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On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
Hi all, I've never really been much of an IRC person, but it's always been something I've wanted to get into more. I'm not particularly au-fait with some of the terminology so I hope you can point me in the right direction of what I'm trying to achieve. I have a relatively stable 70/20mbps broadband connection. I have at least 1 RPi that's sat there not doing very much day in day out. I would like to have a bit of software on the RPi that maintains an IRC connection to Freenode (particularly the #DCGLUG channel), and I'd like to be able to connect to my RPi using something like XChat. I know I could just use a command-line IRC client and SSH to the RPi when necessary, but I'm a creature of comfort and I like my GUI applications. Does anyone know of something like this?
You don't need the Pi. You can run XChat directly on your desktop/laptop and connect directly to Freenode (and dozens of other networks).
What you might be interested in is "bouncer". This can run on your Pi, it pretends to be a client to Freenode (etc.) and maintains a presence, so you can then take your laptop away (or turn off your desktop) then re-connect at a later date and it's stored all the chat from others in the channel. Typically people run bouncers in remote VPSs for various reasons - including better stability in you have an unreliable Internet connection.
IRC needs the bandwidth of a bit of wet string to work. Still works well on a 1200 baud modem for the most part.
I understand that Znc is a popular bouncer - I don't use one because my Internet connection is relatively stable and I leave my desktop running 24/7.
https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC Your chosen Linux may have it as a package. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq