Random Pauses in Main Menu

I am running 11.0.2 on a RPi4, with the default skin.

My PVR client connects to a TV Headend backend on a remote computer. The OS boots off a USB 3.0 flash drive.

One problem that has crept in over the past few months is that when browsing the main menu (for example between TV/Movies/Music etc) there will be a sudden pause for about 30 seconds where multiple keypresses (eg the arrow keys) will be ignored, and then after 30 seconds or so all the keypresses will be registered all at once.

Playback via TV, videos, Youtube is flawless. It is just when I return to the main menu this randomly happens. It doesn't always happen so it's hard for me to capture logs, but when it does, it is incredibly frustrating having to wait for 30 seconds or so for it resume again.

Has anyone experienced this before or have a suggestion of what I can try?

I have another RPI4 in another room, identical OS and Add-ons and that works fine, except that runs off the microsd card.

I really want to avoid reinstalling the OS as I have been using it since 11.0.0 and apart from this issue I have it setup perfectly.

will do. i suspect it's related to my headend pvr cllient and it pauses when trying to refresh the tv guide data, will try and run a few tests with it disabled and see if it happens. regardless will capture logs. thx

I had 3rd party video addons for PlutoTV, Stirr, Plex and Samsung TV plus, which bumped up my TV channel list to over a thousand channels as well as the TV guide via the Merge IPTV addon.

Anyway removing most of these from the TV Channel list and TV Guide has improved performance (most were crap anyway).

I suspect the constant TV guide updates in the background were the culprit, with so many channels and TV guide data to ingest.

For what's its worth I've reverted back to booting natively off micro ssd again and so far so good. Marking as resolved