how to put apple tv to sleep?

lamonsasa,

The default on the tv is to sleep after 1 hour. So if you didn't turn it off, it will turn itself off after 1 hour. You can change that setting in General > Sleep after > ... The smallest setting is 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, and up...

Hope this helps.

Regards

Edit: Hold the center select button down for 5 seconds and It'll go off.

Message was edited by: captfred

The menu button is the proper one to wake.

Cheers

I too was looking for a way to put the AppleTV (2nd gen) to 'sleep' with the remote. However, pressing and holding the center (round) button in the remote does not accomplish this with iOS 4.1.

Is there any other way to put the AppleTV to sleep with the remote? Thanks!

Is there any other way to put the AppleTV to sleep with the remote?

You must be at the "top" of the menu (i.e., not be in any sub-menu) for pressing/holding the center button to work.

Thanks Jon! That did it! --mike

p.s. Some might wonder why you would want to turn it off an AppleTV, rather than let it sleep on its own. My reason is simple: My audio receiver only has one optical input. So I have a great optical/TOSlink splitter ($6 from parts-express.com) that allows two TOSlink/optical outputs to feed one optical input (the stereo receiver). So in order to switch between my satellite TV receiver and the AppleTV, the other unit must be off, otherwise the receiver can't produce any sound.

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