Re: [Weechat-support] IRC to AIM bidirectional filtered relay?

[Daniel Clark]

On 12/29/06, FlashCode <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:26:58AM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows of software that implements this kind of
> > gateway/relay/bridge scheme (so I can just use it rather than write it
> > myself :-) or anything that achieves the same effect (receive selected
> > IRC messages via SMS, with the ability to reply):
> >
> > IRC #chan <-> (Filter) <-> AIM user_chan_server <-> AIM user_chan_client
> > <-> SMS
> >
> > Where:
> >
> > IRC #chan: IRC channel to relay
> >
> > (Filter): User-programmable filter of what gets relayed, and how (e.g.
> > only messages with my nick, limit messages to X characters, limit rate
> > of messages etc.)
> >
> > AIM user_chan_server: An AIM screen name set up specifically to relay
> > messages from IRC #chan to other AIM screen names; anything sent to
> > this screen name gets relayed to IRC #chan, and anything that is sent
> > to this screen name gets sent to user_chan_client
> >
> > AIM user_chan_client: An AIM screen name set up specifically to
> > receive messages from user_chan_server and send them to SMS
> >
> > SMS: The user's mobile device which can send and receive SMS messages
> >
> > Also, do people think WeeChat would be a good platform to implement
> > this on? I'd want the messages to look like they are coming from a
> > user, not the bot; using WeeChat with an IRC bouncer like Bip this
> > looks like it would be possible.
> >
> > IMHO it would probably make more sense to integrate this function with
> > an IRC Bouncer, but none of them I found supported Python plugins
> > (ctrlproxy is supposed to in 3.1, but that release may be a ways off.)
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I don't understand exactly what you want to do.
> Did you heard about "bitlbee" ? It's an IRC server providing gateway
> for protocols like Jabber, AIM, ICQ, MSN, ..
>
> Anyway, you're welcome on irc.freenode.net, channel #weechat to
> discuss with us (developers) about any feature request.

Thanks; just for the possible benefit of Google searchers:

[15:04] <djbclark> FlashCode: Just got your response on the mailing
list... Basically I want to have AIM/Yahoo-style SMS functionality
with IRC (but with greater configurability of what messages get sent
to SMS).

[15:05] <djbclark> The easiest way to do that to me would seem to be
to exploit the fact you can get an infinate number of AIM screen names
for free, and use their servers to get information to/from SMS (in
most cases you can also use email, but I'm guessing their gateway is
faster)

[15:06] <FlashCode> and what do you want to do in weechat for that ?

[15:06] <djbclark> The use case would be that a user is offline but
has a cell phone on them. When their nick is mentioned they get an SMS
of the message; they can then either reply via SMS, or start up an IRC
client on their device.

[15:08] <djbclark> It looks like it would be possible using the
weechat plugin interface... It's not something you would want to use a
bot for as far as I can see, as you would want the messages to come
from the user, not a bot.

[15:08] <FlashCode> I think you can do that, yes

[15:09] <djbclark> The query was just to see (a) if anyone had heard
of something like that already existing, and (b) if weechat would be a
good platform to work from (vs supybot etc)... you just answered (b)
;-)

[15:10] <FlashCode> never heard about something like that, I don't
know if that already exists

[15:12] <djbclark> Thanks... Now off to code... I'm sure I'll be
pestering the channel more over the next few weeks.

[15:12] <FlashCode> ok :)