reqAccountSummary often times out

[thorpep138]

Hey team--

I noticed that when I call reqAccountSummary it often times out, even when I give a timeout of 2 minutes. Does anyone know why this might be? Here is the relevant code snippet:

def get_account_balance_with_timeout(self, timeout):
        # Request account summary
        ib.reqAccountSummary()
        
        # Wait for the account summary update with a timeout
        if not ib.waitOnUpdate(timeout=timeout):  
            raise Exception("Fetching account balance timed out.")

        # Filter for TotalCashBalance
        account_summary = ib.accountSummary()
        for item in account_summary:
            if item.tag == 'TotalCashBalance' and item.currency == 'USD':
                return item.value

        return None

[thorpep138]

@erdewit

[thorpep138]

When I set the timeout to 10 seconds it also sometimes works and sometimes doesn't:

[gsy1xy]

don't install the latest version of TWS. Try it with TWS version:10.19