node-red-node-irc ================= A Node-RED node to talk to an IRC server. **Note** : This is the same node as is/was in the core of Node-RED. If you already have it installed you do NOT need this node. However it will be deprecated from the core in due course, at which point you will need to install it from here if still required. Install ------- Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install, usually this is ~/.node-red . npm install node-red-node-irc During install there may be multiple messages about libiconv charset support. These report as failure to compile errors - but are warnings and the node will still install (assuming nothing else failed) and you'll be able to use it, just not the character set features. Usage ----- Provides two nodes - one to receive messages, and one to send. ###Input Connects to an IRC server to receive messages.

The **IRC Server** field needs to be configured to a valid server, and you must select a default channel to join. You may join multiple channels by comma separating a list - #chan1,#chan2,#etc. Incoming messages will appear as **msg.payload** on the first output, while **msg.topic** will contain who it is from. **msg.to** contains either the name of the channel or PRIV in the case of a pm. The second output provides a **msg.payload** that has any status messages such as joins, parts, kicks etc. The type of the status message is set as **msg.payload.type**. The possible status types are: - **message** : message is sent into the channel - **pm** : private message to the bot - **join** : a user joined the channel (also triggered when the bot joins a channel) - **invite** : the bot is being invited to a channel - **part** : a user leaves a channel - **quit** : a user quits a channe - **kick** : a user is kicked from a channel ###Output Sends messages to a channel on an IRC server. You can send just the **msg.payload**, or the complete **msg** object to the selected channel, or you can select to use **msg.topic** to send the **msg.payload** to a specific user (private message) or channel. If multiple output channels are listed (eg. #chan1,#chan2), then the message will be sent to all of them. **Note:** you can only send to channels you have previously joined so they MUST be specified in the node - even if you then decide to use a subset of them in msg.topic You may send RAW commands using **msg.raw** - This must contain an array of parameters - eg. ["privmsg","#nodered","Hello world"]