Custom timeouts to bridge request to prevent timeout on Pi3B

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
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+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Added custom timeouts to bridge request to prevent timeout on Pi3B (#9)
+
 ## [1.4.1] - 2026-03-13
 
 ### Fixed

src/adminui/hostbridge.py

@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@
 from http import HTTPStatus
 
 import httpx
+from httpx import Timeout
 
 from adminui.constants import BRIDGE_SOCKET
 
+# increasing httpx default (5s) as processing on host can be slow on older devices
+DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = Timeout(timeout=20.0)
+
 
 @dataclass
 class BridgeResponse:
@@ -46,9 +50,11 @@ def __init__(self):
         # custom transport over UDS
         self.transport = httpx.HTTPTransport(uds=str(BRIDGE_SOCKET))
 
-    def do_request(self, path: str) -> BridgeResponse:
+    def do_request(
+        self, path: str, timeout: Timeout = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
+    ) -> BridgeResponse:
         try:
-            with httpx.Client(transport=self.transport) as client:
+            with httpx.Client(transport=self.transport, timeout=timeout) as client:
                 response = client.get(f"{self.api_url}{path}")
 
                 if response.status_code != 200:
@@ -82,7 +88,10 @@ def request_restart(self, after_seconds: int) -> BridgeResponse:
     def request_service_toggle(self, name: str, enable: bool) -> BridgeResponse:
         """enable (not start) systemd service"""
         action = "enable" if enable else "disable"
-        return self.do_request(path=f"/toggle-service/{action}/{name}")
+        return self.do_request(
+            path=f"/toggle-service/{action}/{name}",
+            timeout=Timeout(timeout=20.0, read=60.0),
+        )
 
     def request_service_enabled(self, name: str) -> BridgeResponse:
         return self.do_request(path=f"/service-is-enabled/{name}")