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Re: [LUG] IRC setup

 
On 28/03/2020 18:54, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
> 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. :)
> 


There is also IRC Cloud, I just use a hexchat as a client.  I would go
with what Gordon suggested, IRC bouncer.

Regards

Paul

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