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Is there a way to stop my devices from sleeping, or at least extend the time before it does?

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February 14, 2022
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It’s very frustrating that I’ll pause a movie or something to then go grab a snack, answer a phone call, and do a few other quick things and like 10 minutes later I hit play and there’s no sound for the next 5-10 seconds while the sonos stuff turns on again. I understand there’s people like me that want things to stay on forever or at least for like an hour or so, and there’s other people that want it to turn off after 1 minute of inactivity, so a setting is certainly the way to go here.

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Best answer by GuitarSuperstar

There isn’t a way to prevent your devices from sleeping or extending the time before they sleep.

FYI…

All Sonos components take 3 minutes to go into idle mode, unless part of a Sonos home theater surround setup. The 3 minutes until idle can be initiated on a surround setup when audio is paused. If pause or mute is not initiated, idle power mode takes 13 minutes for all devices part of a surround setup after the audio signal ceases from the TV.

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/256?language=en_US

buzz

Grand Maestro

Which SONOS components are you using?

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eskimodevAuthor

Contributor I

Which SONOS components are you using?

I put them in the tags, I have a Arc/One/Sub setup in my bedroom and a Playbar/One/Sub setup in my living room.

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GuitarSuperstarAnswer

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There isn’t a way to prevent your devices from sleeping or extending the time before they sleep.

FYI…

All Sonos components take 3 minutes to go into idle mode, unless part of a Sonos home theater surround setup. The 3 minutes until idle can be initiated on a surround setup when audio is paused. If pause or mute is not initiated, idle power mode takes 13 minutes for all devices part of a surround setup after the audio signal ceases from the TV.

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/256?language=en_US

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." - Rashi

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eskimodevAuthor

Contributor I

There isn’t a way to prevent your devices from sleeping or extending the time before they sleep.

FYI…

All Sonos components take 3 minutes to go into idle mode, unless part of a Sonos home theater surround setup. The 3 minutes until idle can be initiated on a surround setup when audio is paused. If pause or mute is not initiated, idle power mode takes 13 minutes for all devices part of a surround setup after the audio signal ceases from the TV.

https://support.sonos.com/s/article/256?language=en_US

I guess my feeling of 10 minutes was fairly close then. Thanks for the info, but it sucks that it can’t be adjusted.

buzz

Grand Maestro

Are the TV’s going into standby? How are you connecting to ARC?

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eskimodevAuthor

Contributor I

I'm using Apple TV's. They don't sleep for 30 minutes of inactivity.

buzz

Grand Maestro

I expect that the AppleTV’s are connected as inputs to the TV‘s and the TV’s are connected to PLAYBAR and ARC. How is the TV connected to ARC?

Which model TV’s are you using?

Stanley_4

Grand Maestro

Maybe try to un-pause for a couple seconds, pause again to let all wake up, then un-pause to watch. Less aggravating than missing a bit of the dialog.

Haven’t tried it here but would changing the volume or mute be enough to wake the Sonos?

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