Brad Murray mentioned a Discord RPG server invitation on G+ and I remembered hanging out on the OSR Discord server. I clicked the link and indeed, there was a different “server” with a different channels, including a separate #osr channel. OK, why not.
But I don’t want to use the app, I don’t want to use the website, I want to use IRC. Specifically, I want to use the Bitlbee server I usually run. And there apparently is a Discord plugin for Bitlbee! Now I just need to get it up and running…
alex@Megabombus:~$ brew search bitlbee bitlbee ✔ alex@Megabombus:~$ cd src alex@Megabombus:~/src$ git clone https://github.com/sm00th/bitlbee-discord.git Cloning into 'bitlbee-discord'... ... alex@Megabombus:~/src$ cd bitlbee-discord/ alex@Megabombus:~/src/bitlbee-discord (master=)$ ./autogen.sh ... alex@Megabombus:~/src/bitlbee-discord (master=)$ ./configure ... alex@Megabombus:~/src/bitlbee-discord (master=)$ make ... alex@Megabombus:~/src/bitlbee-discord (master=)$ mkdir /usr/local/lib/bitlbee alex@Megabombus:~/src/bitlbee-discord (master=)$ make install ... alex@Megabombus:~/src/bitlbee-discord (master=)$ bitlbee -n -D -v -d ~/.bitlbee -c ~/.bitlbee/bitlbee.conf
Without creating this directory myself, it wouldn’t work. I also ignored the message telling me to `remember to run 'libtool --finish /usr/local/lib/bitlbee/'`. It just didn’t work and so I ignored it.
The last line is how I start the server from Emacs... 😄
My IRC client connected to the bitlbee server and in `&bitlbee`:
<kensanata> plugins
<root> Plugin Version
<root> bitlbee-discord 0.3.1
<root>
<root> Enabled Protocols: discord, hipchat, identica, jabber, msn,
oscar, twitter
There it is!
<kensanata> account add discord kensanata@gmail.com *secret* <root> Account successfully added with tag discord <kensanata> account discord on <root> discord - Logging in: Starting MFA authentication
And indeed, a new nick was talking to me!
<discord_mfa> Two-factor auth is enabled. Please respond to this
message with your token.
<kensanata> *token*
And it worked!
<kensanata> chat list discord
<root> Index Title Topic
[...]
<root> 18 RPG.traveller RPG Talk/traveller
[...]
<root> 22 RPG.osr RPG Talk/osr
[...]
<root> 39 RPG.game_design This is where we
talk about RPG system design.
[...]
<root> 50 RPG.indie_games RPG
Talk/indie_games
[...]
<root> 81 RPG.game_masters RPG
Talk/game_masters
..
<root> 92 RPG.announcements Important community
announcements. Moderator-only posting.
[...]
<root> 95 RPG.general Support RPG Talk at
https://www.patreon.com/rpg_talk - Help us provide prizes at
<#320366704020684821>. Type `“/roll 1d20”` to roll.
[...]
<root> 105 OSR.general Unloved Monsters.
Which ones lie on the scrap heap, yet to be reclaimed by some OSR
blogger? Can we fix them?
<kensanata> chat add discord !18 #rpg-traveller
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #rpg-traveller set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
<kensanata> chat add discord !22 #rpg-osr
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #rpg-osr set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
<kensanata> chat add discord !39 #rpg-game-design
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #rpg-game-design set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
<kensanata> chat add discord !50 #rpg-indie-games
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #rpg-indie-games set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
<kensanata> chat add discord !81 #rpg-game-masters
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #rpg-game-masters set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
<kensanata> chat add discord !92 #rpg-announcements
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #rpg-announcements set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
<kensanata> chat add discord !95 #rpg-general
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #rpg-general set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
<kensanata> chat add discord !105 #osr-general
<root> Chatroom successfully added.
<kensanata> chan #osr-general set auto_join true
<root> auto_join = `true'
OK, this was tedious! And we’re not done, yet. All of that was just to get the mapping from Discord servers and rooms to IRC channels.
<kensanata> /join #rpg-traveller <kensanata> /join #rpg-osr <kensanata> /join #rpg-game-design <kensanata> /join #rpg-indie-games <kensanata> /join #rpg-game-masters <kensanata> /join #rpg-announcements <kensanata> /join #rpg-general <kensanata> /join #osr-general
And then there is one more thing: you need to add them to the auto-join list of your IRC client. Gaaaaaah! That took longer than expected.
We’ll see how it goes.
#OSX #IRC #Bitlbee #Discord
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Oh wow. I read the Howto Facebook MQTT page and installed the plugin. And it works! The only thing I had to do was `brew install json-glib`.
– Alex 2017-08-11 09:20 UTC
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As for Windows:
– Alex Schroeder 2020-01-27 09:38 UTC