Inactive [CHAT] MinecraftBot - Easy to use Minecraft-IRC chat integration

MinecraftBot is a plugin that joins an IRC channel as a bot. The bot displays messages coming from Minecraft and sends messages to Minecraft that come from IRC.

The goal of this plugin is to be simple and easy to set up:

1. Load the plugin
2. Edit at least two lines in config.yml
3. Reload the plugin

Download, source code and more info: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/irc-minecraftbot/

 

Looks very promising. Testing now. Will post the results. And perhaps some screen caps.

 

So what does this plugin actually do???

 

Hi, I was wondering whether this has integration with Nickserv? Also possibly can you set colours?

Other than that, nice job. User friendly and simple.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Im Having a Problem Where I Can Server/Console Messages In The IRC But Not Player Chat

 

It can authenticate with NickServ and use /msg nickserv ghost if it's necessary, but that's about it.
You can customize the colors shown on certain messages in the config file too. The default is teal for events and red for kicks and deaths, but it can be changed to whatever you want. You can even enter "normal" if you don't want any color on those lines.

Could you be more specific? Are you using the command in the console or as a player? Also, do you have any plugins installed that also handle that command?

 

Sorry I Ment I Can See Consle/Server and Join Messages In The IRC From Minecraft But Not The Player Chat

Like If I Say Hello In The IRC You See That In The Server
But If Some One Says Hello Back In The Minecraft Server I Cant See It In The IRC

 

Well... it could be one of two things. Either Minecraft chat has been disabled in the config file ('chat: false' under 'mc' which is under 'event') or you have a plugin installed that's not letting the chat reach this plugin.

 

Chat is Set To True Do You Know Any Reported Incompatable Plugins

 

None that I know of. What other plugins are you using?

 

Could you add support for the actual visual side of things on Minecraft.
E.g. (Normal) #Tally: Blaaabba
(Changed) !Tally:Hi
Or custom IRC|Tally:Hi

 

I am thinking of doing that soon enough. I'm going to end up being busy this week, so I may have that done by next week. Maybe sooner, maybe later. I'm not making any promises. I do have an idea of how to do this though.

 

I am having a problem related to reloading the server. The only thing I can do is stop and re-start it. Any ideas?

 

I'm not exactly sure what you mean. If you mean disconnecting and reconnecting from the IRC server, I've noticed that as well. It sometimes seems to think that it's still connected long after it should have noticed that it's not. I tried for so long to figure out where that problem could be coming from. The only thing that can be done right now is that if the plugin disconnects from the server and it doesn't know it, it's better to just reload the plugin so it can try connecting again.

By the way, I'm nearly done with adding the formatting options. I haven't had the chance to test it properly yet but that will be done by the end of today.

Edit: New version (v1.2.1) is up on BukkitDev. Adds support for formatting options that many people have requested and supports some new Minecraft control codes such as bold and underline.

 

Needs youtube video

 

Don't worry, Turned out to be another plugin! Thanks for the Formatting!

 

Looks very good. Maybe we will try it out

 

There seems to be a conflict between this plugin and the Factions plugin. Can you please help me fix the issue (or possibly integrate support for Factions) as I can only receive messages from the IRC but messages from in-game Minecraft do not show up in the IRC channel. It's like a one-way route for the messages probably due to factions adding a new factions prefix and the irc plugin not being able to detect the modified playername. Thanks.

Here is the link to the Factions chat configuration page. I'm still trying to figure this out: http://massivecraft.com/plugins/factions/config#Chat_configuration

 

I don't use Factions and I'm not able to test it at the moment but based on what I saw in its source code, the code for handling messages hasn't been updated in a month so this wouldn't really be a new thing.
The only way chat messages are blocked from other plugins is when the chat mode is set to "faction" or "alliance." It also seems to block chat messages if relation colors are enabled. The only way they're passed through to the rest of the plugins is when the mode is set to "public."

If it's not that and it is what you say it is with a modified player name, does it cause an error to appear in the server log? If it does, could you paste it here?

 

Hmm, there doesn't seem to be any error printed in the server console. Right now, I have only these two plugins and still nothing is showing up in the IRC. I removed all other plugins including the ChatManager and the Permissions plugin.

 

I just tried it myself. For now, the way to fix it is to disable relation tagging which removes colors from faction names. You do it with the command "/f config chatTagRelationColored false"

I'll look into adding support for Factions. I'll probably come across something that completely fixes this problem.

 

I tried the config chatTagRelation and set it to false like you said, and the messages do seem to be working. But they are shown in white on the IRC channel so I have to highlight them with the mouse in order to see the words lol.

 

Unfortunately I couldn't find anything. I guess if you want to use Factions with this plugin, that config value needs to be set to false.

In the end, I did manage to add Factions support to the plugin. That will be for the next version, though. The next version is a complete rewrite of the plugin which will make it better for users to customize the lines created by it and easier for me (and maybe others) to add new features to it or for other plugins to be able to send their messages to IRC.

 

Sounds great. I'm looking forward to the next update. ^_^

 

got a the following error while /reload ing:

PHP:

17:32:12 [SEVERE] Cannot load plugins/MinecraftBot/config.yml
org.bukkit.configuration.InvalidConfigurationException: unacceptable character '�' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
in "<string>", position 393
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:55)
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:143)
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:109)
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(YamlConfiguration.java:177)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.reloadConfig(JavaPlugin.java:117)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.getConfig(JavaPlugin.java:111)
at com.avisenera.minecraftbot.Configuration.getConfigFile(Configuration.java:164)
at com.avisenera.minecraftbot.Configuration.load(Configuration.java:39)
at com.avisenera.minecraftbot.MinecraftBot.onEnable(MinecraftBot.java:24)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:215)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:336)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:381)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:250)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:232)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.reload(CraftServer.java:543)
at org.bukkit.Bukkit.reload(Bukkit.java:182)
at org.bukkit.command.defaults.ReloadCommand.execute(ReloadCommand.java:22)
at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:166)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:473)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.dispatchServerCommand(CraftServer.java:469)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.b(MinecraftServer.java:596)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:565)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:449)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492)
Caused by: unacceptable character '�' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
in "<string>", position 393
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.checkPrintable(StreamReader.java:70)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.<init>(StreamReader.java:50)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:399)
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:53)
... 23 more
17:32:12 [SEVERE] Cannot load configuration from stream
org.bukkit.configuration.InvalidConfigurationException: unacceptable character '�' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
in "<string>", position 2677
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:55)
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration.load(FileConfiguration.java:143)
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadConfiguration(YamlConfiguration.java:206)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.reloadConfig(JavaPlugin.java:121)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.getConfig(JavaPlugin.java:111)
at com.avisenera.minecraftbot.Configuration.getConfigFile(Configuration.java:164)
at com.avisenera.minecraftbot.Configuration.load(Configuration.java:39)
at com.avisenera.minecraftbot.MinecraftBot.onEnable(MinecraftBot.java:24)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:215)
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:336)
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:381)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:250)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:232)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.reload(CraftServer.java:543)
at org.bukkit.Bukkit.reload(Bukkit.java:182)
at org.bukkit.command.defaults.ReloadCommand.execute(ReloadCommand.java:22)
at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:166)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:473)
at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.CraftServer.dispatchServerCommand(CraftServer.java:469)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.b(MinecraftServer.java:596)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:565)
at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:449)
at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492)
Caused by: unacceptable character '�' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
in "<string>", position 2677
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.checkPrintable(StreamReader.java:70)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.reader.StreamReader.<init>(StreamReader.java:50)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:399)
at org.bukkit.configuration.file.YamlConfiguration.loadFromString(YamlConfiguration.java:53)
... 22 more
17:32:12 [SEVERE] [MinecraftBot] Configuration is invalid. Check your syntax. (Remove any tab characters.)
17:32:12 [SEVERE] [MinecraftBot] Error loading the configuration. Reload the plugin to try again.


heres my config.yml:
http://paste2.org/p/1972777

edit: i found out that the 393rd character is probably the "§" and the 2677th character doesn't exist in the config.yml. The configuration is also UTF-8 encoded.

edit2: yaml-online-parser doesn't find any errors.

 

Yeah, I found out about the problem and left a note of it on the download page. All you can do right now is use a text editor to replace that bad character with the section symbol. I'm going to check what to do about that soon enough. Those errors will show up on the console each time the configuration is loaded for now, but if everything about the configuration is good then it shouldn't get in the way of anything.

That specific error you had where it's asking you to check your syntax probably means that something's written wrong in the file. I noticed on the channel line you have a \ in front of the channel name. That could be what's causing the problem.

Edit: I put up a new version. If you keep getting problems, just delete your old file, have the new version generate a new one and use that.

 

i have a problem with the new version
ok so it loads and connects fine but it wont show anything chat wise so you can say something in-game but doesnt show up on irc but if you say somethign on irc it DOES show up in-game oh and the faction variable is nice but here's what weird, if i dont have the faction system it works as it should but with the faction system it does not work right

 

No matter what I do in vim, I can't get § to work right. I ended up removing all comments and § characters in Notepad, then pasting the barebones results back into vim. I still get the errors already mentioned, but the bot connects and everything works fine. It's bizarre.

We really miss not having color, though. If you can work out a different special character, that would be great.

Love how streamlined this plugin in. Other than this color issue, it's fantastic. Exactly what we want. Thanks for the hard work.

 

Factions interferes with this plugin unless you run the command '/f config chatTagRelationColored false' which disables colors in faction tags in-game. There's no other way of making it work.

Yeah... With all the problems people are having with it, I'm probably going to end up doing exactly that, and possibly using '&' as the character like most other plugins use.

Thank you. I worked a lot to make sure this plugin is as streamlined as it can be while also giving the users choices on how it works. Glad to hear that it's working well.

 

Reloading is a bad thing and it often cause errors/bugs/exploits and even crashes. When installing a new plugin or configgin a plugin should you always restart/reboot and not reload. a good idea is to get a local server with Exact same maps, plugins and configs as the main server and test new plugins there to check for imcompetebillity(Proberly spelled it wrong), or other bugs. I will try install the plugin later and make a video on how to install it. but its currently 11:38 PM for me so im gonna wait for tmr.