Help requested: discord bot offline and no messages sending

[frank shuttle]

I setup a discord application and bot using the instructions at https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/discord/ and it all seemed to work (except I couldn't uncheck "Public Bot" as I kept getting a "Private application cannot have a default authorization link" error) and then authorized the bot to my private server.
The bot is showing as Offline though, and when I try to test it by going to Settings, Developer Tools, Actions it gives the green check mark but I don't actually receive any messages.
Any pointers on where to check to start debugging this?

[frank shuttle]

Help requested: discord bot offline and no messages sending

[dire epoch]

Have you taken a look at your home-assistant.log file? Anything related show up there?

[frank shuttle]

thanks for the response - let me check that now

WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.discord.notify] Channel not found for ID: xxx

thats the right channel ID when I right-click on it in Discord and select "Copy Channel ID"

maybe be a permission issue preventing the bot from finding that channel?

ahhh! I needed quotes around the channel ID! even in the GUI!

sorry for the n00b question, didnt realize it would be something so simple

I guess it does say it needs a string, but I assumed in the Developer Tools it would wrap/escape for you

[dire epoch]

All good, the logs are usually a good first place to check... if that doesn't work there's always an option to turn on debug logging, which can help too

[frank shuttle]

thanks, I always assumed it was a discord issue rather than a HA issue, so didnt look at HA logs

[wintry blaze]

Where do you set the channelID etc?