smells nice. Gonna test it

Does this relay prevent persons banned or blacklisted from the one org to take part in chat via relay? Would such a filter be fesable to impliment?

How does the relay bot work? Is it possible for anyone to join a relay channel? Are one notified as new bots attach to the relay?

I haven't looked at the module yet, but the ide is very nice and if done right security wise it would be a major improvement over the old way.

Good job!

Well, back from the long weekend.  Glad to see some people are at least interested in this a bit. 


Since I just use a !setting, it's really only designed for 1 bot.

The way I figure it, if you're using a relay bot you can have as many bots as you want, but you still only need 1 relay bot.  If you just have a simple 2 org setup, then you still only need 1 bot to relay to, just it's not a central bot.

If you need multiple relay bots, then you're looking to do something out of the norm anyway.



Agreed, this should be a central rather than relay specific feature.

Though you may want to ban someone from using the bots commands, but not from having their text relayed.  Hmm, and the tricky part will be that even if you ban someone from your bot, if the person is getting relayed you'll still see their chat no matter what.

Maybe I'll throw in an option "Relay banned users text" or something.


All I did for the relay channel was take a normal Bebot, rip out all the plugins I could, lock down all the remaining commands to Owner only, then setup the bots I wanted to join as members with autoinvite for them on.

This way no one can join the bot, even if they're a member of it (that shouldn't ever happen, but...).

Since the relay module autoaccepts invites, the bots will join the relay chan when they get the invite (on log), and the relay connection is made.

So all in all *VERY* simple, really.

As I mentioned before I do need to fix it to confirm that the invite is from the bot set as the relay....

Anyway, there's currently no notification on joining the relay.  I've always found those to be quite annoying myself. 

One of my future goals is to bring in everything relay related into one unified plugin.  Still need to bring member join/parts into that, which would be easier if the formatting done was a core plugin rather than the customized one in the logon plugin.


Updated to make it more coherent.  Writing at 2:30 in the morning after driving for 13 hours over the weekend FTL.

Looks like nice work, I do have two suggestions though:

• add color schemes for the channel name, user and chat string, so people that want to change them can do so during runtime.
• add settings for guest channel name (priv group) and org name on sending side, so if people want to use shortcuts they can do that

Both are mostly for convenienve

Yes, they can be configured as they are part of the theme in use. But any changes there are global changes for all modules using the theme colors.

If you use schemes that default to the theme colors you are using it will work the same as now if people like the colors or are happy with the global theme colors. But if people want to use specific colors for their relay they can change them easy, without influencing other modules.

Nice work.

I fear if we put it into SVN we'll have to move to tells as default (as that's the expected and easiest setup, needing only the two bots that are in the relay).

Commited to SVN.

Did some slight changes to a few settings (type), and added some additional safety conditions where I felt they are needed, as well as using normal as default for all schemes.
I added a relay_to_bot($string) function too, which relays $string without any further changes to the relay bot except adding "<pre>gcr ". This can be used in other modules to relay text too.

Adapted the other modules using the relay too.