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My wife uses thelounge (self-hosted instance) as a progressive web application on her Android phone. It supports push notifications and file uploads. Before t
by pbui 7y ago
My wife uses thelounge (self-hosted instance) as a progressive web application on her Android phone. It supports push notifications and file uploads. Before this, she used IRC Cloud, which also has a convenient mobile application with those features.
As for myself, I use Weechat-Android (for about 6 years now) and am very happy with that on my Android phone. It uses a websocket with SSL, so I get notifications and it uses very little battery (or data).
- me551ah 7y agoIRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right? Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected.
- pbui 7y ago> IRC cloud is paid with a monthly subscription right? That is correct, although there is a free tier, which my wife used for a while. The only major downside to the free tier is that IRC Cloud disconnects after two hours of idle activity. > Are you using weechat as a relay for the Android client or is it a standalone irc client? Cause to receive notifications a websocket will still have to be always connected. The former. I have a weechat instance (it is a terminal IRC client) on a VPS (the same one also running my wife's instance of thelounge) that I normally use when I'm on my laptop. On my phone, I use Weechat-Android as a relay client to the weechat instance. So the websocket connection on my phone talks to my weechat relay. Fortunately, Weechat-Android handles connecting and disconnecting seemlessly, and I don't have a problem with notifications.