Bot's presence ack

[roughnecks]

Hello,
is there a way for me to check bot's status (online/offline/relaying) from Telegram?
I mean, if I haven't joined IRC but am only sitting on Telegram group, do I have any way to check whether the bot is properly running and relaying?

Thanks

[26000]

Well, for now, you can type /help or ping it in DM, and if it replies, then it's running. I'll think about making some /status command. It should definitely be possible to tell Telegram users if irchuu is in the IRC channel, but I'm not quite sure about the reverse.

[roughnecks]

I'm running the bot at home and sometimes my connection fails so I'd like to be 100% sure it's properly connected to IRC; not sure if querying the bot on Telegram may be sufficient...

[roughnecks]

Hi, thanks for this, I just upgraded my bot but it keeps saying that:
"IRC bot is online and (almost certainly) not in channel." when it actually is in channel.

[26000]

Oh. What IRC network are you connected to? Maybe I picked a bad way to check whether the bot is in channel (I'm not aware of any other way though, so if I can't get this to work, I'll only be able to report if the bot is online).

[roughnecks]

I'm on freenode.

[26000]

Thanks! Tested it on Freenode, turns out their servers send the channel name and a space after it, which is why IRChuu thought it's not the channel it should be on. I fixed it in 5218ad4. Also now it won't say it's not on channel if it didn't receive a reply from server in two seconds (default, configurable as statustimeout in IRC config section), instead saying it was unable to find out.

[roughnecks]

Sorry to bother you once again, but my bot is still reporting wrong info:

IRC bot is online and (almost certainly) not in channel.

I didn't change a bit in my config, still connected to freenode.

[26000]

Did it start happening after it's been online for a while or does it happen after each restart?

[roughnecks]

Not sure but I launched the bot at 11:30 this morning (3 and half hours passed) and I just issued the /status command with the following result:

IRC bot is online and (almost certainly) not in channel.