Irssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its text mode user interface, but 80% of the code isn’t text mode specific. Irssi comes with IRC support built in, and there are third party […] protocol modules available. — Github: irssi
Currently all chat and conference tools are used. Time to reactivate irssi. I have a Raspberry Pi in my network and therefore it would be ideal to be always online. I don’t know how old this Raspberry Pi image is and therefore only an old irssi version is installed.
I could update the Raspberry Pi, create a new image or use Docker. The first two options could also be combined with Docker, so I skip them and just install Docker on this old image:
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh - && \
usermod -aG docker pi
Download Docker, install it and add the docker group to the pi user. This takes some time, so I run screen, in case my host goes to sleep 😴.
Docker Hub has an arm32v7/irssi Docker image for the Raspberry Pi. There is also an example how to run this image. I adapted it a bit because I want to write the config file on my Raspberry Pi (and the log files as well).
docker run -it --name irssi -e TERM -u $(id -u):$(id -g) \
--log-driver=none \
-v $HOME/.irssi:/home/user/.irssi \
-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
arm32v7/irssi
Now I’m online …
