roku exits youtube, amazon every 30 mins

Sad to say that I'm done with Roku!  I had a Roku 2 (2720X?) and got several decent years of service out of it.  This last spring (2019), youtube started to crash after 20 to 30 minutes into a video (just stop and go back to the Roku home screen).  I tried all the suggestions in vain, and almost bought a different streaming device, but decided to buy a Roku Express+ this summer.  The Roku Express+ is *much* faster and just a superior experience, and no more youtube exiting to the Roku home screen after 20 - 30 minutes into a video........up until about 3 days ago.  Now my shiny new Roku Express+ *cannot* play any youtube video over about 25 minutes without crashing back to the Roku home screen.  Again, I have done *all* the suggestions (yes, even a reboot between removing the youtube app and re-installing).  The problem persists!

I find this just amazing....I've seen *many* discussions about this issue spanning the last several years, and about 2 months into my new Roku Express+, this youtube crashing after 25 minutes or so is back again.  Youtube *HAS* to be one of the most used Roku channels, yet this problem still persists, after all this time, and now on my brand new device.

Roku, it aint good enough to blame the channel makers on this one.  It's YOUTUBE for goodness sake!!  YOU (Roku) need to get on their A$$ to fix this sht!!! No amount of nobodies like me, doing the youtube "feedback" in the youtube settings app is gonna get youtube to do anything.  Roku, YOU NEED to light the fire or your platform is done.

I'm done with it (soooo glad I wasted even more $$ on a new Roku this summer), and so will all my streamer friends that ask me about what streaming solution I would recommend....

Probably in the top 3 apps with Netflix and Amazon prime, and the youtube app *still* has this issue.  Good luck to  you Roku, but you really should be ashamed.

I have a Roku 1 and amazon and hulu are affected.  Started about a week ago.  Other channels seem fine.  If you pause, rewind, or interact in any way it seems to reset the 30 minute timer.

My Roku 3 has been having issues recently. The YouTube sound will play but no video. I need to press the options (*) bottom and the screen will appear. 

I'm having the exact same issue.  It just started yesterday also and I haven't changed or added anything.

Okay, doing some researching they just did an update and that is why I am now see two new icons which say 'add channel' and ' tv/off'.  I'm guessing there's a glitch in this update.  The question then becomes how long before it's fixed. 

I can confirm that this is not a solved issue.  It is happening on every channel I try to watch (Plex, Amazon, Roku Channel).  Just before the 30 minute mark of watching a show, the Roku resets back to the home screen.  I have disabled the screensaver and any other timeout-based function I can find on the Roku with no success. 

If it helps, the HW/SW details of my Roku are:

Roku Stick model 3600X

SW: 9.2.0 build 4804-24

This stick is powered by the TV, so it goes through a full boot-up process before each viewing session.  It does appear to be tied to some sort of internal timer as I find I can get through an entire show if I make sure to pause every once in a while (before the 30 minute mark).

This is going to sound weird, but you might try fully removing the stick from your TV for a while (to make sure it isn't getting any residual power from the HDMI connection). 

I finally gave up on trying to debug the stick that was giving me this problem.  I ended up using the streaming apps on one of my smart TVs so that I could rotate my other roku devices around a bit and take the problem stick out of service.  The odd thing was that I re-attached the problem stick a day or so later to do some more experimenting, and have been unable to replicate the problem since.  The only thing I can think of is that the HDMI connection was keeping the stick partially alive when the USB power was removed.

I found that Anynet on my Samsung TV is turning the ROKU steaming stick off after ten minutes. However when I turn of Anynet, my sound system receiver won't work but the turn off problem disappears.   When I use my Samsung blue ray player to stream everything works.  The problem is the Samsung blue ray player is very limited  and won't steam popular sites like HULU.  My equipment is obsolete!