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[Joansz]

We had the same problem. The tv turned on around 3 am while we were asleep. Woke us up. This happened twice. We are in our own home with no line of sight from anywhere else so I think it's a command coming over the internet.

[Mz2hot]

Alexa or Siri may be the culprit.  I have another Roku connected to my Alexa but sometimes I am lazy and I say Alexa “turn on the tv” but nothing happens in the room I am in.  I quickly remember to say Alexa “turn the Master Bedroom Roku on and the tv comes on.  The days later I notice the tv is on in the other room.  I didn’t put it together until today when I decided to check to see if the tv was in fact connected to the Alexa. I said the command and went into the other room and sure enough the power came on.  Long Story Short Check your home automation.

[lesmikesell]

Likewise if you use the roku app on your phone and have multiple devices, just selecting the wrong one will power it on even if you don't hit the power button.

[Joansz]

Nope. Firstly, I don't have it on any other device, always use the remote. Secondly, we were asleep both times the TV connected to the Roku input (instead of cable), turned on and woke us up.

[Joansz]

Don't have a Siri or Alexa or any other such device. I don't feel like connecting all my electronic devices--single point of failure and all that.

[boogernose]

@Joansz  maybe you were snoring or passing gas loudly in your sleep.

That happened to me once.

[Joansz]

Wow, I had no idea that I was so powerful.

[SpiritWolfNJ]

I have the same problem since the update for HomeKit/Airplay (which I use).

In this case, the Streaming Stick+ fires up my old DLP w/o my asking it to; it's on another floor in another room.

I'm at a loss knowing how to defeat this issue; DLPs have lamps with limited hours (consumables) and this is costing me.

BTW: over 25 time with the I AM NOT A ROBOT verifier?? What the (place expletive here)

[Jen5 · Accepted solution]

Hey my tv was doing this yesterday. I went into the settings and found restart. So I restarted the tv and it hasn't happened since. 

[xarmian]

My TCL Roku TV (55") started turning on in the middle of the night as well a few weeks ago. It did it again last night, also at around 3am. In Settings->Sytem->System update I can see that it checked for an update at 3:13am. My theory right now is that the TV is turning on in the middle of the night to check for an update, not finding one, and then sitting on the home screen until it times out.