Interaction not responding

[fervent dust]

Hello I have been working on a bot for a while now and I have a loop that consists of people entering server names in it and the loop checks for if its offline / online. Only till recently their has been more servers in the loop for it to check for.

The loop works fine however my commands response times have been affected by this, I have ctx.defer() on my commands but this only works sometimes. My commands keep saying The application did not respond, is their any fix that anyone knows of?

[tranquil laurel]

The loop should be asynchronous

[tranquil laurel]

consider using tasks.loop instead of a while loop

b!rtfm pyc discord.ext.tasks

[thorn plank]

Best matches for discord.ext.tasks in pyc

discord.ext.tasks.Loop
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.__call__
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.add_exception_type
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.after_loop
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.before_loop
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.cancel
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.change_interval
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.clear_exception_types
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.current_loop
discord.ext.tasks.Loop.error

[fervent dust]

does tasks.loop only work in cogs? @tranquil laurel

[tranquil laurel]

no, it also works outside of cogs

[fervent dust]

hmm

doesnt seem to be looping

[tranquil laurel]

you should start the loop

[fervent dust]

it starts then doesnt loop again

[tranquil laurel]

that's not how you start a task loop

[fervent dust]

oh

[fervent dust]

what would I put then?

[tranquil laurel]

you have the tasks.loop decorator on your server_reports?

[fervent dust]

yes

[tranquil laurel]

server_reports.start()

[fervent dust]

alright loop works now but commands still timing out

[lucid sparrow]

I suggest you use aiosqlite which is basically sqlite but async

[fervent dust]

do you think this would fix the commands not responding?