It really is surprising there's no "sleep" or "stop streaming after xxx minutes" option that you can set in short increments to save bandwidth for those of us who go to sleep with the TV on. I live 55-60 miles from many of my local broadcast stations so I frequently go to sleep with the TV on one of the channels from Hulu Live TV, which uses my bandwidth all night because it doesn't stop streaming when the TV sleep timer kicks in. The Roku having a 4 hour bandwidth saver option is nice but it's too long for a sleep timer during bedtime, so I bought a smart plug I control w/my phone or tablet and set it to turn off 1-1/2 to 2 hours from the time I go to bed. It works in lieu of the Roku having this functionality, but that means I have to book up the Roku each night to use it so it would be nicer if Roku included a a "stop streaming after..." option that you can set in 15 minute increments.
Agreed. It would be far more neater in appearance & actual usage. Too bad it's not likely to happen.
I am totally new at this Roku, received as a present from my daughter, two weeks ago.
I am in no way a technical expert and I am looking for help, in spite of the fact that I have read trough many threads/posts here on this forum.
It is the Roku "Express".
For starters, I need to know: when I am finished watching a movie/show and get out of the Roku/Netflix (for example), how do I know if the "streaming" will continue (or not) and gobbling all my data limits? There is a faint little blueish light on the unit that stays ON for ages, it seems. Where do I have to go in the settings to make sure that it does stop streaming after using it for, let's say, two hours?
Then, I've just found out today that the unit does NOT connect to the 5G Hz, only 2.4 ... that really sucks! But that would be a different topic.
Any comment(s)/suggestion(s) would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance and stay well !
