I have experimented with both the enabling and disabling of the tunnel and RTS option, it did not improve the behavior of the box where it would kick you out to the home screen. The best option on the box was not to use automatic but either put it on TS or HLS(M3U) stream format, if the video did not kick in, change to the other option. Having it on automatic for the specific service that I was using, was very frustrating, so found the workaround.
It just happened again tonight with the backup player and stream format at automatic and I was kicked to the home screen 3 times. I duplicated the symptom on the channels called US spectrum where it kicked me out 3 times in less than a minute just by changing the channels. Never was kicked out with HLS or TS selected only.
Could the issue be the libvic player since the player is crashing on that specific stream and selecting the TS or HLS stream format somehow prevents the libvic player from trying to recognize what type of stream it is?
If somebody wants to DM, I can provide the service and a test sub to show that it is more prevalent where it fails, it does behave the same on a few more services but this one specific service, it is more noticeable or I can drop of my box to the queensway location, will need a temp box in lue off.