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On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 18:18, Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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). I know I can - and I have been, but I don't want to leave my power hungry desktop running 24x7. > 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. A bouncer sounds exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you. I'll go read up on these. :) Grant. :) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq