[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-why-your-roku-can-turn-your-tv-on-and-settings-to-check":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},13150,"why-your-roku-can-turn-your-tv-on-and-settings-to-check","Why Your Roku Can Turn Your TV On, and Settings to Check","A Roku plugged into your TV can wake it through HDMI-CEC, a convenience feature, so the fix usually starts in a couple of settings rather than a repair.","A TV that switches itself on at random may be taking orders from the Roku connected to it, and the cause is usually a setting rather than a fault.\n\nA troubleshooting guide says that if a TV with a Roku attached keeps turning on unprompted, the Roku could be responsible, and the settings menus are the place to look. Two are worth checking first.\n\nThe main suspect is HDMI-CEC, short for Consumer Electronics Control. It is a long-standing part of the HDMI standard that lets connected devices send each other commands such as power on and switch input. Roku puts it under System settings as \"Control other devices (CEC),\" where 1-Touch Play lets the Roku wake the TV whenever the Roku becomes active. Switch that off and the Roku loses its permission to power the TV on. Menu names shift between models and software versions, so expect some hunting.\n\nThe second is Fast TV Start, a power option on Roku-built TVs that keeps the set in a standby state that wakes quickly. It trades a little extra standby power for speed. Turning it off is a sensible second test if CEC alone does not settle things.\n\nThe pattern is familiar. CEC is the feature that lets one remote run a whole stack of gear, and every TV maker ships its own branded version: Samsung calls it Anynet+, LG calls it Simplink, Sony calls it Bravia Sync. The same convenience that makes it useful also lets a streaming box, or a soundbar, power up the TV at an unexpected moment.\n\nThe practical approach is to change one setting at a time. That way you learn which one was responsible, and you know exactly which piece of one-remote convenience you gave up to get a quiet living room.","[\"roku\",\"streaming\",\"hdmi-cec\",\"troubleshooting\"]","2026-11-14T23:45:00.000Z","2026-11-15T05:34:02.576Z","2026-11-15T05:34:56.032Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The source is a two-sentence teaser, so the draft pads it with unsupported speculation about how streaming boxes 'misfire' and what owners do (factory resets, warranty claims), and it contains reporting-gap text ('The portion of the guide available to us does not name those settings', 'the guide's summary does not say'). It also attributes a publication date (November 14) and a 'guide's logic' to the source that the material doesn't support. 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