My bot hangs right at the beginning of the .start(), and hangs until I manually kill the process. I am trying to host it on a raspberry pi. None of these issues came up when I ran it locally on my computer, so I am kinda confused on what went wrong. I get this output and then it hangs:

beginning of main
INFO:telethon.network.mtprotosender:Connecting to 149.154.167.51:443/TcpFull…
INFO:telethon.network.mtprotosender:Connection to 149.154.167.51:443/TcpFull complete!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

import asyncio
import os
import logging
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from telethon import TelegramClient, events

# Configure logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Load environment variables
load_dotenv()


api_id = os.environ.get("API_ID", None)
api_hash = os.environ.get("API_HASH", None)

bot = TelegramClient("session_name", api_id=int(api_id), api_hash=api_hash)

async def on_startup():
    logger.info("Sending startup messages...")
    logger.info("Startup messages sent")

async def main():
    print("beginning of main")
    await bot.start()
    logger.info("After start() call")
    print("bot started")
    await on_startup()
    logger.info("Starting the bot...")
    await bot.run_until_disconnected()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

I tried updating all my packages, but they were all already up to date. I’m still sort of a python noob so please take it easy on me 🙂