External Process Timeout delay

[MimberyEarth]

Hello, I am trying to sift through the documentation without an example program to guide me, and I am having issues that may just be my device. When I start the external process in-game, my computer lags for a moment. I believe that this is throwing off the timing for the communication mod as it is not getting a "Ready" signal in time. How would I get around this? Can I modify the default timeout period?
My code so far consists of:
import json import sys sys.stdout.write("Ready\n") #sys.stdout.flush() sys.stdout.write("START IRONCLAD 0 4LHFV1BZP8C8D\n") #sys.stdout.flush()

[ForgottenArbiter]

You can use spirecomm as a reference if you're using Python with Communication Mod, or just use spirecomm directly if it suits your needs.

Generally, you will want to wait for a response back from Communication Mod before you send another command. If you send a command before Communication Mod is ready, then it may not have the desired effect. Communication Mod does not currently let you queue commands. When I ran something like your code, which immediately sends a start command before the game is ready, the game crashed. I'll fix that crash, so an error is sent instead.

For debugging, make sure you read the game log (helpfully provided in a window by ModTheSpire) and check communication_mod_errors.log. The game log will show every message received from the external process and has some more information which may be useful for debugging. The other log file I mention captures the stderr of the external process. It's hard for me to say exactly what your issue is here, but hopefully this will get you started. You can change the default timeout (maxInitializationTimeout=20 in the config file makes it 20 seconds), but it feels unlikely that this will help with your specific issue.