What is it?

jabber_away is a script for irssi. Its goal is to reflect on IRC your presence on Jabber: for example, when you go away on Jabber, you are automatically set away on irssi. When you come back on Jabber, you are marked as back on irssi as well. This way, you don't have to bother with saying it everywhere when you are away :)

Variables

jabber_id and jabber_password are the only mandatory parameters.

Name	Description	Default value
jabber_id	The jabber account to use (laura@hello.net, alfonso@foo.org/Home)
jabber_password	The password of the jabber account
jabber_server	Manually specify a different server (foo.com, foo.com:4242)	(server part of jabber_id)
jabber_server_reconnect_time	Time to wait if connection fails	(server_reconnect_time)
jabber_id_to_watch	The JID to watch.	(jabber_id)
jabber_away_listen	Which states should be reflected. Possible values are: online,chat, away, xa (extended away), dnd (do not disturb), unavailable.	online unavailable away xa dnd chat
jabber_away_refresh	The time between two checks of incoming Jabber packets. You will have to unload then reload for changes to take effect	2sec

Notes

This script needs the Perl library Net::XMPP to work.
This is still a development version! See the TODO list inside the code to see what's up.
The script only reacts to presence information when it gets some. It's still your job to make sure you've subscribed to the watched JID's presence.

Installation

Of course, you need Irssi.
Download the script in your ~/.irssi/scripts directory.
Back in Irssi, set the variables appropriately (at least jabber_id and jabber_password)
Type /script load jabber_away

Troubleshooting

The jabber_away_refresh value is badly defined and prevents the script from loading

The format of this parameter was recently changed from 'int' to 'time', which causes irssi to bug on it. You will have to:

/save
remove 'jabber_away_refresh' manually from '~/.irssi/config'
/reload

Authors

This script is being written by David Ammouial.