hooking upto chat server

[sfisque]

i noticed the other day that there are a couple #channels in the irc.eqemulator.net server that have server names. are those channels merely topically related to those servers or are they channels that let you speak to people currently logged into that server?

reason i ask, i remember when eq put out an epim client several years ago, and it was nice being able to chat with guildies and friends when i was stuck at work.

do we have a similar functionality in the eqemu and if so, how does one set it up

== stanton

[Cripp]

gota have dedi server with population to get granted the eq-irc chat channel thingy.. its all up to doodman pretty much, he wrote the thing.. :)

[sfisque]

ok, barring that option, is it possible to wire up my own irc server to "expose" the server chat to my own irc server if i wanted? or does it require some specialized "add on" to the irc server to get this connectivity?

another possibility, does eqemu support the actual eqim client in a similar fashion to its titanium supporrt?

== sfisque

[Cripp]

ya, it requires some specialized "add on" to the irc server and/or eq server.

[sfisque]

ya, it requires some specialized "add on" to the irc server and/or eq server.

all good. doodman hooked me up. it was less effort than i had expected. at least dood made it seem easy. million thx :)

== sfisque

[narcberry]

can you post a solution for the rest of us? :)

[sfisque]

simple solution... talk to doodman. i dont know what the "criteria" or whatnot is, but i asked nicely, and he set it up.

then all you have to do is create the #channel you want to use, let doodman know what the channel name is (along with some other config info from your config.xml file) and bingo.

a caveat: the connectivity between the eqclient/server/irc is sensitive and drops fairly often, though zoning or camping fixes it for the particular user in question. i dont know if it is an artifact of bandwidth or just plain old latency that causes the chat pipe to drop.

== sfisque

[Doodman]

No criteria, except:

1) Register your channel.
a) Which implies that you've registered your nick
2) PM me your servers short name and the channel you want people placed in and choose the "type" of channel:
a) Auto - People are placed in the channel, can talk and leave.
b) Forced - People are placed in the channel and can talk, but cannot leave
c) Admin - People are placed in the channel, but cannot talk or leave

[narcberry]

Is there a way to connect to a local IRC server instead? All I can find is the <chatserver> block in the config xml, but can't get it to work for me.

Am I being an IRC noob or are other customizations required?

[narcberry]

On IRC I discovered the eqemu server doesn't speak IRC, there is a tool doodman wrote to, I assume, translate into IRC which is why only the eqemu irc server works with eqemu chat.

That being said, and assuming I haven't made a gross error somewhere, can that tool be made available to us?