HexChat

Connecting

1. Open the network list (ctrl+s or HexChat > Network List)
2. Hit Add and name the network
3. Hit Edit
4. Add the server's address by clicking on the server list and hit enter to save it.
5. You can check the autoconnect option here if you prefer.
6. Check "Use SSL.." and "Accept invalid SSL" if you are using that (it's invalid because it is self-signed)
7. Uncheck "Use global user information" and fill in the username with username/network
8. Enter your password...
   1. For 2.9.6+ you must have "Server Password" for login method.
   2. Pre 2.9.6 just input into the Server Password field.
9. Hit Close to save your changes and then test it.

Troubleshooting

It does not connect.

If port 6697 is the SSL port, you need to specify the "+" before the port.

This is a failed attempt due to not specifying the "+"

 Connecting to my.bouncer.net (6697)
 Connected. Now logging in...
 Disconnected (Connection reset by peer)

Playback formatting

Timestamps

HexChat 2.9.6+ Supports the znc.in/server-time[-iso] capability, this means that all the timestamps will be the correct ones given by the server.

Scripts

Some events printed by the playback still won't look quite correct, to help this some scripts have been written to do extra formatting.

• Buffextras/XChat-perl
• Savebuff/XChat-Perl
• HexChat/Privmsg 2.9.6+