Turn off Roku Express 4K Status light
Our Roku express has a sensor light, a blue LED. I’ve looked up how to get rid of it, but all instructions don’t apply to the express (one instruction is to go through settings and turn off LED stand...
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Our new Roku Express 4K+ has the power setting to go to sleep 20 minutes after the TV turns off, but it does not. The power indicator stays on all night, even after I verified the power save setting is turned on. Is there a way to correct this?
For the auto power savings, it's really 20 minutes of no activity - which means you shouldn't leave it playing a stream. As far as the TV being on, and switched to the correct input, it seems that sometimes Rokus can tell that, and sometimes they can't. (Speaking of inputs, you could try switching the TV to a different one, and see if the Roku notices.) Also note that anything in between like a splitter/switch might affect this.
If worst comes to worst, a little piece of black electrical tape has probably worked a least a few hundred million times for LED issues. I have several devices with LEDs covered in electrical tape in my field of view right now.
We always press the Home button before turning off the TV, so there's no streaming going on. The older Roku in the other room goes to sleep normally after its 20 minutes, and the one in the basement on an older TV goes off immediately when the TV is turned off, which I assume means that the USB port is not powered unless the TV is on. It's only the new Roku that doesn't sleep, and it is connected to the TV exactly as the older one was, using the same power and HDMI cables.
It's not so much the LED light that bothers me, it's the waste of energy and the fact that the Roku is always warm to hot, which can't be good.
