Stop a Yoto player at bedtime

A child who wakes at 5 a.m. can start a story on their own. Yoto Limiter watches the player through Yoto's cloud and pauses it outside the hours you choose, even when you are not in the room.

What you need

A Yoto Limiter account with your Yoto player connected. You sign in on Yoto's own page; your Yoto password never reaches this site.
Plus, for allowed hours. The free plan has a daily limit for one player but no allowed hours. See plans and prices.

Set a bedtime

Open the app, choose the player and go to Settings.
Switch on Allowed hours.
Set the times the player may be used, for example 07:00 to 19:30. Outside them it is paused.
Save.

Nothing needs installing on the player. From then on, if it plays after 19:30 it is paused within a few seconds, and paused again if your child presses play.

More than one window

A day can have up to four windows, for example a morning one and an afternoon one with a quiet hour in between. An end that is earlier than the start runs past midnight.

A later bedtime at the weekend

Tick Different hours on some days and give each weekday its own windows. A day with no windows is open all day, whatever the other days say, so leaving Friday and Saturday empty means no bedtime on those nights.

Let the story finish

By default the player is paused the moment bedtime arrives, even mid-story. Turn on Finish the current track when time is up to pause at the end of the track instead. It never plays more than 15 minutes past bedtime: a longer track is paused then. Anything started after the pause is paused at once.

Good to know

Hours follow your household's time zone, taken from the player.
It only works while the player is switched on and online, because the pause goes through Yoto's cloud. Think of it as a helpful guardrail, not a lock. The app warns you when a player can't be reached.
You can pause the player right now from your phone with Pause now, whatever the hours say.
Allowed hours apply to every card. To let a bedtime story stay out of the daily limit, see how to make bedtime stories not count.