Oh I looked under every rock that I’m technically qualified to explore. Unfortunately there wasn’t a clear root cause or fix that I can suggest. My CPU would spike right after the host became unresponsive (fan would really start going) but prior to that my utilizaton rested around 8% and RAM sat around 1.5gb (out of 4).
Don’t take my word for it, check out this thread: PSA: 2024.7 recorder problems
OP in that thread cites 2 issues. The second of which remains unresolved and I strongly suspect is what caused my shit to grind to a halt. I have a lot of front end customization and use templating to express states in components like custom button card. I’m becoming convinced that 2028.8 is just going nuts and constantly re-evaluating templates, locking the system up and causing it to crash.
That suspicion comes from digging in that thread after exhausting other options to the best of my ability. I found that my host would stay online for hours, but would always shit the bed within minutes of tapping something on one of my wall mounted dashboards.
Thats all I can share. I wish I had more, but that thread is echoed in a few places and kept me sane this weekend. I never had issues like this before the update and rolling back clearly fixed then, system has been online flawlessly since.