[BUG]Websocket times-out spontaneously in Django channels chat room

[alphaveneno]

Describe the bug/A short description of the bug.

Django project with chatroom, employs django-valkey, valkey, & channels[daphne]

When the chatroom has been open for exactly 5 seconds, the web-socket disconnects spontaneously ( no input required)

DevTools console: 6/:88 Chat socket closed unexpectedly

Code snippet from python3.13/sitepackages/valkey/asyncio/connection.py lines 554-559:

        """Read the response from a previously sent command"""
        read_timeout = timeout if timeout is not None else self.socket_timeout
        host_error = self._host_error()

PROBLEM RESOLVES if these two lines are added by me at this point :

        read_timeout = None 
        self.protocol = 3

lines 561 - 566 ( for additional context)

        try:
            if (
                read_timeout is not None
                and self.protocol in ["3", 3]
                and not LIBVALKEY_AVAILABLE
            ):

In its uncorrected state, the value of self.protocol is 2, the value of read_timeout is 5 (seconds), explaining the automatic timeout.

LIBVALKEY_AVAILABLE is always = object()

Other possibly pertinent code snippets from settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # Daphne must be at the start of the list
    'daphne',
    
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

    # 3rd party apps
    'embed_video',
    'debug_toolbar',
    'django_valkey',
    'rest_framework',

    # local apps
    'courses.apps.CoursesConfig',
    'chat.apps.ChatConfig',
    'students.apps.StudentsConfig',
]

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django_valkey.cache.ValkeyCache',
        'LOCATION': 'valkey://127.0.0.1:6379',
        'OPTIONS': {
            'CLIENT_CLASS': 'django_valkey.client.DefaultClient',
            # Optional extras:
            # 'PASSWORD': 'your-valkey-password',
            # 'SERIALIZER': 'django_valkey.serializers.pickle.PickleSerializer',
        },
    }
}