[Mod] Internet Relay Chat [irc]

[ghostshell]

we use this mod for Boomtown. check it out at freenode channel #boomtown

thanks, nice work !

[kaeza]

we use this mod for Boomtown. check it out at freenode channel #boomtown

thanks, nice work !

Thanks! Glad you found this useful.

[Traxie21]

Why does it iterate through all online players and use chat_send_player(name, msg) instead of just doing minetest.chat_send_all(msg)?

[Calinou]

Why does it iterate through all online players and use chat_send_player(name, msg) instead of just doing minetest.chat_send_all(msg)?

Maybe to not send the message on IRC, minetest.chat_send_all is sent to IRC, no?

[Traxie21]

Nope, minetest.chat_send_all works fine, I modified it.

[kaeza]

Oh sorry for the late reply.
It's because you can use /part and /join to set whether or not you want (as a player) to send your messages to the IRC channel.

So when the mod receives a message, it checks which users are "in" the channel and sends the message only to them.

[jojoa1997]

There should be a setting to add everyone to the channel

[kaeza]

There should be a setting to add everyone to the channel

Oh my g*d! how could I possibly miss such an useful feature??
https://github.com/kaeza/minetest-irc/blob/master/src/config.lua#L54
[ /sarcasm ]

[jojoa1997]

Maybe add an icon using the new lua HUD. Some icon in the upper right hand side would be nice.

[kaeza]

Hmm... that's actually a nice idea.
I'm currently working on adding HUD to survival_modpack, and ShadowNinja is doing some heavy reformatting on the source code of IRC mod, so that'll have to wait.

[kaeza]

BIG Update:

This mod was heavily rewritten by ShadowNinja, using a different LuaIRC library.

As a result, and as ShadowNinja says, "It is waaaaay smaller and more responsive." 100% guaranteed ;)

See first post for download link.

[BrunoMine]

error
I received this error message:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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ERROR: ModError: Failed to load and run
C:Users/Bruno/Desktop/Minetest-0.4.9/bin...mods/irc/init.lua


[spoiler=Debug]

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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14:07:23: ERROR[main]: ========== ERROR FROM LUA ===========
14:07:23: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
14:07:23: ERROR[main]: C:\Users\Bruno\Desktop\MinetestData\minetest-0.4.9\bin\..\mods\irc\init.lua:
14:07:23: ERROR[main]: cannot open C:\Users\Bruno\Desktop\MinetestData\minetest-0.4.9\bin\..\mods\irc\init.lua: No such file or directory
14:07:23: ERROR[main]: ======= END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========
14:07:23: ERROR[main]: Server: Failed to load and run C:\Users\Bruno\Desktop\MinetestData\minetest-0.4.9\bin\..\mods\irc\init.lua
14:07:23: ERROR[main]: ModError: ModError: Failed to load and run C:\Users\Bruno\Desktop\MinetestData\minetest-0.4.9\bin\..\mods\irc\init.lua


[/spoiler]

SO: Windows 7

[kaeza]

error
I received this error message:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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ERROR: ModError: Failed to load and run
C:Users/Bruno/Desktop/Minetest-0.4.9/bin...mods/irc/init.lua


That is not enough information. It's only saying it's failing, but not giving a reason.
Try pasting more lines from the console or debug.txt (hint: search for a line that says "=== ERROR FROM LUA ===").

Are you using the "source" tree as a mod? This "mod" is not meant to be put directly into the `mods' directory. Read the README for more info.

By the way, this mod does not currently work on Windows, so you may as well not waste your time.

EDIT: Saw your edit it seems you are using the source tree as a mod.

[BrunoMine]

HOOOOOOO :(
Sadness!

[ranta]

this mod is definatly not for someone who has little to no lua knowledge like me the instrutions make my head explode

[CraigyDavi]

By the way, this mod does not currently work on Windows, so you may as well not waste your time.

Is there any plan for this mod to support windows in the future?

[kaeza]

Is there any plan for this mod to support windows in the future?

Not in the foreseeable future.

IRC Mod crashes Minetest on Windows because they use "different" Lua libraries (they are actually the same, but Minetest uses a statically linked version, and the mod uses a DLL). This magically works on *nix, but not on Windows.

A possible solution would be to make Minetest use a Lua DLL instead of statically linked Lua, and make the mod use the same DLL, but I don't know if this would even work.

[kaeza]

*BUMP*
New build for Ubuntu 14.04 AMD64 generously provided by Calinou. See first post for links.

[ThatGraemeGuy]

OK, what am I missing. I figured I need LuaSocket and every Ubuntu package I've tried that i thought may satisfy the dependency hasn't helped. I found an "Installation" page at http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luaso ... ation.html, which tells me a lot, except how to install LuaSocket.

[stormchaser3000]

OK, what am I missing. I figured I need LuaSocket and every Ubuntu package I've tried that i thought may satisfy the dependency hasn't helped. I found an "Installation" page at http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luaso ... ation.html, which tells me a lot, except how to install LuaSocket.

what version of ubuntu are you using?

[Fritigern]

OK, what am I missing. I figured I need LuaSocket and every Ubuntu package I've tried that i thought may satisfy the dependency hasn't helped. I found an "Installation" page at http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luaso ... ation.html, which tells me a lot, except how to install LuaSocket.

I'm using Kubuntu 14.10 Beta, and I was pulling out my hair because I couldn't get the mod to work.
Here's the big trick:

First off, the only additional package that you need to install is lua-socket
So (for those that read along, looking for a solution too) first run

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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sudo apt-get install lua-socket

Then open mods/minetest_irc/init.lua and find lines 20 and 21 which read as follows:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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      package.cpath = package.cpath..
             ";/usr/lib/lua/5.1/?.so"

and change that to

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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      package.cpath = package.cpath..
 --          ";/usr/lib/lua/5.1/?.so"
             ";/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/?.so"

This comments out the original search path (so it can be undone if needed) and adds the path where Debian/Ubuntu/etc. will install LuaSocket to.
I do believe that the path is slightly different for 32-bit systems, but I forgot how it is different.

You should be all set now. Don't forget to double check your IRC related config options to minetest.conf!

Hope this helps!

[kaeza]

If that fails, try these commands:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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sudo apt-get install luarocks
sudo luarocks install luasocket


[Pitriss]

Hi, please can you consider adding per user setting to disable autojoin?

[Fritigern]

If that fails, try these commands:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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sudo apt-get install luarocks
sudo luarocks install luasocket


Could you elaborate and explain what that would do?

[kaeza]

If that fails, try these commands:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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sudo apt-get install luarocks
sudo luarocks install luasocket


Could you elaborate and explain what that would do?

It would AFAIK install luasocket into a standard directory where Lua can find it without adding paths to `init.lua`.

[DI3HARD139]

One of my servers keeps crashing with this error:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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terminate called after throwing an instance of 'ServerError'
  what():  /home/di3hard139/.minetest/mods/irc/chatcmds.lua:53: attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:
   /home/di3hard139/.minetest/mods/irc/chatcmds.lua:53: in function 'func'
   /usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/chatcommands.lua:40: in function </usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/chatcommands.lua:29>
   /usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:341: in function </usr/share/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:329>
Aborted (core dumped)


It didn't dump in the debug.txt file so I pulled it from terminal. My 2nd server gets this same error but doesn't crash from it.

[Cryterion]

If anyone can help with the following, have installed luasocker and lua-socket via both scenarios above. The server is 32bit. It indicates that the files cannot be found, could anyone indicate where it might be in ubuntu 14.04?

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2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: ========== ERROR FROM LUA ===========
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: /home/server01/MT/minetest/bin/../games/dreambuiler/mods/irc/init.lua:
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: .../minetest/bin/../games/dreambuiler/mods/irc/init.lua:37: module 'irc' not found:
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no field package.preload['irc']
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/home/server01/MT/minetest/bin/../games/dreambuiler/mods/irc/irc/init.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/home/server01/MT/minetest/bin/../games/dreambuiler/mods/irc/irc.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file './irc.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/irc.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/irc/init.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/irc.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/irc/init.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/irc.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/irc/init.lua'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file './irc.so'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/irc.so'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    no file '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.1/irc.so'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    [C]: in function 'require'
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]:    .../minetest/bin/../games/dreambuiler/mods/irc/init.lua:37: in main chunk
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: ======= END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: Server: Failed to load and run /home/server01/MT/minetest/bin/../games/dreambuiler/mods/irc/init.lua
2015-05-17 20:01:18: ERROR[main]: ERROR: An unhandled exception occurred: ModError: Failed to load and run /home/server01/MT/minetest/bin/../games/dreambuiler/mods/irc/init.lua


[Cryterion]

Nevermind, got it working :)

[fireglow]

Very cool mod, absolutely love it!
Suggestion: Display the reason for a player leaving the minetest server in the IRC message.
While on IRC, I see a few players always joining/quitting the minetest servers, so it'd be nice to see if they, for example, time out or not.

[kaeza]

Thank you.

While I agree that the feature is needed and would be welcome by several server owners, as far as I know there's no way in the Minetest API to distinguish if a player left because of timeout or just disconnected. It may be possible to patch the engine for support (if there's no way already).

Edit: After a little bit of discussion on the dev channel, it would involve too many changes for a feature that maybe one or two mods may find useful. Sorry, but won't implement at this point.