I know this thread over a year old, but I am having the same issue described here, and was wondering if anyone has found a real solution yet?

As the original poster said, calling executeActions() within the onHold function works, just with nowhere near the responsiveness you get by using a normal action list. I tried increasing the duration of IR code, which it helps slightly, but still not as well as the normal action list.

I have not been able to try the ProntoTeam suggestion using a second version of the code that contains only the repeating portion, because I have no idea how to figure what part of the code that is.