# Feature request: Sleep timer **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [August 29, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-sleep-timer/156153 "2016-08-29T21:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-sleep-timer/156153/16 "2018-08-02T10:48:01Z")
A request for the same feature exists already > [@Feature Request - Sleep Timer](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-sleep-timer/72669/1): > > Sleep Timer!   Especially for the Roku app (and presumably PHT & the android TV/Amazon Fire app, if not all of them) it would be awesome to be able to set a sleep timer to match my TV. Currently, If I'm watching a 2 hour movie, and set my sleep timer for 30 minutes, it plays all 2 hours...chewing up bandwidth & leaving me unsure of where i stopped. If I could set a sleep-timer to automatically stop what was currently playing after a fixed time, that would save bandwidth and make viewing the re… Therefore this one is closed. Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of actually voting in the other thread if you still want it. * * * Please **search** before creating a new suggestion thread. Only one feature per thread. See feature suggestions, sorted by **most popular** first [https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions/l/votes](https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions/l/votes) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-sleep-timer/156153)._