How do you switch it off?

kebosma · #1 August 1st, 2007, 04:00 PM

I bought an Apple TV today (together with a new macbook hehe

) but I can't figure out how to turn it off or to put it into standby mode...

I agree with the thread about the heat generated by apple tv, it's becomming somewhat hotter than the ambient temp. This indicates ate least a some power consumption by the device, and I don't want it to dissipate power when I'm not using it....

Anybody?

icemanjc · #2 August 1st, 2007, 04:31 PM

There is no way to turn it off, but you can put it into Standby mode by holding the Play/Pause button for 6 seconds.

kebosma · #3 August 1st, 2007, 06:49 PM

Ok thx, but do you know how much power it will consume when put into standby mode?

icemanjc · #4 August 1st, 2007, 07:38 PM

i'm not sure, but its from 13-24 watts.

kebosma · #5 August 2nd, 2007, 04:02 AM

That's a lot of power when it's consumed 24 hours a day/ 356 days a year.

I wonder why Apple didn't put an on/off button on the device....

I feel that also in standby mode, the temperature of the Apple TV is rather high, so that indicates that indeed a lot of power is dissipated...

**fryke** · #6 August 2nd, 2007, 05:08 AM

You _can_ simply pull the plug. Whenever I leave the house for more than a day, I'm doing just that. As long as it is used for more than an hour a day, though (and that's most days, anyway), I leave it on standby.

The standby-mode is kind of a strange thing, really, because it's simply still running. It continues to synch, for example, so it's not like a MacBook put to sleep. Maybe they'll implement some kind of sleep-mode in a future update, but it doesn't look like they originally wanted to do that.

But since the device is not _thought_ to be turned off, it's built to last with a little bit of warmth.

icemanjc · #7 August 2nd, 2007, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by fryke

You _can_ simply pull the plug.

Thats what I was thinking, but I don't have one so, I didn't know what would happen if you unplugged it.

**fryke** · #8 August 2nd, 2007, 09:00 AM

Well, I'm not sure what happens really, either. But since there's no way to shutdown the Mac OS X running on it, it's the only way. There's a key-combo to have it restart, but I'm not sure that reboots it gracefully, I think it basically is a reset-function that would do the same thing: Going down hard.