How to make a bot join voice channels discord.py

Question

I'm using discord.py to create a music bot, but I'm having trouble connecting the bot to a voice channel. Im using a Cog to seperate the music features from the rest.

@commands.command()
async def join_voice(self, ctx):
    channel = ctx.author.voice.channel
    print(channel.id)
    await self.client.VoiceChannel.connect()

But I get the error: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'channel'

I've looked all through the docs and all the similar questions on here and still no solutions!

Could someone help please?

Diggy. · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-05T14:52:42.203

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You're really close! The only thing you've got to change is:

@commands.command()
async def join_voice(self, ctx):
    connected = ctx.author.voice
    if connected:
        await connected.channel.connect() #  Use the channel instance you put into a variable

What you were doing was grabbing the VoiceChannel class object, and not the actual VoiceChannel instance that the user was connected to. That's where your error came in, as it was trying to find a voice channel which didn't exist.

Glad to see the progress, keep it up!

edited Aug 05 '20 at 14:52

answered May 13 '20 at 21:21

Diggy.

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I cant believe it its you again! You are literally the best person in the coding universe rn for me! Thanks so much! – May 13 '20 at 21:24
Haha, small world we live in :) No worries! – Diggy. May 13 '20 at 21:26
one last thing! it now says i need the PyNaCl library so i used ```pip install PyNaCl``` but it wont import to the project – May 13 '20 at 21:27
Are you getting an ImportError? – Diggy. May 13 '20 at 21:28
the error says ```discord.ext.commands.errors.ExtentionFailed: Extension 'cogs.Music' raised an error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyNaCl'``` – May 13 '20 at 21:31
Do you have clashing python versions perhaps? – Diggy. May 13 '20 at 21:33
Nope i only have v3.7 – May 13 '20 at 21:34
@LegacyCoding Try `import nacl` instead of `import PyNaCl` – Diggy. May 13 '20 at 21:38
Brilliant! Happy coding! – Diggy. May 13 '20 at 21:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '20 at 21:21

I'm no discord.py expert but try some of these links:

How a discord bot can join a voice channel in discord rewrite? AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'channels' https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/issues/585

I think the 3rd link is more relatable to you.

How to make a bot join voice channels discord.py

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