Issues turning on the Roku Ultra
I just hooked up my Roku Ultra from the black Friday 69.99 sale. This is the only one out of 4 Roku devices I'm having issues with when it comes to turning it on. Because its on its own power sourc...
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The Power button and the Volume button/Mute button on the Roku remote are "TV controls". They have no effect on the Roku device. The Roku devices really never turn off, they enter a sleep mode. The Home button is used to "wake up" the Roku devices.
With your Streaming Sticks, likely your USB ports power down when you are turning off your TV using the power button. Depending on how long it takes for your TV to boot up, you may be seeing the Roku logo on the Streaming Sticks when they are booting up. (if you connected the Streaming Sticks directly to wall power, you would not see the Roku boot up logo. You would just be at the Home Screen.)
Keep in mind that if you do not press the Home button when you are finished streaming, and simply press the Power button, the device will continue to stream away in the background using data. (until screensaver or bandwidth saver kicks in if enabled in Settings. Or if the new Power Savings feature/20-min inactivity feature is enabled under the Power Settings in newer Roku models.)
If you look closer at the behavior of your Streambar, you should be seeing the same thing.
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Normal/expected behavior for your Roku devices.
1. Use the Power button to power on/off the TV.
2. Use the Home button to wake up Roku device. Also remember to use the Home button to return to Home Screen when finished streaming.
3. Enabled Bandwidth Saver in Settings/Network/Bandwidth Saver/[On], to automatically stop streaming after 4hrs if no user input/activity. (ie. fall asleep, forget to return to Home Screen, etc).
4. Disable Power Savings Feature in Settings/System/Power/Power Savings/Automatic Power Savings/20-min inactivity unless you need this enabled for some reason. Causes some unwanted behaviors on various Roku devices.
5. If you enable HDMI CEC on your TV, and enable Roku's CEC 1-touch Play feature in Settings/System/Control other Devices, then pressing the Home button will simultaneously turn on your TV, switch/activated the appropriate HDMI input, and wake up the Roku device. Again, need to press the Power button on the Roku remote to turn off TV. Also remember to press the Home button to stop streaming before turning off TV.
Roku Ultra has a blinking red light and is unresponsive. I have unplugged the HDMI cable and also the power cord. In the past I have had to unplug the power cord to reboot the unit to make it work. Any sugestions or is the unit junk? Won't buy another one. Using a free Chromecast now.
4swalton wrote:Roku Ultra has a blinking red light and is unresponsive. I have unplugged the HDMI cable and also the power cord. In the past I have had to unplug the power cord to reboot the unit to make it work. Any suggestions or is the unit junk? Won't buy another one. Using a free Chromecast now.
The Chromecast has its pros and cons, but I won't make any case for or against it.
As for your Roku, you didn't state what version of Ultra it is. Unfortunately Roku reuses the same name on multiple versions (currently at seven different versions), and we need to know which one you have. The problem might be with the power supply (the cube that plugs into the wall), with the HDMI cable, or yes the unit itself might be defective. Knowing what model number you have would point to it possibly just failing from age. The first version of the Ultra is now over seven years old, and it might simply be failing.
As mentioned before, Rokus don’t normally turn off, so I think the problem you are having is that for some reason, your combination of Ultra, cable, and TV leads to an HDCP error in certain situations. I don’t know why that is. (Possibly something deep down in the spec that would need the designers of the Roku and the TV to figure out.)
Normally, when I want to watch the Roku, I just change to HDMI 4 and see “no signal” since I let the Roku go to sleep. (Oh and I have HDMI-CEC turned off everywhere.) Then I just press Home on the Roku remote and all is well. I’ve also tried turning the power saver off, and then the Roku is just sitting there waiting when I switch to its input. This is essentially no different than watching any other source for me – select input, then possibly turn it on (some devices) or wake it up (some devices). But none of my device combinations happen to produce an HDCP error which makes life easier.
