Note
 I’m not really interested in working on this anymore, as it fulfills my need. However, I can understand someone else might want to try the same, so I put the code online to avoid double work.

1. What’s pyrssi?

pyrssi is a successor for irssi-mobile. It provides a WAP interface so that you can control your client from your mobile phone.

2. Why is it better than irssi-mobile?

  • handles private messaging (that was the most important for me)

  • it allows you do anything, join/part channels, op, kick, etc.

  • it fetches the last lines from the window’s buffer so that you’ll see everything you see in your client, including joins/quits, /names output, etc.

  • it uses a unix socket, rather than a port, which is quite useful in multiuser environment

  • other reasons I forgot ;)

3. How does it work?

First you need socket-interface.pl so that you’ll have a socket in your ~/.irssi/socket. Then you need pyrssi.py, that cgi will connect to the socket and will generate the wap pages.

Don’t forget to edit pyrssi.config: the sha1sum of your password and the socket path!

4. FAQ

Q: How frequent does it refresh?

“A: It does not. If you send an empty text then it will.”

Q: My window list is looooong. Is it possible to switch between windows without listing all of them?

“A: Yes, just use /g windownum or /g #channelname.”

Q: Is it possible to start a new query and switch to it immediately?

“A: Yes, use /q nick to to so.”

Q: I already do HTTP auth, could you please disable the built-in auth?

“A: Yes, sure. Just set your password to empty.”

Q: The activity list is too long. How to make it shorter?

“A: All channels are shown by default. You can define the list of channels to be displayed in pyrssi.config like this:”

mychans = ['#foo', '#bar']

5. Download

From GitHub.