Remote "tell" and "chat"

[spoulsen]

Does anyone know of a script that can take the in-game /tell and send it to a remote PC? Ideally I would like to have all of this:

1) Send received tells to remote PC
2) Allow typing of responses from remote PC which will be sent in the game using /tell
3) Receive selected channels text to display remotely.
4) Allow typing back to the channels, remotely.

It looks like one could use the VG extension and IRC extension to implement this easily. If it doesn't exist, I will do that. The only question I have is there seems to be no VG_OnTell event. VG_OnIncomingText looks like it could do it, but the documentation does not say so.

Thanks

 

[Cr4zyb4rd]

Against my better judgment, I'm approving this thread. Your question's already been answered numerous times, though it would probably take a bit of research and effort to compile all the information and summarize it.

 

[spudman]

The only question I have is there seems to be no VG_OnTell event. VG_OnIncomingText looks like it could do it, but the documentation does not say so.

VG_OnIncomingText 'is' your VG_OnTell function. Write test scripts or look at other scripts such as a few of the alarm and auto-response scripts available for samples on how to use it. Heck there's a small sample just below your post in this very forum giving basic tell usage.

This function in combination with isxirc's events, etc. is more than enough to do all the things you want to do. Uplink is another option, but it's focus seems to be a little more along the lines of sending IS/isxvg commands to other IS sessions. I'm using isxirc as a better 'interaction' tool between characters, but since IRC is so standard you can use it as a communication tool amongst just about anything.

 

[spoulsen]

I apologize for the bad post. After much searching, I think I can come to the conclusion that no one has such a script. Many thanks.

(btw, I did find the post below mine, but it wasn't obvious as the subject is vague)

 

[spudman]

yeah I guess I ignored your very first question. The answer is no, this script doesn't exist out of the box, afaik. However, all the functionality you are looking for is possible and actually quite a bit of it is already out there. You just need to plug something like vgalarm into isxirc or something else.

 

[don'tdoit]

actually, if you look around you'll find an existing script that already does exactly this. it also does the ALICE AI auto-response thing, but you can remove or just not use that feature. I wrote it, somebody else released it so it won't be under a thread that I started. Look around, it's ALL there...

 

[spoulsen]

spudman

Oh, I forgot to mention...your post was very helpful!

dontdoit: Thanks. I will try to find it.

 

[Karye]

If you choose to tackle this issue in .net I suggest using .net's remoting api instead of innnerspace session communication its much more robust, scaleable and secure.

The eq2 forums have additional information on getting your feet wet with session relaying in innerspace along with the places metioned above.

 

[spoulsen]

Thanks, I may be looking at the .NET soon. My initial setup is working well for what I need, however, I would prefer to put it all together in a more "release-able" way.

Here is my setup now...

ircrelay/irccontrol:

I modified it slightly for some custom channels I use and also so that /tells come to me three ways: PM in irc, email, and in the "chan1" as before. Mail is not working, but I haven't investigated it yet. Also modified it to allow different users (private IRC server) to control.

vgalarm:

Fonts are strange, but manually editing the settings file works.

Blackberry IRC:

This is what I use to see the action and respond if I get a /tell. Once I am sure the email and PM are working, I will probably only use IRC when I get mail so that the battery life is not so bad.

 

[bigxiz]

personally I use a remote desktop program for it. remote into the computer that is running VG then view and interact with it via the remote desktop. You can't really play the game being this slow, but you can chat, and move around if botting anyways.