Bot stop responding

[Xh0st]

Bot stop interacting after been inactive. If not used for a while bot it's not responding. I have to close the terminal and run'it again.

[fabston]

You have to either use systemd or PM2 to run it clienteles. For more take a look here.

[Xh0st]

Runing the script with pm2 and after some time still stop responding. This is the bot_log from pm2

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/gargamel/airdrop/main.py", line 307, in
bot.polling()
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/init.py", line 514, in polling
self.__threaded_polling(none_stop, interval, timeout, long_polling_timeout)
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/init.py", line 573, in __threaded_polling
raise e
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/init.py", line 536, in __threaded_polling
self.worker_pool.raise_exceptions()
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/util.py", line 117, in raise_exceptions
raise self.exception_info
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/util.py", line 69, in run
task(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/gargamel/airdrop/main.py", line 154, in handle_text
bot.send_message(message.chat.id,
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/init.py", line 768, in send_message
apihelper.send_message(self.token, chat_id, text, disable_web_page_preview, reply_to_message_id,
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/apihelper.py", line 225, in send_message
return _make_request(token, method_url, params=payload, method='post')
File "/home/gargamel/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/telebot/apihelper.py", line 126, in _make_request
result = _get_req_session().request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 498, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', OSError("(110, 'ETIMEDOUT')"))

[fabston]

Do you run the bot on a VPS? Because it looks like a network problem.

You can try the following. Replace bot.polling() in main.py with:

  try:
    bot.polling()
  except OSError:
    print("Connection Error. Reconnecting...")
    time.sleep(1)
    bot.polling()

[Xh0st]

Yes it's runing on a VPS. I will lett you know if this is working.

[fabston]

I just edited the message. You might want to include the print statement.

[Xh0st]

still same issue. I have two bots running on azure and only this one it's sleeping after a period of time.

[fabston]

Odd, never happened to me and I am also not able to reproduce it.

[Xh0st]

I have setup an script and sending /start command to the bot every 5 minutes and it's working now, not going to sleep anymore.

[fabston]

What a pita. But if it works.

[Xh0st]

What a pita. But if it works.

on my raspberry pi it's working perfectly but on azure it's going to sleep. Solved this issue for myself by disabling threading
bot = telebot.TeleBot(config.token, threaded=False)

[fabston]

Interesting. Are you using the bot behind a Webhook now and it still goes into sleep?

[Xh0st]

Interesting. Are you using the bot behind a Webhook now and it still goes into sleep?

I'm not using it behind a Webhook I have an other bot running behind a webhook.

[fabston]

Yea that's the issue with the Webhook setup. Well if threaded=False did the trick I guess you don't need the Webhook solution.