anyone here use Slack? I do, at work. channel poll: any interest if we had a public Slack channel? We have a private one for ops'y stuff... I've been using Slack for a while for various other projects, but I'm not a power user the main reason I like it is because notifications weechat-android is good, but drains my battery, so I tend to leave it off I wouldn't join a Slack group unless I had to. roger that But there's possibly a large group of people who feel that way about IRC and aren't even in here to voice that. Can Slack be bridged with IRC? there are slack/discord bots so i suspect so There's a weeslack plugin for weechat. And there is an official IRC bridge that everyone tries for a bit. oh? did it work well? how have you found using slack in a work context mike-burns ? I like using Slack at work because there's a 0% chance I'll open it outside of work, which helps enforce a work/life balance. haha (I, uh, really dislike using Slack.) haha speaking of bots, a bot in here could be nice BryceBot: o/ \o Maybe a bot that sends a notification to up_the_irons when someone says his nick -- this could help with his battery issue? one that can kick that thing that comes in sounds more like the job for a client script or possibly a bouncer? Oh true. https://weechat.org/scripts/stable/tag/notify/ there are a lot push*.* seem to be the mobile device ones. what is libnotify? I think that's GONME? GNOME the mac notification thing seemed more popular hmm pushsafer may be good? I don't see their pricing. that's what i'm trying to find :) Same with Notify My Android. 1000 additional API calls0.99 EUR (0.99 EUR / 1000 API Calls) https://www.pushsafer.com/en/faq#answer2 Aha nice sleuthing. That's not bad. yeah it's cheaper if you buy more but seems reasonably affordable i suspect that something free will have terrible mobile clients it's funny how a fundamental functionality of the communications network has been monopolized, isn't it? yeah actually there really should be something free that is good enough Maybe Pushjet is free but you have to host it yourself? And I do know a good host ... hehe :-) More clients are under development; Web, Linux (GTK), Windows and OS X. so it's android only atm and i don't see an apple one but it's bsd licensed.. Maybe someone else has made an iOS one. i don't use ios Nor do I. but it might hurt adoption a little That's what she said!! BryceBot: no Oh, okay... I'm sorry. 'but it might hurt adoption a little' I think on iOS you can't because apps just get terminated in the background when RAM is tight or something? they even host the website on github a bot to send notifications is an idea, but then the question is, *how* does that thing to do it? i'd like a push notification to my phone. but yeah, you guys are already looking at the push related services I don't see a third-party iOS implementation on GH, either. Oh well. up_the_irons: yeh this one is free even up_the_irons: Android or iOS? i'm still trying to figure out how to run the server... mike-burns: android the weechat side i think is easy but this has multiple uses... A+. you could notify all kinds of things :) mercutio: which one are you looking at? pushjet ah https://github.com/Pushjet/Pushjet-Server-Api.git think this is the server But you might need the connectors and server-broker? Very unclear how this fits. Maybe there are docs ... hmm pushjet seems kinda cool yeah i can't find good docs is that using its own protocol, or just an interface to google's push service? it uses GCM (google cloud messaging) i wonder if this is too alpha because then I think you have to pay google for access? seems a little alpha yeah I thought GCM is free. is it? https://onesignal.com/ is this free? > Latest commit 7ddb7df on Oct 21, 2016 yaeh i think it's not stable enough err established enough I don't understand why OneSignal is "100% Free". support contracts for heavy users i think https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/15/onesignal-series-a/ OK that makes sense. it’s free for customers if they’re willing to share their interest and transaction data with large brands and advertisers, who can then use that data for better targeting. From a privacy perspective, Deglin said it’s similar to sharing user data with an ad network. oh. another option would be just use SMS? :-) you still need sms gateway and then you pay per sms Email->SMS well, sure, it's not free, but at least it's not a monopoly idk, the current tech should allow to message without sms also i reckon it's better if can respond too :) He just needs to know that he should open weechat-android. This is what Yo is for! http://www.justyo.co/ https://airnotifier.github.io/ and in principle, you only need a mobile phone, in which case you in principle even could support responses via SMS ;-) am i missing something with this? Anyway, many phone providers offer email->SMS gateways, e.g. 5551234567@txt.att.net sends a text message. mercutio: that needs an app on the other end. (well, and a SIM, obviously) oh so it doesn't provide apps? Right yeah, it's used by app developers. this is way harder than i thought it'd be :) onesignal looked promising, but harvesting user data sounds Evil (TM) yeah in theory i could just do email to SMS but it just feels crude If you're willing to spend 1EUR/mo, you could try the Pushsafer weechat plugin. i recon we've spent more than 1EU/mo just talking about this Ha! pushsafer was free for the first API calls too well pushsafer looked interesting but i can't for the life of me figure out how to create a private key it just shows blank where it should be their built in notifier has the same issue :) I've been using https://weechat.org/scripts/source/pushover.pl.html/ for a few months pushover isn't free but it works well and it's made/run by an openbsd dude!