We have connect to our favorite networks and to our favorite channels with Irssi. Now we have to issue these commands every time we start Irssi and it’s getting old and you do not want to use Irssi any more. Wait, you do not have to do that. Irssi can be configured for automatically identifying and connecting to your favorite channels. So lets get that going. (I would like to remind you that all of this information is available at anytime inside Irssi itself by typing /help or /help )

The network command
The first step is to set up the network. This network will be used later to tell Irssi where the channels belong. Lets add LiquidBabble. We really need to be in #slackstuff there
(In the following example, those attributes inside [these brackets] are optional though you probably want to use most of them)

Start Irssi and type:

/network add [-nick ] [-user ] [-realname ] -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv identify " liquidbabble

In the above command, we added liquidbabble as a network, accessible in the commands to come by using the name “liquidbabble”. These are the standard flags that I give to a network when I add a new one to Irssi. They should be self explanatory. touching a little deeper on the “-autosendcmd” attribute, the ^ character is necessary for you to properly identify with nickserv and the quotes are required for Irssi to recognize the beginning and end of the command Also, multiple commands can be sent to the network by separating them with a semi-colon “;”. For example, if you are an Oper on a network, yours could look like this:

(identify with nickserv) (wait a few seconds) (send the oper command)
-autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv identify password;wait 2000;/oper "

The server command
Now Irssi has to know what server to connect to for the newly added network. Now we type:

/server add -auto -network liquidbabble irc.liquidbabble.com

With that command, we told Irssi to add the round-robin address of “irc.liquidbabble.com” to the network “liquidbabble” and to auto connect to it. Since we sent nickserv the identify command the network add; we will be identified when we connect to the server. If you choose, you can put an individual server name in this command instead of the round-robin address of irc.liquidbabble.com. Again, there are other options to the server command that can be used like making an ssl connection with the -ssl attribute. These are, as stated before, available inside Irssi by typing “/help “.

Channels

I want my favorite channels on liquidbabble to be auto joined and I’m sure you do too. So, type:

/channel add -auto #slackstuff liquidbabble

That is the shortest one that we have done so far. In this command, we added #slackstuff the the channel list on the network “liquidbabble” and told Irssi to auto join it. That was easy enough. You can set up multiple networks and multiple channels. You can have some networks as auto join and some that you connect to with the “/connect” command by just issuing “/connect ” if you so choose. What did I tell ya in the beginning? Irssi is extremely configurable and, as with anything, get easier the more you use it. I might even show you how to set up different configs for multiple Irssi sessions. I do that alot also.

Hope your liking Irssi and I look forward to having you back for part 3. Until then; laterz

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