Set up your Lavalink server and connect your music bot

A music bot doesn't play audio by itself: it sends that work to a Lavalink server. The LavaLink V4 plan gives you your own server running Lavalink v4 on the Game Panel. You set it up and manage it yourself: choose a password, adjust its settings, then point your bot at it.

Step 1: Set your Lavalink password

1. Open your LavaLink server in the Game Panel (from billing: Services → your LavaLink service → Auto Login to Panel).

2. Go to the Startup tab and set the password variable to a long, random password.

3. Restart the server with Restart so the new password is used.

Step 2: Adjust application.yml (optional)

All other Lavalink settings live in application.yml. Open it from the Files tab and edit it with the built-in editor. Common changes:

• Sources: turn sources such as SoundCloud, Bandcamp or Twitch on or off under lavalink.server.sources.

• Plugins: add plugins under lavalink.plugins. In Lavalink v4, YouTube playback comes from the official youtube-source plugin, and Spotify/Apple Music support comes from plugins such as LavaSrc. Follow each plugin's own README for the exact lines to add.

• Don't change the port. The server must listen on the port the panel assigned to it (shown in the header and on the Network tab).

Save the file and Restart. Watch the Console: Lavalink prints its startup messages and any plugin errors there.

Step 3: Find your connection details

• Host and port: the address in the panel header and on the Dashboard, for example astra.endercloud.in:6972. Before the colon is the host, after it the port.

• Password: the one you set in Startup.

• Secure / SSL: false.

Step 4: Add the node to your bot

Every Lavalink client library asks for the same details, though the names differ slightly. A typical Node.js node entry:

{
  host: "astra.endercloud.in",
  port: 6972,
  password: process.env.LAVALINK_PASSWORD,
  secure: false
}

With Python and Wavelink 3 the details go into a URI:

node = wavelink.Node(uri="http://astra.endercloud.in:6972", password=os.getenv("LAVALINK_PASSWORD"))
await wavelink.Pool.connect(nodes=[node], client=bot)

Use your own host and port and keep the password in a .env file. See Keep your bot token safe. Your bot itself runs on a separate bot plan: see Node.js bot or Python bot.

Troubleshooting

Frequently asked questions