Frequently Asked Questions

1. Error 400
2. Can't Connect With Redis install/configure it!
3. I have read the wiki, but ... I still confused ...

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Error 400

hi...when I send !id in chat or pv get this error :

Error 400.  
What ever that's mean...  

why ?

Merbot uses bot API as a companion to send pre-formatted (bold, italic and monospace font) message. Error 400 indicated that the bot requests was malformed, not as what expected by telegram API server.

This bot API sometimes failed to sent messages because:

• the message contain non-ascii string
• the bot API is not in same group with the requester
• requester didn't initiate a communication with the bot API.

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Can't Connect With Redis install/configure it!

merbot uses redis as a simple database to store ban, flood control, kick control, etc..

Can't Connect With Redis install/configure it! means that the bot unable to connect to redis server.
Make sure you've installed it, if you didn't, just do: sudo apt install redis-server.
If redis-server is already installed, then the problem caused by its service is not started yet. Start the redis server by doing sudo service redis-server start.

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Where is merbot discussion group?

I prefer you to raise a github issue if you've encountered a problem with merbot.
But, if that's not your 'thing', then please head to merbots development group to ask your question there.