irssi: no terminal notification sound while pinged

Question

Initial Problem:

Installed a fresh copy of irssi for my terminal. All settings are default. My goal is when someone pings my username, I am alerted through a sound notification.

Initial Settings:

I went to terminal's profile preferences and checked:

terminal bell = true

I also tried a few settings within irssi:

/set beep_when_window_active ON"
/set beep_when_away ON"
/set beep_msg_level MSGS NOTICES DCC DCCMSGS HILIGHT"
/set bell_beeps ON"

After all settings, sound notification does not occur upon ping. What other settings am I missing?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '14 at 06:26

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By default, irssi looks to the computer speaker to produce sound. By default, pcspkr is not loaded in many linux distros --including, Ubuntu 13.10.

Initial Solution:

cd $HOME/.irssi/scripts # make a scripts directory if one does not already exist
wget http://scripts.irssi.org/scripts/beep_beep.pl
cp $HOME/Music/custom_beep_example.wav . # wget or cp a custom notification sound
mkdir $HOME/.irssi/scripts/autorun
cd $HOME/.irssi/scripts/autorun
ln -s ../beep_beep.pl #create symbolic link for auto-run

After running through these commands, launch up irssi in your terminal and run the following commands:

/set bell_beeps
/set beep_msg_level MSGS DCC DCCMSGS HILIGHT NOTICES
/set beep_cmd aplay -q ~/.irssi/scripts/custom_beep_example.wav
/save

That's it! You should be ready to rock-in-roll!

Options:

You can append your beep_message_level with ALL for all Levels:

/set beep_msg_level MSGS DCC DCCMSGS HILIGHT NOTICES ALL

Another option is to change the beep_flood in the perl script to 300000 (5 minutes). If you get a message on IRC within the flood time, it will not beep, otherwise, it will.

Credits go to andrew.46 and suicidefunky from ubuntu forums for finding the initial and optional solution.

answered May 23 '14 at 06:26

justinpage

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Good to see that little bit of work is still useful :). I still use this on my own system.... – andrew.46 Jun 07 '14 at 07:12
@andrew.46 You might want to upvote this answer as well? – Anwar Nov 05 '16 at 15:23
@Anwar Looks like I did quite some time ago :) – andrew.46 Nov 05 '16 at 18:41
@andrew.46 but the only vote I see is mine :) – Anwar Nov 05 '16 at 18:47
@Anwar I see 2 up and 1 down? – andrew.46 Nov 05 '16 at 18:50
@andrew sorry for bothering you. I should have checked the counts. – Anwar Nov 05 '16 at 20:19
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@Anwar No problems! This solution (that I helped create!) I have been using on irssi ever since this time :) – andrew.46 Nov 06 '16 at 02:17
Note from the future: [`bell_beeps` was removed entirely](https://github.com/irssi/irssi/issues/524) because it is considered useless (it allows people in the channel to make your terminal beep by sending ^G in chat, which is rarely what you want). – Kevin Mar 26 '18 at 17:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '20 at 18:07

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You just need to set the beep level to CTCP or ALL if you like: /set beep_msg_level CTCP The ping requests are CTCP level.

answered Aug 10 '20 at 18:07

avisihag

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