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is your apple tv waking your Mac's display?
i have not been home much in the last week or so, so i only have 2 days of dealing with this issue, but whenever i use my apple tv it is waking my Mac Mini's display. I have one of my hot corners is set to sleep my monitor one is set to start the screensaver. I also have my machine set to ask for password upon wake. I am not sure if the Lion or Apple TV2 update is causing this issue, but frankly it's getting annoying and distracting to have my monitor wake and light up when i'm trying to enjoy a movie or tv show in a darkened room. my monitor will cycle through the following process the entire time i am using the apple tv, it wakes the montior and the log in box appears, after a few minutes with no input the monitor goes back to sleep, then about 1 minute later it re-awakens, the box appears again, and so on...anyone else having this problem or recommend some settings i can check?
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I had a similar experience, but in my case it wasn't the AppleTV but the AppleTV remote - my MackBook Pro was set to listen for the Apple remote (the same one is used by both Macs and the AppleTV), so each time I would use the Apple remote it would wake the MacBook. To stop it I disabled the remote on the MacBook from System Preferences>Security & Privacy>General. Hope this helps.
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yeah i have the same problem, only started doing the past week or so, very annoying
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My guess would be that perhaps your remote has not been paired to your Apple TV and so it is communicating with your Mac as well which is causing the display to wake. Potentially the other issue could be that if you have homesharing turned on whenever your Apple TV is waking up or being used it is communicating to your computer and its home-share library and causing your display to awake.
I haven't noticed this happening to me personally but those are my best guesses.
I haven't noticed this happening to me personally but those are my best guesses.
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