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Forum for English speaking Miranda NG users => Support/Help => Topic started by: flvinny521 on 16 09 2015, 19:44:01

Title: Control/use Miranda NG remotely?
Post by: flvinny521 on 16 09 2015, 19:44:01: I'd like to install Miranda on my always-on server at home and connect to it from a remote PC where I don't have permissions to install applications. Can this be done? It looks like there was a plugin for Miranda IM to do this, but it's no longer hosted and doesn't look like it was working anyway.

Edit: Ideally, the plugin would provide a web interface that I can connect to via DDNS from outside my LAN. The added benefit would be one location storing all my chat history.
Title: Re: Control/use Miranda NG remotely?
Post by: AnrDaemon on 17 09 2015, 01:44:38: You can use Miranda on an USB stick. It defaults to portable install out of the archive.
Title: Re: Control/use Miranda NG remotely?
Post by: flvinny521 on 17 09 2015, 19:31:24: I could try that, but I'm supposed to avoid using personal USB sticks on this computer as well. If worse comes to worse I might be able to make it work, but really the main benefit I was looking for over Trillian (which I use now) would be combining all my chat history in the one client. Trillian is supposed to sync between interfaces (Windows, web, Android, etc), but in practice, it doesn't work so smoothly. Thanks for the suggestion.
Title: Re: Control/use Miranda NG remotely?
Post by: Robyer on 17 09 2015, 21:08:49: flvinny521, I like the idea of remote use/control of Miranda as it opens ability to have Miranda for Android or also just for web. So I created an idea on our UserVoice to not forget it.

http://miranda-ng.uservoice.com/forums/250387-general/suggestions/6133785-web-android-client-as-remote-control-of-miranda

But there wasn't any dev interested to write it here yet :) In Miranda IM there was I think some script for mBot, that was doing so - or do you mean some special plugin?
Title: Re: Control/use Miranda NG remotely?
Post by: AnrDaemon on 18 09 2015, 01:01:17: Quote from: flvinny521 on 17 09 2015, 19:31:24
I could try that, but I'm supposed to avoid using personal USB sticks on this computer as well. If worse comes to worse I might be able to make it work, but really the main benefit I was looking for over Trillian (which I use now) would be combining all my chat history in the one client. Trillian is supposed to sync between interfaces (Windows, web, Android, etc), but in practice, it doesn't work so smoothly. Thanks for the suggestion.
Any remote control would have to be a program as well. Why not just use program?…
Title: Re: Control/use Miranda NG remotely?
Post by: flvinny521 on 18 09 2015, 02:28:56: Quote from: AnrDaemon on 18 09 2015, 01:01:17
Any remote control would have to be a program as well. Why not just use program?…

I was thinking more on the terms of a web interface that would allow me to read/reply to messages simply by navigating to a pre-assigned port on my home computer and logging in with a username/password, similar to how it's done with modern torrent or usenet clients, among other things.
Title: Re: Control/use Miranda NG remotely?
Post by: flvinny521 on 18 09 2015, 02:30:40: Quote from: Robyer on 17 09 2015, 21:08:49
In Miranda IM there was I think some script for mBot, that was doing so - or do you mean some special plugin?

I think that script had been replaced with a standalone plugin, although I never used it and may be mistaken. I had switched to Trillian long ago and I'm not all that familiar with Miranda NG or IM.