Welcome to the Irssi Notifier Development Site

Based on the famous  fnotify.pl which requires kind of a hack to work, ie, write messages to a temporary file, blah, blah, if you know  fnotify.pl you know what I'm talking about.

This idea is based on  this blog post, which itself is based  on another post.

The idea is the same(regarding the first post link I provided), remote visual notification of private messages, messages sent to you and messages where you're addressed. The only significant diference is that is a real time notification! Ok, ok, it will only pop after 0.5 second.

To make this possible you need the irssi proxy to be configured(find out how  here, the  libnotify library and it's python bindings, the python  irclib library, python and optionally, if you're behind a restrictive proxy like for example  squid, an ssh client capable of port forwarding, more on this later on.

First, a screenshot of what this baby does:

Ok, now let's go deep into installing a configuring this baby. Install instructions will be based on Kubuntu, my laptop's distro, but they should work for any Debian based distro.Let's install the needed dependencies:

apt-get install libnotify1 python-notify python-gtk2 python-setuptools python-irclib notification-daemon

Once the above is finished, you can use setuptools easy_install tool to install Irssi Notifier, so let's install it:

easy_install IrssiNotifier

The above command will install Irssi Notifier into python's site-packages and the irssi-notifier binary into /usr/bin/.

Now, until you get your configuration settings right and Irssi Notifier does not throw you an error do, in case you've setup irssi proxy to listen on domain example.tld, port 55555 with the the proxy password Bar for the nick Foo:

irssi-notifier -P example.tld:55555:Foo -p BAR

If the above did not throw error(it shouldn't) then you can write the configuration to file(defaults to ~/.irssinotification):

irssi-notifier -P example.tld:55555:Foo -p BAR -W

Now, next time you want to launch Irssi Notifier, you just have to issue:

irssi-notifier

Now, some explanation to what gets written to the configuration file plus some other available configuration options :

[main]
passwd = BAR
proxies = example.tld:55555:FOO
timeout = 5
friends = foobar barfoo

• nick - The common nick used in all defined proxies</li>
• passwd - The irssi proxy password</li>
• proxies - A space seperated list of irssi proxies to listen to composed of <address>:<port> or <address>:<port>:<nick>. If you choose the first way to define the proxy you must also provide the nick configuration variable, that's the way we know messages are addressed to you.
• timeout - Timeout in seconds for the pop-up notification to go away.
• friends - A space seperated list of your friends nicks to be notified when they join, part, quit or change nicks.

That's about what's needed to run Irssi Notifier.

As a secondary subject for those that, like me, are behind a restrictive firewall and the only way out is through an http proxy( Squid), you still have an option,  OpenSSH with  connect-proxy.

 Connect-Proxy is basically an  OpenSSH extension to enable ssh connections through a proxy server. There's info on how to use the  connect-proxy on it's own page, basically, in my specific case, I need to connect to the http proxy and authentication is not required, so I changed my ~/.ssh/config and added:

ProxyCommand connect-proxy -H <proxy_host>:<proxy_port> %h %p

Now, for every ssh connection that command is executed, and that's how I'm able to ssh trough the http proxy. And for irssi notifier, basicly, I establish a tunnel for each irssi proxy connection defined, for example:

ssh -L 55555:localhost:55555 user@remote.tld

Back to your own usage, now you should instead point Irssi Notifier to localhost instead of the remote host.

irssi-notifier -P localhost:55555:Foo -p BAR

You might also find some aditional info on Irssi Notifier's  blog.

Please help up translate IrssiNotifier, find out how.

Starting Points

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
•  mp3 download -- Trac Open Source Project
•  Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

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