Thank you for contacting us about the power button on the apple TV! With your Siri Remote (2nd generation or later) or Apple TV Remote (2nd generation or later)*: Press and hold the Power button. The actual Apple TV just sleeps and wakes up. You can achieve the same function with the following settings. 1) Modify the power settings of AppleTV. device edit---power settings-----turn off when not in use 2) Then you can find a new option in the edit menu edit---macro settings for turn on/off Please set the turn on and turn off commands to make Apple TV sleep or awake respectively turn on: add home turn off: add home (press and hold 1s) + ok Once the settings are done, Apple TV will wake up automatically when you open an activity that contains Apple TV, and will sleep automatically when you switch to another activity.