Set a timeout for a MongoDB request

Question

I am building an android app, with a Backend in python that uses MongoDB.

I am currently trying the handle the case where the ip is not added to MongoDB - meaning the server cant access it.

So I used try and except on all the MongoDB request, for example:

    try:
        matching_locations_list = list(location_collection.find({"username": username}))
    except pymongo.errors.PyMongoError:
        return ["Problem with connecting to MongoDB"]

But, it takes a bit of time, usually around 30 seconds, for MongoDB to throw the following error (which i catch):

pymongo.errors.ServerSelectionTimeoutError

My question is - Is there a way to set this timeout? So my app does not have to be waiting for around 30 second for the server to return "Problem with DB"

Tried using the following:

# Connection options
connection_options = {
    "connectTimeoutMS": 5000,      # Set the connection timeout value in milliseconds
    "socketTimeoutMS": 5000,       # Set the socket timeout value in milliseconds
}

and then:

client = pymongo.MongoClient(connection_string, **connection_options)

But it didn't same to make any difference.