topic Re: Power on behaviour in Android TV

Power on behaviour

OneEyedJack — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:55:01 GMT

I've just bought Sony XR-55A80K and wondered if anyone has issues with the "power on behaviour" setting. I've set it to "last used input" which should mean that when the TV is switched on it will display TV channel (as this is last used input and TV was switched off from TV channel). Problem is that it always displays home page. I've set it multiple times to "last used input" but it always displays the home page. I've reported to Sony and gone through all the steps such as "reset to factory settings" but this is a brand new TV which I've only just taken delivery of and set up. If this is a known problem I'd expect Sony to just tell me that it doesn't really work but am reaching out to community for any real world examples of it working/not working.

Re: Power on behaviour

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:41:40 GMT

I think that's not how it works! Last input means that the last external HDMI input you were using, for example ''Sky box, Xbox, PS5, Virgin box, Amazon Firestick''. If you're using an HDMI input that's where the TV will go, to that last input you were using.
And if you get it to TV, then TV will switch on to the home page for the Sony TV. So none of the options will allow the TV to switch on and go directly to a TV channel.

Re: Power on behaviour

OneEyedJack — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:54:15 GMT

Sony says, in one of their articles, "You can change the TV startup behaviour to Last input if you prefer your TV to power on with the last watched TV channel or external input instead."

This seems to contradict what you said in your reply and when I reported issue to Sony they didn't correct my understanding...well not yet anyway!

Re: Power on behaviour

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:04:41 GMT

Then let's wait till you get the final resolution from them, maybe that would help make things clear, cheers!

Re: Power on behaviour

LightFoot — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:51:55 GMT

Hi @OneEyedJack A95K on v6.5954 the Power on behaviour does exactly what it says on the tin. If I am watching TV then it returns to TV when turning on again out of Standby. The same for all other Inputs (HDMI1-4) and Home Screen.

Re: Power on behaviour

OneEyedJack — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:05:19 GMT

Thanks for confirming my understanding.

Re: Power on behaviour

Piscie — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:49:15 GMT

Hey @OneEyedJack, keep us updated with the final outcome please.

Re: Power on behaviour

OneEyedJack — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:53:43 GMT

Will do, my case had been escalated to the technical team at Sony.

Re: Power on behaviour

OneEyedJack — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:28:49 GMT

Sony have washed their hands of this issue; here's their response:

"This feature is controlled by Google. The current options are:
- Home screen
- Last input: HDMI source or TV broadcast input.
Please refer to Google support."

I will try Google!

Re: Power on behaviour

OneEyedJack — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:52:39 GMT

Reply from Sony:

"This feature is controlled by Google. The current options are:

- Home screen

- Last input: HDMI source or TV broadcast input.

Please refer to Google support."

Off to Google now....if anyone uses the power on behaviour I'd be interested to know if it works for them or not.

Re: Power on behaviour

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:11:44 GMT

It would be interested to see what Google has to say about it! But so far the literal translation for the feature is that it will either go to the last input, or the home screen.

Re: Power on behaviour

kjh18091 — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:08:17 GMT

Hi, I have just purchased the XR55A95K and have the same issue so would be interested to know what the outcome is. I have set to last input, exited settings, powered down and then back up again after a few seconds and it has powered up to the last TV channel but try this again after a few minutes and it goes back to powering up to the home screen.

Re: Power on behaviour

Piscie — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:39:33 GMT

Hello @kjh18091, as far as I understand and as per the above thread, this feature isn't responsible to get the last watched channel, yet it's supposed to get the last HDMI input used (such as Home page which is the regular TV channels, or another HDMI connected device)

So if the last input were regular TV channels, the TV will switch on to the Home page. If the last input was Virgin Sky box for example, the TV will turn on to this input, etc.

Re: Power on behaviour

kjh18091 — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 11:05:29 GMT

There are two sources of regular TV channels, there is 'Live TV and Catchup' on the home page which is the 'YouView' app basically, and then there is the straightforward 'Digital TV' channels. If you select 'Source' you are presented with a set of tiles depicting the various inputs, this includes one for 'TV' and if selected it will give an option between standard 'digital' channels and 'live TV and catchup' channels, select which one you want and it will ask if you want to use this source once or always.

Re: Power on behaviour

Piscie — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:56:32 GMT

@kjh18091, so the "Last input used" feature used to get you the last input whether it was live TV channel or Catchup app? and when did it stop?

Also have you checked if your TV software is up to date?

Re: Power on behaviour

nickmaddison — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 20:29:10 GMT

New XR-48A90K with up to date software in UK, when selecting ‘power on behaviour’ ‘Google TV home screen’ or ‘Last used input’ are the only choices, I hoped it would return to the channel last watched but it seems not to be the case, only hope an update might address this

Re: Power on behaviour

nickmaddison — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:51:30 GMT

Did a power reset to try getting TV mic to respond to OK Google and now when powered off for more than 30 sec It powers back on to the last TV channel when turned off, ALL Good, that said OK Goole another matter ......

Re: Power on behaviour

LightFoot — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:22:01 GMT

Hi @nickmaddison Have you turned on the microphone switch at the back. I also find that using the microphone on the remote first gives you a chance to agree to the privacy settings and permissions.

Re: Power on behaviour

nickmaddison — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:34:31 GMT

LightFoot

Thanks have turned Mic switch off and on. the yellow LED on TV responses as expected but OK Google not available/working , remote mic behaves as expected but no permission there or in the privacy menu settings will keep trying

Re: Power on behaviour

nickmaddison — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:24:29 GMT

Spoke too soon

Power on behaviour, If I go to Google Home page ‘home’ and from there pick an app and turn TV off when you restart after 30 sec it will open the Google home page.

If you pick from the ‘select input menu’ button with ‘right arrow into box’ then turn off wait 30 sec turn on it then it opens ‘TV’ digital

For a while with ’YouView’ selected (live TV and catch up) from ‘select input menu’ it would close and open ’YouView’ same channel with ‘off and on’ but even that seems to have stopped working now