, But for some reason the aTV feels it needs to fully wake itself and the TV up to do it. But you have no choice over which device will take over.

so "Candlelit Dinner" scene, 2 devices in the scene, the dining room light set to a dim level, and the sonos speaker playing a jazz playlist from Apple Music.
When you run the scene, there's a good chance the TV in the other room will turn itself on when you do.

 

[w5jck]

Unfortunately you don’t control your Wi-Fi network since it belongs to your landlord, so you can’t hide the ATV 4K via the router settings. Anyone one on that network can see your ATV 4K, and any other devices you have connected to it, and you can see theirs as well. Occasionally someone might accidentally choose your ATV 4K for some reason when it pops up in a list of available items.

Also check to see if you have automatic updates turned on in the settings. Settings —>System —> Software Updates —> Automatically Update Off. It can take a week or more after an update for the automatic update to occur, and we had the 15.5.1 update not long ago, so perhaps an automatic update awakened the ATV 4K.

Also you can’t rule out that another remote from someone else in the house might accidentally trigger your ATV 4K and awaken it.