Allow Shell to connect to remote bot

[speeddemon8803]

As far as I can tell, the Shell only allows you to view a bot that the shell is also installed on, it would be great if you could remotely connect to the bot from another computer through the shell, somewhat like the DJ Software Package already does.

[Indy]

There are already a lot better and more secure ways of doing this. screen, VNC over SSH tunnel, etc.

[speeddemon8803]

What is the purpose of the shell, then?

[Indy]

It was made mainly because a few people wanted to be able to minimize the bot to the system tray and/or have an automatic way to keep the bot running under windows if someone shut it down or anything.

It doesn't send the bot console text over a socket or anything, the shell launches it and uses I/O redirection to read the bot output and display it in the text box.

[speeddemon8803]

Couldn't that be done with ibctl somehow? Documentation on this addon/program is lacking.

[Indy]

ibctl can do most of what the bot client can do, except things that require a persistent connection like accepting requests.