I spent ages last night reconfiguring irssi on one of my raspberry pi's that was still using Freenode. I did everything right! I know I did, but it kept refusing to connect

Irssi: Unable to connect server [Name or service not known]

Libera.Chat

I saved the details over and over again, all to no avail. "OK then, let's see if it'll connect to Freenode?" sure enough, it connected no problem. So this isn't really possible, but Google wasn't any use at all, so I wondered if somehow the Freenode settings were overriding the new ones? "I know, I'll erase irssi and re-install." I went through the whole configuration process again and still, it wouldn't connect. Getting fairly annoyed I moved onto something else for a while but then reading through some documentation the clouds parted for me.

/SERVER ADD -auto -network liberachat irc.libera.chat

Guess who had been spelling it libra? Doh!

As a side note I have to say the irssi install notes aren't the best. Here's what you need. Start irssi and enter the following:

/set nick yournickchoice

/set user_name yournamechoice

/set real_name Your Name (Think wisely if you want your real name here)

Now would be a good time to register your Nick (Nickname) of choice so that nobody can pinch it.

/msg NickServ REGISTER YourPassword youremail@example.com

that's the basics of your details setup. Now we need to add a Network and Server

/network add liberachat (You may change this to the network of your choice)

/SERVER ADD -auto -network liberachat irc.libera.chat

We've now told irssi that we are going to use the irc.libera.chat Server on the liberachat Network. You can add some Channels to automatically connect at startup but I prefer to join them manually. Next, let's configure irssi to automatically log you into the Server and authenticate your Nick

/NETWORK ADD -sasl_username yourname -sasl_password yourpassword -sasl_mechanism PLAIN ExampleNet

We should be good to go. Ready?

/join #raspberrypi
(Or the channel of your choice preceded by #
Interestingly there is a #hive channel but I don't think it's used?)

And that's it. There is a whole host of plugins on the irssi website and a whole host of "Look & Feel" configuration you can do but I'll leave you to investigate that. I wish we used IRC rather Discord as we used to say in the glory days of Open Source: "We don't need no stinking GUI"

Enjoy

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