ZNC Buffer Questions
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automaticfts · 2020-10-05 02:10

Hey all,

I'm brand new to IRC. I've read and watched as many videos as I could
find on best practices and setups for IRC, and I'm now set with
HexChat on my computer & Igloo on my iPhone. I have a ZNC set up, and
everything is working properly but I'm confused about some features as
I try to fine tune my setup.

* I want to be able to keep HexChat open and running on my PC 24/7
* I want to be able to pop in and out of Igloo whenever and catch up
on messages in the channel.
* I want to be able both clients to retain messages (without repeating
ZNC log) for the past 48 hours, or so.

My understanding is that the ZNC buffer setup is what allows me to
accomplish this. What do you all, who have been using it forever, have
your perfect settings as? I enabled "buffextras" but found that I
don't care about joins, parts, etc. Messages is really the only thing
that I care about seeing.

* Is there any reason to enable/disable "Auto Clear Chan Buffer"
and/or "Auto Clear Query Buffer"?
* What do you find to be a good setting for Channels "Default Modes" &
"Buffer Size"?

Thanks in advance for any guidance and insight that you can provide!

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nubatpython · 2020-10-05 08:01

I have been using znc for a while now and I find that I get duplicated
messages a lot. It's fine since if I need anything I can just run a
text search on the hexchat log files. I have my znc message buffer set
to 100, since the channels I am on are mainly filled with join and
leave messages. I don't think I set any channel default modes, I'm
just using the default. I haven't used Igloo before so I can't really
give much advice about setting that up. If I need to check messages on
mobile, I just ssh to my raspberry pi and use irssi to connect to znc.
I don't really see any reason to set auto clear buffers, I'm just
using the default settings with the features I want turned on

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DarienLambert · 2020-10-05 21:43

Add the [clientbuffer](https://wiki.znc.in/Clientbuffer) plugin and
then login to your ZNC like `username@identifier/NetworkName:password`

Add `autoadd` to the arguments in your webadmin console or turn on
autoadd before you reconnect so that new devices get automatically
added. The `identifier` should be like `pc247hexchat` or `iglooiphone`
so each client has their own.

With clientbuffer, you'll get just the buffer that device hasn't seen
and you'll get what you want.

Uncheck auto clear chan/query buffers.

Then enable the log/scrollback in your clients for the number of lines
you want so they can show what happened prior (like igloo and hexchat)
since it won't replay the buffer to that client again that already saw
it.

Add in buffextras like you have as well if you want the join/parts.

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automaticfts · 2020-10-06 00:46

this is great info, thank you! i may be back with some specific
questions haha. this will certainly get me started