Vizio Soundbar going to unavailable state, regularly

[misty moss]

I have a Vizio speaker bar that Seems to revert to an unavailable state every time I interact with it. I am able to get it connected, but as soon as an automation powers it on or off or some time in the future after I have successfully added it, it reverts to going to unavailable. This has been going on for several versions of HA now.
Whenever I notice that the speaker bar has gone 'unavailable' I remove the speaker bar from HA, Power off the speaker, unplug....plug it back in, turn it on, re-add it and it's fine for a while, then within a day or so, it's back to being 'unavailable' again.

I have a Cat 6 connection on the speaker bar, so the connection should be stable.

I see the following messages in the logs....

Logger: homeassistant.components.vizio.media_player
Source: components/vizio/media_player.py:203
integration: VIZIO SmartCast (documentation, issues)
First occurred: October 11, 2025 at 5:10:37 AM (14 occurrences)
Last logged: October 11, 2025 at 10:57:47 PM

Restored connection to 192.168.1.140:7345
Restored connection to 192.168.1.114

Logger: homeassistant.helpers.entity
Source: helpers/entity.py:1284
First occurred: October 11, 2025 at 9:40:20 PM (28 occurrences)
Last logged: October 11, 2025 at 10:57:50 PM

Update of media_player.vizio_speaker is taking over 10 seconds

(This one has to do with an automation running to turn the speaker bar on)
Logger: homeassistant.components.media_player
Source: helpers/entity_platform.py:1113
integration: Media player (documentation, issues)
First occurred: October 11, 2025 at 9:45:40 PM (10 occurrences)
Last logged: October 11, 2025 at 10:58:10 PM

Updating vizio media_player took longer than the scheduled update interval 0:00:30

Logger: homeassistant.components.vizio.media_player
Source: components/vizio/media_player.py:196
integration: VIZIO SmartCast (documentation, issues)
First occurred: October 11, 2025 at 5:09:16 AM (15 occurrences)
Last logged: October 11, 2025 at 10:58:48 PM

Lost connection to 192.168.1.140:7345
Lost connection to 192.168.1.114

At this point, I feel i have exhausted all options that I am able to try here, I have been remedying this myself for months at this point and within a day or so, it's back to the same 'unavailable state', is this a bug? Something else I can check on my end?