core: Discord notifications not working

Home Assistant release with the issue:

0.88.1

Last working Home Assistant release (if known): Not sure actually

Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.):

Hass.io Component/platform:

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/notify.discord/

Description of problem: Sending notifications with the discord platform gives errors in the log and nothing is sent.

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and (fill out even if it seems unimportant):

  - name: Discord
    platform: discord
    token: !secret discord_token

Traceback (if applicable):

Sat Feb 23 2019 21:56:20 GMT+0100 (centraleuropeisk normaltid)
Error handling message: {'type': 'call_service', 'domain': 'notify', 'service': 'discord', 'service_data': {'message': "The sun is {% if is_state('sun.sun', 'above_horizon') %}up{% else %}down{% endif %}!"}, 'id': 14}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/decorators.py", line 17, in _handle_async_response
    await func(hass, connection, msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 147, in handle_call_service
    connection.context(msg))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 1133, in async_call
    self._execute_service(handler, service_call))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 1155, in _execute_service
    await handler.func(service_call)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/components/notify/__init__.py", line 117, in async_notify_message
    await notify_service.async_send_message(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/components/notify/discord.py", line 43, in async_send_message
    import discord
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .client import Client, AppInfo, ChannelPermissions
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 38, in <module>
    from .state import ConnectionState
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/state.py", line 36, in <module>
    from . import utils, compat
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/compat.py", line 32
    create_task = asyncio.async
                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Additional information:

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 45 (10 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

In 0.88 the home assistant docker image was updated to use Python 3.7. In Python 3.7 async is a reserved keyword. So even though the discord notify platform wasn’t changed, the change in environment surfaced this problem.

MartinHjelmare on Feb 23, 2019

Hi everyone. Is there a hope that discord/compat.py file will be fix for HassIo users who can’t modify it with sudo?

I already use discord_webhook but we cannot add pic on our message. It useful when you want to use it with your security camera for example.

Thanks Long life to the community 😃

Edmond76 on Mar 17, 2019

@filikun It’s annoying, but can be ignored. 204 is one kind of success message but unfortunately it only listens for 200.

isabellaalstrom on Mar 8, 2019

@Naesstrom I have the same issue on the same hardware and have not been able to locate the compat.py file to manually update.

I just started using webhooks on discord to get the same result and not have to worry about dependencies. I first created the webhook on discord in server settings to get the url then setup in home assistant. My config looks like

- platform: rest
  name: discord_webhook
  method: POST
  message_param_name: content
  title_param_name: username
  data:
    username: Home Assistant
  resource: "https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/551783857968513035/your webhook url

Automation example:

    - service: notify.discord_webhook
      data:
        message: 'your message here'

mkono87 on Mar 4, 2019

@mkono87 On the box that’s running docker run this command to find the file you need to edit: sudo find /var/lib/docker/ -name compat.py | grep discord/compat.py If you find multiples you need to cleanup unused images (You can google a command for that)

Edit the file you found with the above command example your path WILL be different:

sudo nano /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/<SomeRandomIDNumber>/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/discord/compat.py

On line 35 you will see

create_task = asyncio.async change that to to create_task = getattr(asyncio, 'async')

Wutname1 on Mar 1, 2019

This got me my file. sudo find /var/lib/docker/ -name compat.py | grep discord/compat.py I run hass.io in a docker container on Ubuntu

isabellaalstrom on Feb 27, 2019

It’s fixed in the discord.py package, so updating the dependency should solve it? https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/commit/1863a1c6636f53592519320a173ec9573c090c0b

Edit: Sorry, mistake on my part, the fix doesn’t seem to be in a release, only in a dev branch…

isabellaalstrom on Feb 26, 2019