Afaik, the ATV hardware doesn't have ACPI, or at least it doesn't work correctly. But as far as I remember, my my Leopard image should have proper working sleep and wake up. But I think, only the harddisk and the video out is shutdown.

It does. What it's lacking is a power supply that is capable of being told to sleep and wake. It's either on or off by the power plug.

I'd really like to know why Apple made such a big mistake. I know that (us) americans are not really fond of saving power, but hey come on, a little on/off switch should be worth the 20 cents it would cost. ;-)

Originally Posted by ash

I'd really like to know why Apple made such a big mistake. I know that (us) americans are not really fond of saving power, but hey come on, a little on/off switch should be worth the 20 cents it would cost. ;-)

True that... The whole plan is to get frontrow in my car.. I love the interface.

I'd just use a mac-mini but that plus a carnetix powersupply will be $500+. I've had this apple tv forever and never use it.. sigh.

Best thing for you, imho, would be to use the normal ATV OSX + an on/off switch between your atv power cord and the power supply.

If you'll want to watch movies (hopefully not while driving ;-)), just push the on button and wait the 40 secs needed for boot-up.

Ash-

That would be useless... Not only waiting for boot-up ,but every time it boots up it's not in the same position.

I'd have to select what I wanted to play all over again!

The ATV OSX has a standby option in the Settings menu - maybe this would help. But I don't know if the ATV goes into sleep mode automatically, or if you'd have to select it manually.

Originally Posted by ash

The ATV OSX has a standby option in the Settings menu - maybe this would help. But I don't know if the ATV goes into sleep mode automatically, or if you'd have to select it manually.

The apple tv has a "pseudo" sleep mode, meaning everything stays powered up and the CPU goes into a low power mode. If the hard drive went to sleep it would be perfect, but it doesn't. Makes no sense!

This can be accomplished by holding the play/pause button down on the remote as well for several seconds.

"CPU goes into a low power mode", not really The AppleTV Sleep Mode will sleep the Display and that's all. Power usage is the same according to my kill-a-watt and everything else is alive and kicking. ssh in and check top, nothing different to see here, move along.

Originally Posted by davilla

"CPU goes into a low power mode", not really The AppleTV Sleep Mode will sleep the Display and that's all. Power usage is the same according to my kill-a-watt and everything else is alive and kicking. ssh in and check top, nothing different to see here, move along.

Fair enough, you're right.

Anyway... Ash I've got your image on my aTV now and still when I put it to sleep, it won't wake up. I hear the HD spin up but that's it.

ho hum...