From c79105bb440963750cbaf0a98fad11c5dac54e78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: barelyprofessional
 <150058423+barelyprofessional@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 18:12:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Redis client never has a chance to initiate so added that to
 the start of the bot

---
 KfChatDotNetBot/Program.cs | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/KfChatDotNetBot/Program.cs b/KfChatDotNetBot/Program.cs
index 3611daa..0f8dde9 100644
--- a/KfChatDotNetBot/Program.cs
+++ b/KfChatDotNetBot/Program.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
  */
 
 using System.Text;
+using KfChatDotNetBot.Services;
 using KfChatDotNetBot.Settings;
 using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 using NLog;
@@ -38,9 +39,19 @@ namespace KfChatDotNetBot
             await BuiltIn.SyncSettingsWithDb();
             logger.Info("Migrating settings from config.json (if needed)");
             await BuiltIn.MigrateJsonSettingsToDb();
+            logger.Info("Attempting to grab the Redis connection multiplexer so it's built");
+            try
+            {
+                _ = Redis.Multiplexer;
+            }
+            catch (Exception e)
+            {
+                logger.Error("Caught an error when attempting to grab the Redis multiplexer");
+                logger.Error(e);
+            }
             logger.Info("Handing over to bot now");
             Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
-            new ChatBot();
+            _ = new ChatBot();
         }
     }
 }
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