Fix API hang — run gaze push in detached thread

Synchronous urllib.urlopen at 10Hz was starving uvicorn's event loop
via GIL contention. Now each push runs in its own daemon thread, and
skips if the previous push is still in flight (natural rate limiting).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

headmic.py

@@ -463,17 +463,28 @@ def doa_track_loop():
         time.sleep(interval)
 
 
+_gaze_push_thread = None
+
 def _push_gaze(x: int, y: int):
-    """Fire-and-forget gaze push to eye service. Uses urllib to avoid httpx connection overhead."""
+    """Fire-and-forget gaze push to eye service in a detached thread."""
-    try:
+    global _gaze_push_thread
-        import urllib.request
+    # Skip if previous push is still in flight
-        data = json.dumps({"x": x, "y": y}).encode()
+    if _gaze_push_thread and _gaze_push_thread.is_alive():
-        req = urllib.request.Request(
+        return
-            f"{EYE_SERVICE_URL}/gaze", data=data,
+
-            headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
+    def _send():
-        urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=0.3)
+        try:
-    except Exception:
+            import urllib.request
-        pass
+            data = json.dumps({"x": x, "y": y}).encode()
+            req = urllib.request.Request(
+                f"{EYE_SERVICE_URL}/gaze", data=data,
+                headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"})
+            urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=0.5)
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+    _gaze_push_thread = threading.Thread(target=_send, daemon=True)
+    _gaze_push_thread.start()
 
 
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