RuntimeError: main thread is not in main loop

Trying to utilize matplotlib in dash alongside flask. However, when using a callback to generate my matplot and update an image component, I will get if self._tk.getboolean(self._tk.call("info", "exists", self._name)): RuntimeError: main thread is not in main loop. I’m not experienced with how dash handles threading or implements tkinter GUI. Any help here?

Here is my component:

html.Img(id='pcolormesh-plot')

and the callback:

@callback(
    Output('pcolormesh-plot', 'src'),
    Input('range-slider', 'value')
)
def plot_data(rangeVal):
    # filter data based on user selection
    low, high = rangeVal
    mask = (df_pos['timestamp'] >=  low) & (df_pos['timestamp'] <= high)
    df_pos_time = df_pos[mask]
    x, y = df_pos_time.x, df_pos_time.y

    #KDE
    k = gaussian_kde(np.vstack([x, y]))
    xi, yi = np.mgrid[x.min():x.max():x.size**0.5*1j,y.min():y.max():y.size**0.5*1j]
    zi = k(np.vstack([xi.flatten(), yi.flatten()]))

    #build heatmap
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    p = ax.pcolormesh(xi, yi, zi.reshape(xi.shape), alpha=0.6, edgecolor='none', shading='nearest')
    ax.set_xlim(x.min(), x.max())
    ax.set_ylim(y.min(), y.max())
    ax.axes.get_xaxis().set_visible(False)
    ax.axes.get_yaxis().set_visible(False)
    alphas = Normalize(0, .3, clip=True)(np.abs(zi.reshape(xi.shape)))


    buf = io.BytesIO() # in-memory files
    plt.savefig(buf, format = "png") # save to the above file object
    plt.close()
    data = base64.b64encode(buf.getbuffer()).decode("utf8") # encode to html elements

    return "data:image/png;base64,{}".format(data)

Did you get any work around ?