weechat's weechat relay plugin Saturday Jan 18 3:11:44 2014 Weechat supports two different relay protocols: 'irc' and 'weechat'. I know that the names 'irc' and 'weechat' sound a bit confusing because they both refer to an internet protocol and an irc program and also to the names of two protocols which are specific to an irc program, weechat in this case. But I hope I can make it clear :) Last year I wrote a phlog post on how to use the 'irc' one (which can be used with almost any irc client). And today I will explain how to use weechat's weechat relay plugin (which is easier to setup but has the disadvantage that you can only connect to it with a client that supports it (for example weechat itself, QWeeChat or weechat-android). You can also read the full tutorial that I added to sdfeu's website: (HTM) Weechat tutorial Let us start from scratch. To begin with, start weechat-curses, connect to your networks/servers and join your favourite channels. In order to use the 'weechat' protocol on sdfeu you only need one single port which is your uid number. Type 'id' at the shell and you will see something similar to this: odin:~$ id uid=007(bond) gid=500(arpa) groups=500(arpa),600(MetaARPA),700(dba),900(motd Only the "uid" part is relevant here, "uid=007(bond)" which means that "007" is the "port" and "bond" is the "username". Let's now assume that user "bond" wants to use the password "james_bond" (This way, you will understand the examples better). - Inside weechat: * First add the relay /relay add weechat port Example: /relay add weechat 007 * Set the password /set relay.network.password "password" Example: /set relay.network.password "james_bond" - On the client side: Now, simply connect from your client to sdfeu.org using your port and your password. Your client will connect to the client running on sdfeu and connect to all the networks and channels and besides, it will retrieve the backlog. Nifty!