[bolmsted]

Why is that the 'OpenELEC' menu under System takes forever to open or it just doesn't open? Is it timing out on some network setting or something? All of the other menus are responsive except for this section. I'm going to try reinitializing my OpenELEC install from within Kodi if it will let me get in there and rebuild as some of my plugins don't seem to be working now

I've noticed this behaviour for quite a while and I have the box wired in to Ethernet. I thought this was the case with wifi with bootup with hanging NFS mount but now it seems even these menus are hanging for some reason.

Ideas?

sounds like you upgraded from 4.2.1 to 5.0.0. While some might not have issues, there's a reason the OE folks recommend a fresh install. I had an issue with the OE network page being blank on a box I upgraded, fortunately deleting the add-on data cleared it up. I'd recommend you try that first, and if it doesn't work, then to do a hard reset.

I think I found out what the problem is but I have to further narrow it down for sure but it looks like the Watchdog addon is interfering with my OpenELEC box as the menus for System->OpenELEC were unresponsive but other menus were fine and also the plugins were not working properly.

I may have to look at plugging my NAS directly into the same router that has my OpenELEC box as far as slower performance over wifi on some of the videos but usually it has been fine so perhaps just higher bitrate stuff... but we are looking at moving possibly this year so perhaps setup at new place would be best. I didn't think that streaming typical HD content like TV or Movies over wifi N network via a WDS link would be a big deal as we are typically only about 20Mbps for HD content and Wifi N is usually 100+Mbps. I may look at positioning the 2nd router on the other side of my computer on the desk that is 25 feet away from the router for more line of site to see if the reception is better between the two?

I'll have to look into this a bit more... thoughts?


EDIT: nope no upgrade from 4.2.x to 5.0.x as I just installed Kodi 14.0 on the OpenELEC installation on an ASUS Chromebox in January

Thanks for the help Matt.