Preventing bot from disconnecting users from normal voice channels?

Question

I'm trying to get my discord bot to disconnect users who get moved to the AFK channel. all works well with that except it tries to disconnect users who just enter talk channels, not just when you get moved to the AFK channel. I have to set permissions to not allow the bot to move or disconnect from those channels, so it keeps pulling up Missing permissions. Would love it to ignore those other voice channels.

i'm not sure how to exclude a voice channel so I tried

if discord.VoiceChannel.id == id:
   return

to no avail. I've tried setting the bot to not see those channels through discord but it still does and still tries to disconnect people.

@client.event
async def on_voice_state_update(member = discord.Member, before = discord.VoiceState.channel, after = discord.VoiceState.afk):
    await member.move_to(channel = None, reason = None)

Im guessing it's something basic but not sure how to ignore the other channels. I thought the API said the before = discord.VoiceState.channel refers to a members recent voice channel, none if they weren't in one, then when they go to the AFK channel, after = discord.VoiceState.afk it would disconnect. Am i interpreting that wrong? I'm obviously missing something

Kaynn Kaynn · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-08T10:20:11

From the API, on_voice_state_update will give you three things:

The member who had changed their voice state
The VoiceState before the member did something.
The VoiceState after the member did something.

And by "did something", its means this:

The member joins a voice channel.
The member leaves the voice channel.
The member muted or deafened himself.
The member got deafened or muted by another person.

(Aka literally what the API states)

What you are looking out for is the VoiceState after the change has occured. And in the API, it states that VoiceState has a property called afk which checks if the member is in the afk channel.

Your code would look something like this:

@client.event
async def on_voice_state_update(member, before, after):
    # If the user moved to the afk channel.
    if after.afk:
        # Do something about the user in afk channel.

    ### Use the codes below if you want to check if the user moved to a channel of the ID:


    if after.channel is None:
        # The user just simply left the channel. 
        # (Aka he did not switch to another voice channel.)
    elif after.channel.id == ID_OF_CHANNEL_HERE:
        # Do something about the user that just joined the channel with the respective ID

Preventing bot from disconnecting users from normal voice channels?

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