Anyone ever had a TV switch itself on?

[Jer_1974]

Got woken up this morning by my bedroom TV switching itself on at 6:45. TV's gets kept on standby so not totally switched off. This was a 7 year old Panasonic TV but last year a Samsung TV in the living room did the same thing in the middle of the night with the volume full blast twice. I was seriously ill in hospital at the time so totally freaked my wife out. It's a new build house and apart from hearing a breakfast bar stool getting dragged along the floor one night and my wife screaming about an old guy standing next to the bed every few months I don't get any bad feelings about the house.

[texaxile]

I've had a plasma turn itself on, as well as my PC. The TV was during the daytime for no reason and the PC at night. both are left plugged in and on standy, I put it down to a power surge. The house is 11 years old now but other than that we've had no "gremlins" so to speak.

[dudleybloke]

If you look on historic maps you will see that your house is built on top on an ancient indian burial ground.
Burn a priest to be on the safe side.

[SantaBarbara]

Is it a Smart TV?

[anonymous-user]

Jer_1974 said:

my wife screaming about an old guy standing next to the bed every few months

say what?

[HTP99]

Happened occasionally at my dad's, however lots of weird st happened there; pictures moved, lights came on, my bedroom in the new extension was always the coldest room in the house (no matter how high the heating was), the shower in the en-suite in the extension used to turn itself on, the dog would refuse to go upstairs, sometimes you could feel a presence!

[SantaBarbara]

The Landladies daughter said that I turned her on

[stuartmmcfc]

SantaBarbara said:

The Landladies daughter said that I turned her on

That’s ironic, she told me that you turned her right off.

[jmorgan]

Turn it off at the mains, like to see a
spook work that one out.

[Cold]

[cologne2792]

My Dad is a retired TV engineer and he had a few rental sets that used to switch off for no apparent reason.
It was always in the Autumn and always in the afternoon when the Sun was shining on the front of the TV.
It was eventually discovered that the infra red " noise " in the sunlight was exactly same as the infra red " noise " generated by the remote OFF button.

Could easily work the other way so it could be what's switching TVs on from standby...

[Jer_1974]

dudleybloke said:

If you look on historic maps you will see that your house is built on top on an ancient indian burial ground.
Burn a priest to be on the safe side.

House is built very near an old castle which has seen lots of bloody action.

eezeh said:

say what?

She starts this blood curdling scream then goes on about some random person in old clothes standing next to the bed. She's done it for years and in other houses so I have just put it down to an over active imagination. Seems to be half a sleep when she does it but it still freaks me out especially when I get woken up from a deep sleep.

[Jer_1974]

SantaBarbara said:

Is it a Smart TV?

No.

[anonymous-user]

A good friend had this happen in a hotel. He was the only guest as it was Christmas and not the sort of place you holiday. It was followed by something pulling his covers off the bed... very odd. He didn’t have a nice night!

[stuartmmcfc]

[drainbrain]

Ours have done this. Not for a while tho'.

I always just assumed it was ghosts.

(and I'm sure there's at least two that you can switch on/off by waving at them (?) so perhaps it just happens when a ghost is passing through the room).

[98elise]

Some TV's automatically turn on if a connected device sends the right signal.

Our bedroom TV occasionally turns on at night and I suspect it's the Chromecast triggering it as it's powered from the mains rather than a USB socket.

If your TV has this feature try disabling it.

[steveatesh]

Minbes doing this a lot at the moment which I have put down to the Amazon box attached to it. No idea whats causing it to switch the TV on mind!

[alorotom]

Yes all the time. We have a Toshiba smart tv in the master bedroom that’s been demoted from the lounge and if it connects to the WiFi it then sets its own clock and then randomly turns on and off throughout any 24hr period ... only way to stop it is to keep it ‘dumb’ and disconnected from the internet - very odd it is

[Zad]

It could be anything from a faulty internal power supply (the capacitors degrade over time, causing voltage variations) bad software in the controller, a "dry" solder joint on the printed circuit board... Pretty much anything but ghosts.

It sounds like the TV cools down at night and breaks a connection, either solder or one internal to a chip, causing it to lose settings and reboot. Hence turning on and whacking the volume up.