Trying voice channel connect method

[BololZ]

Hey,

Here a code for testing the method to connect a Discord Bot to a voice channel, when the user send a command and is connected to a voice channel :

import logging
import discord
from discord.ext import commands

# Configure logging to show DEBUG level
logging.basicConfig(
    level=logging.DEBUG,
    format="%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s: %(message)s",
    datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
)

intents = discord.Intents.none()
intents.guilds = True
intents.messages = True
intents.message_content = True
intents.members = True
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    logging.info(f"Logged in as {bot.user}")

@bot.command(name="testjoin")
async def testjoin(ctx):
    if not ctx.author.voice:
        logging.warning("User not in a voice channel.")
        await ctx.send("❌ You are not in a voice channel!")
        return
    voice_channel = ctx.author.voice.channel
    try:
        logging.info(f"Attempting to join voice channel: {voice_channel.name}")
        voice_client = await voice_channel.connect()
        logging.info(f"Successfully joined {voice_channel.name}!")
        await ctx.send(f"✅ Joined {voice_channel.name}!")
        await voice_client.disconnect()
    except Exception as e:
        logging.error(f"Failed to join voice channel: {e}", exc_info=True)
        await ctx.send(f"❌ Failed to join: {e}")

bot.run(<TOKEN>)

But the voice channel connect goes in timeout :

2026-04-05 18:31:50 [INFO] root: Logged in as testbot#1234
2026-04-05 18:35:52 [INFO] root: Attempting to join voice channel: testchannel
2026-04-05 18:35:52 INFO     discord.voice_state Connecting to voice...
2026-04-05 18:35:52 [INFO] discord.voice_state: Connecting to voice...
2026-04-05 18:35:52 INFO     discord.voice_state Starting voice handshake... (connection attempt 1)
2026-04-05 18:35:52 [INFO] discord.voice_state: Starting voice handshake... (connection attempt 1)
2026-04-05 18:36:22 INFO     discord.voice_state Timed out connecting to voice
2026-04-05 18:36:22 [INFO] discord.voice_state: Timed out connecting to voice
2026-04-05 18:36:22 INFO     discord.voice_state The voice handshake is being terminated for Channel ID
2026-04-05 18:36:22 [INFO] discord.voice_state: The voice handshake is being terminated for Channel ID

Here the version of Python libraries :

aiohappyeyeballs 2.6.1  Happy Eyeballs for asyncio
aiohttp          3.13.5 Async http client/server framework (asyncio)
aiosignal        1.4.0  aiosignal: a list of registered asynchronous callbacks
attrs            26.1.0 Classes Without Boilerplate
audioop-lts      0.2.2  LTS Port of Python audioop
cffi             2.0.0  Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
davey            0.1.5  A Discord Audio & Video End-to-End Encryption (DAVE) Protocol implementation
discord-py       2.7.1  A Python wrapper for the Discord API
frozenlist       1.8.0  A list-like structure which implements collections.abc.MutableSequence
idna             3.11   Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)
multidict        6.7.1  multidict implementation
propcache        0.4.1  Accelerated property cache
pycparser        3.0    C parser in Python
pynacl           1.5.0  Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library
yarl             1.23.0 Yet another URL library

The bot have the rights to connect a voice channel and talk. I tested on Windows 11/Python 3.14.3 and Linux x64/Python 3.13.5(and Python 3.12.13).
I don't know why it doesn't work, indeed I need some help to understand.

--
BololZ

[Soheab]

You need to enable the voice_states intent.

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