weechat znc playback

yeah. i still use irc. tested and true. typical config is to use znc for this and connect a client. weechat is a nice client to use in a shell. so i wanted the playback to work correctly. this assumes that you have weechat connected to znc already. there are a few things that make it a little nicer for playback. 

** in weechat **

/script

look for the zncplayback script
alt+i to install and autoload. if you don't see "a" then alt+A (capital A)

ia r  zncplayback.py            0.2.2 0.2.2   2022-02-05 | Add support for the ZNC Playback module.

/set

irc.server_default.capabilities  string  "account-notify,away-notify,cap-notify,multi-prefix,server-time,znc.in/self-message,znc.in/playback"

plugins.var.python.zncplayback.servers  string  "server"

** or if you have more than one server using znc...

plugins.var.python.zncplayback.servers  string  "server1,server2,server3"

logger.look.backlog                      integer  5000 
relay.irc.backlog_max_number             integer  0 
relay.irc.backlog_since_last_disconnect  boolean  on 
logger.file.color_lines                  boolean  on
logger.file.flush_delay                  integer  0 
logger.look.backlog                      integer  5000
irc.look.buffer_open_before_join      boolean  on 
irc.look.buffer_switch_autojoin       boolean  off
irc.look.display_extended_join        boolean  off 
irc.look.display_host_join            boolean  off 
irc.look.display_host_join_local      boolean  off
irc.look.display_join_message         string   ""

** DON'T FORGET TO SAVE **
/save

that should just about do it. weechat logs channels to files. so with the zncplayer plugin it will replay local backlog then begin replaying what you missed from when znc quit / disconnected / whatever. this is probably the smoothest transition i’ve been able to get with this so it looks a little more seamless and displays playback as expected. the logger.file.color_lines is optional but it keeps things uniform. you can probably turn that off i you want to be able to quickly identify the backlog vs the znc playback but i tend to just care that it all looks the same.

i got rid of the join message stuff too. these are the topic and user count nonsense that pop up every time you join a channel. the problem is that when you start weechat it assumes it is a typical irc server connect. i guess it is. but that stuff makes the znc playback look ugly so i just got rid of all of them by making it “”. by default you’ll see a bunch of numbers there.