From d8790087b4ff0bf7654333f99a2f83e468de76cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Padreug <padreug@aiolabs.dev>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:03:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(admin): wait for a connected relay before the boot DM,
 not a fixed sleep (#48)
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The boot-time admin notification (notifyAdminsOfNewConnection) spun up a
throwaway RelayPool to two external public relays, slept a fixed 2500ms, then
published. Those relays are often slow to connect, so on the aio-demo deploy the
publish failed on boot ("relay not connected: wss://blastr.f7z.xyz; …") — caught
and logged, non-fatal, but noisy every boot.

Poll pool.connectedCount() > 0 up to an 8s cap instead: send as soon as a relay
is up, and still best-effort — fall through and let dmUser log the failure if
none connect in time.

Refs: #48, #45
---
 src/daemon/admin/index.ts | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/daemon/admin/index.ts b/src/daemon/admin/index.ts
index a54ad60..36764bb 100644
--- a/src/daemon/admin/index.ts
+++ b/src/daemon/admin/index.ts
@@ -127,8 +127,15 @@ class AdminInterface {
         const sk = secretKeyBytes(this.adminNsec);
         const pool = new RelayPool(['wss://blastr.f7z.xyz', 'wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com'], {});
         pool.start();
-        // Give the connections a moment to come up before publishing.
-        await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 2500));
+        // Wait until at least one relay is actually connected (capped), rather
+        // than a fixed sleep — these external public relays can be slow to come
+        // up, and a too-short fixed wait made the DM publish fail on boot. Still
+        // best-effort: if none connect in time we fall through and dmUser logs
+        // the publish failure without affecting the daemon. (#48)
+        const deadline = Date.now() + 8000;
+        while (pool.connectedCount() === 0 && Date.now() < deadline) {
+            await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 100));
+        }
 
         for (const npub of this.npubs || []) {
             await dmUser(sk, npub, `nsecBunker has started; use ${connectionString} to connect to it and unlock your key(s)`, pool);