Axel KnaufI wanted to bridge IRC to XMPP and vice versa, here's how to do this with matterbridge.
After having set up both IRC and XMPP servers on my VPS recently I realized that it's annoying to keep multiple clients running with accounts logged into each of them. So I wanted to bridge a specific IRC channel with a XMPP/Jabber group chat channel.
After a little research I went with matterbridge and set it up like this:
- Created a dedicated IRC user to join my existing channel
#lounge - IRC runs ergo with SASL auth enabled
- Created a dedicated XMPP user to join group chat
bridging - XMPP is a prosody server with
mod_mucenabled
My matterbridge.toml looks like this:
[irc]
[irc.default]
Nick="bridge"
NickServNick="bridge"
NickServPassword="secret"
Server="irc.example.org:6697"
UseTLS=true
UseSASL=true
SkipTLSVerify=false
RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "
[xmpp]
[xmpp.default]
Server="xmpp.example.org:5222"
Jid="[email protected]"
Password="secret"
Muc="muc.xmpp.example.org"
Nick="bridge"
RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "
[[gateway]]
name="irc2xmpp"
enable=true
[[gateway.inout]]
account="irc.default"
channel="#lounge"
[[gateway.inout]]
account="xmpp.default"
channel="bridging"
I've created a dedicated non-login user on my VPS, downloaded the latest binary release, verified the checksums and set up a systemd unit with this config (as per the docs):
[Unit]
Description=Matterbridge daemon
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/matterbridge/bin/matterbridge -conf /home/matterbridge/matterbridge.toml
Restart=always
RestartSec=30s
User=matterbridge
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then I ran reloaded systemd's config and enabled the service. Logging in to the two chat solutions I was able to verify that messages are sent across. Hooray for interoperability!
Having this infrastructure in place I may want to bring in all kinds of other chat protocols that are supported, .. <3
#SelfHosting #IRC #XMPP #bridge #matterbridge #interoperability #chat
GitHub - 42wim/matterbridge: bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API...
Kris