discord.ext.commands.errors.MissingPermissions: You are missing Mute Members permission(s) to run this command

Question

I'm trying to program a command that mutes every member in the author's voice channel. I'm doing this so myself and my friends can mute ourselves when we swap to in-game voice chat automatically. But for reasons I cannot explain, I can never get it to work. Here's my code:

@commands.command()
@commands.has_permissions(mute_members=True)
async def mute(self, ctx):
    if ctx.author.voice and ctx.author.voice.channel:
        channel = ctx.author.voice.channel
        for member in channel.members:
            await member.edit(mute=True)
    else:
        await ctx.send("You are not connected to a voice channel!")

This is the full error

I understand that the bot and the author need a mute members permission, but both of them do! I even made sure that they were at the top of the role list, and I edited the voice channel permissions to allow mute members for the author and bot. No matter what I do, I always keep getting the same error! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I wonder it might be something about the bots having the general permission to mute a member in the server but not in that specific category? — chluebi
I did give permissions for both the bot and the author to mute members on the server, voice channel, and the category the voice channel is in. — LukeBenVader1
Do you have any checks on your command(s)? MissingPermissions is a CheckFailure. — Patrick Haugh
Oh crap I do. My bad, I thought I included it in the code above. I changed it. — LukeBenVader1
You might try using has_guild_permissions instead. I suspect the channel permissions don't have mute_members because you can't mute people in a text channel. You would have to check channel.permissions_for(ctx.author) in the body of your callback. — Patrick Haugh

Makonede Makonede · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-13T22:53:33

async def has_channel_permissions(**kwargs):
    def predicate(ctx):
        if ctx.author.voice is not None:
            if ctx.author.voice.channel is not None:
                if kwargs in dict(ctx.author.voice.channel.permissions_for(ctx.author)) and kwargs in dict(commands.user:
                    return True
                else:
                    return False
        await ctx.send("You are not connected to a voice channel!")
        return False
    return commands.check(predicate)


@commands.command()
@has_channel_permissions(mute_members=True)
async def mute(self, ctx):
    channel = ctx.author.voice.channel
    for member in channel.members:
        await member.edit(mute=True)

discord.ext.commands.errors.MissingPermissions: You are missing Mute Members permission(s) to run this command

1 Answers