IB Native python API

Has anyone managed to get this working? The documentation isn't great unfortunately but its a similar idiom to the swigibpy wrapper I've been using up to now (which is just a wrapper for the C++ code)

When I run the following (basic time telling example, equivalent of this):

gist.github.com/robcarver17/fffc03143fcdb8039ffff6cbd78e13cc

(Sorry I haven't put the actual link in because the forum software keeps resolving it to a media tag)

It all seems to work... and then it doesn't.

Code:
serverVersion:101 connectionTime:b'20170307 16:59:57 Greenwich Mean Time'
app.speaking_clock()
Getting the time...
Exceeded maximum wait for wrapper to respond
0


(logs from IB Gateway):

Code:
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [2147483647:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Started reading message:
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: Start API message, ClientID=10
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [2147483647:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished reading message:
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [2147483647:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] cf::[version=2]
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [2147483647:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] [2;10;null]
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [2147483647:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Start validating message:
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [2147483647:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished validating message:
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [2147483647:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Started processing message:
MQ 16:59:58:298 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:15:1:INFO] Sending list of managed accounts.
MQ 16:59:58:299 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:15:1:DET] [15;1;DU15118]
MQ 16:59:58:299 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:15:1:INFO] Sent the list of managed accounts.
MQ 16:59:58:299 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:9:1:INFO] Sending next valid order id.
MQ 16:59:58:299 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:9:1:DET] [9;1;1]
MQ 16:59:58:299 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:9:1:INFO] Next valid order id sent.
MQ 16:59:58:299 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished processing message:
MQ 16:59:59:300 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:INFO] Handling incoming StartApi message.
MQ 16:59:59:300 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Started reading message:
MQ 16:59:59:300 JTS-EServerSocket-127: Start API message, ClientID=10
MQ 16:59:59:300 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished reading message:
MQ 16:59:59:301 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] cf::[version=2]
MQ 16:59:59:301 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] [2;10;null]
MQ 16:59:59:301 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Start validating message:
MQ 16:59:59:301 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished validating message:
MQ 16:59:59:301 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Started processing message:
MQ 16:59:59:301 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:15:1:INFO] Sending list of managed accounts.
MQ 16:59:59:301 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:15:1:DET] [15;1;DU15118]
MQ 16:59:59:302 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:15:1:INFO] Sent the list of managed accounts.
MQ 16:59:59:302 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:9:1:INFO] Sending next valid order id.
MQ 16:59:59:302 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:9:1:DET] [9;1;1]
MQ 16:59:59:302 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:9:1:INFO] Next valid order id sent.
MQ 16:59:59:302 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished processing message:
MQ 17:00:03:307 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:INFO] Handling incoming ReqCurrentTime message.
MQ 17:00:03:307 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Started reading message:
MQ 17:00:03:307 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished reading message:
MQ 17:00:03:307 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] me::[version=1]
MQ 17:00:03:308 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Start validating message:
MQ 17:00:03:308 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished validating message:
MQ 17:00:03:308 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Started processing message:
MQ 17:00:03:308 JTS-EServerSocket-127: [10:101:101:1:0:0:0:DET] Finished processing message:

all looks fine ... but the wrapper currentTime never seems to get called.

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