# Debugging mattermost bot failure(s) **URL:** https://forum.mattermost.com/t/debugging-mattermost-bot-failure-s/2204 **Category:** Troubleshooting **Created:** [September 7, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/debugging-mattermost-bot-failure-s/2204 "2016-09-07T01:25:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Urge4Vert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Urge4Vert](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/Urge4Vert) #### Post date: [September 7, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/debugging-mattermost-bot-failure-s/2204/1 "2016-09-07T01:25:52Z")
I’ve been trying to get a bot running on mattermost to respond to ‘calendar’ queries. I’m running Mattermost 3.2.0 I’ve tried hubot-matteruser,hubot-mattermost and mattermost\_bot hubot-mattermost says it runs, and even with debug mode turned on I get no errors. And I never see it show up in any channels and when I message it directly it doesn’t respond hubot-matteruser runs, but the flails with the following error [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG POST /users/login [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] INFO Websocket URL: wss://team.example.com:443/api/v3/users/websocket [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] INFO Logged in as user “hubot” but not connected yet. [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG GET /users/initial\_load [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG Found 1 teams. [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG Testing [example.com](http://example.com) == [example.com](http://example.com) [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG Found team! … [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG GET /users/profiles/… [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG GET /teams/…/channels [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] INFO Connecting… [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] INFO Connected to Mattermost. [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:46 GMT-0700 (PDT)] WARNING Loading scripts from hubot-scripts.json is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0 ([IMPORTANT: No longer accepting new scripts to this package, create external packages instead · Issue #1113 · github/hubot-scripts · GitHub](https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113)) in f avor of packages for each script. Your hubot-scripts.json is empty, so you just need to remove it. [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:46 GMT-0700 (PDT)] INFO Starting pinger… [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:46 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG Found 5 channels. [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:21:46 GMT-0700 (PDT)] DEBUG Found 8 profiles. [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:22:16 GMT-0700 (PDT)] INFO ping [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:22:16 GMT-0700 (PDT)] ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property ‘text’ of undefined at Client.onMessage (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/mattermost-client/src/client.coffee:224:20, :295:28) at WebSocket. (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/mattermost-client/src/client.coffee:159:13, :218:22) at emitTwo (events.js:106:13) at WebSocket.emit (events.js:191:7) at Receiver.ontext (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/WebSocket.js:841:10) at /home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:536:18 at Receiver.applyExtensions (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:371:5) at /home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:508:14 at Receiver.flush (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:347:3) at Receiver.opcodes.1.finish (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:541:12) at Receiver.expectHandler (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:499:31) at Receiver.add (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/Receiver.js:103:24) at TLSSocket.realHandler (/home/hubot-matteruser/node\_modules/ws/lib/WebSocket.js:825:20) at emitOne (events.js:96:13) at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:188:7) at readableAddChunk (\_stream\_readable.js:177:18) at TLSSocket.Readable.push (\_stream\_readable.js:135:10) at TLSWrap.onread (net.js:542:20) [Tue Sep 06 2016 18:22:45 GMT-0700 (PDT)] INFO Reconnecting in 1000ms Then it just keeps reconnecting. mattermost\_bot runs, and responds but I need it to be in a ‘channel’ so everyone can address it without direct messaging and I don’t know how to get it to join a channel. What I’m trying to set up is a calendar, much like the /reminder in slack. Someone says ‘calendar doctors appointment tomorrow’ and it gets added to a calendar, probably a text file something simple. I’ve researched and Googled and can’t seem to find any simple way to do this. Any assistance would be GREATLY appreciated.