Errors when setting up the Lobby Bots.

[LogicXPlaysYT]

Hi,

When I set up the lobbybots, I get the following errors:

2025-07-23T15:14:25+0200 ERROR No appropriate login method. 2025-07-23T15:14:25+0200 ERROR Can't log in. Aborting reconnects.

I’ve checked my ejabberd config and confirmed the user credentials are correct, but the bot still fails to log in.

Could someone please advise how to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
LogicXPlaysYT

[Dunedan]

So you can login with other users, e.g. when using 0ad, but login fails for the lobby bots?

[LogicXPlaysYT]

Yes, I can register users and log in successfully, but the lobby bots still can’t authenticate.

[Dunedan]

How do you run the bots? Do you use https://github.com/0ad/lobby-infrastructure/?

[LogicXPlaysYT]

It was the wrong one, thank you!

[LogicXPlaysYT]

@DunedanI had one last question. Today I spent around 5 hours setting up a fully working Ejabberd system, and everything works perfectly; except for the bots. Is there a way to get the bots working on Ejabberd?

I used: 'https://github.com/0ad/lobby-bots'

[Dunedan]

In general the instructions in https://github.com/0ad/lobby-bots should still work, although I haven't set up a multiplayer lobby using them in quite a while as using https://github.com/0ad/lobby-infrastructure/ is just much more comfortable.

Regarding your specific error, I can only guess based on the limited information you provided, but somebody had the same problem in the past using SleekXMPP (the predecessor of Slixmpp currently used by the bots): https://github.com/fritzy/SleekXMPP/issues/250. So my guess is you try to connect without TLS encryption, which Slixmpp doesn't allow with PLAIN authentication out of the box.

[LogicXPlaysYT]

To start the bots I used command: 'python -m xpartamupp.bot_start -l admin -p logic -n HostTracker -r arena -m localhost --no-verify' , I've also tried this one: 'python -m xpartamupp.bot_start' but both of the commands give the error: 

'2025-07-24T12:46:42+0200 ERROR    No appropriate login method.'
'2025-07-24T12:46:42+0200 ERROR    Can't log in. Aborting reconnects.'

Does this mean I'll have to buy a domain first ( because now I'm using localhost ) create a TLS encryption and try it again?

 

[Dunedan]

7 hours ago, LogicXPlaysYT said:

Does this mean I'll have to buy a domain first ( because now I'm using localhost ) create a TLS encryption and try it again?

No, you don't have to buy anything. You can continue to run it on localhost and create a self-signed TLS certificate as well. See the instructions at https://github.com/0ad/lobby-bots?tab=readme-ov-file#choice-b-self-signed-certificate.

[LogicXPlaysYT]

Alright, thank u