Telethon: can't start a session programatically

Question

I am trying to start a TelegramClient session inside a function.

there are no errors, but the decorator for events.NewMessage doesn't seem to act...

here is the code I use:

async def runClient(sessionName):
  client = getClientBySessionName(sessionName) # this is constructed with TelegramClient from telethon.sync

  await client.connect()
  me = await client.get_me()
  print(me.first_name)
  await client.disconnect()
  if not me:
    return
    
  await client.start()

  @client.on(events.NewMessage)
  async def nmh(event):
    await newMessageHandler(event, client)

async def newMessageHandler(event, client):
  print(event.raw_text)

and to make sure that I have created the TelegramClient right, I have tested other methods on it, and it works fine

problem:

when new messages accrue, nothing is logged

Answer 1

Did you try something like this?

@client.on(events.NewMessage(chats=user_input_channel))
    async def newMessageListener(event):
        ...