Took user restrictions off starting race reporting. Tried to improve sql writes to fix db locking error.

RobottasSignalr.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import logging
 import requests
 import time
 import sqlite3
+import sys
 
 from fastf1.signalr_aio import Connection
 
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ class SignalRClient:
                        "SessionData", "LapCount"]
 
         self.debug = debug
+        self._db_is_open = False
         self.filename = filename
         self.filemode = filemode
         self.timeout = timeout
@@ -91,7 +93,8 @@ class SignalRClient:
 
         if not logger:
             logging.basicConfig(
-                format="%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s: %(message)s"
+                format="%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s: %(message)s", \
+                stream=sys.stderr
             )
             self.logger = logging.getLogger('SignalR')
         else:
@@ -107,11 +110,17 @@ class SignalRClient:
         """
         #print(msg)
         con = sqlite3.connect('messages.db')
-        cur = con.cursor()
-        cur.execute("insert into messages (message) values(?)", (msg,))
-        con.commit()
-        cur.close()
-        con.close()
+
+        try:
+            with con:
+                self._db_is_open = True
+                con.execute("insert into messages (message) values(?)", (msg,))
+            con.close()
+            self.db_is_open = False
+        except:
+            if con is not None:
+                con.close()
+            self._db_is_open = False
 
     async def _on_do_nothing(self, msg):
         # just do nothing with the message; intended for debug mode where some
@@ -186,7 +195,9 @@ class SignalRClient:
                          f"[v{fastf1.__version__}]")
         await asyncio.gather(asyncio.ensure_future(self._supervise()),
                              asyncio.ensure_future(self._run()))
-        self._output_file.close()
+        #self._output_file.close()
+        while(self._db_is_open):
+            asyncio.sleep(1)
         self.logger.warning("Exiting...")
 
     def start(self):