If the controllers are wireless then they probably go to sleep and don't send any button presses to the Pi. If the Pi goes to sleep the controllers won't wake it up.
@vladulkom If you have a problem please open a new topic with details of your set-up. The issue above was related to vram - but this thread is 11 months old.
@jenslyn87 I'm probably the wrong person to ask about it as I'm a bit out of the dev loop with ES but possible it's caching them while you scroll for the first time so it doesn't have as much to reload when you continue scrolling but that's just a guess. I've just always kept my lists small cause full sets just get overwhelming to me.
@dankcushions No, I am not running any videos. @pjft I looked at memory usage via htop several times, and nothing was hogging CPU time or memory. However, I do have new information that changes my prior conclusion that ES was the culprit: the hang did reappear even when ES was not running. I did not see that behavior before because it appears to be taking much longer when ES is not running (on the order of a day instead of a few hours).
Yes it is, because it's supported by every system. But if you got it fixed up, good. But if not, you should try it out with other USB stick instead, so don't yet format your main drive, if it's not going to work in the end.