How to Chat with Friends using Termux 💬 - 2020

In this post, you are going to learn how you can chat with your friends as well as strangers using Termux. Now by the word chatting I mean only texting and not sending images and emojis. You will chat using your termux terminal as you see in hacking movies.

If you want to chat with your friend you can use Netcat also but in this post, we are using irssi package in termux. Irssi is an Internet relay chat client since 1999. With the help of this tool, you can chat with a group of people by joining a channel at number of available servers.
You can create your own channel(Group) on irssi which is completely free and your friends can join the same channel to chat with you. It is similar to a chat group on WhatsApp but the only difference is command-line based.

Install Irssi Chat in Termux:

Irssi chat is a Built-in Package in termux, you can install it like any other packages.

 pkg intsall irssi -y

It will take approximately one minute to install in termux , it also depends on your Internet Speed.

Use Irssi Chat in Termux:

Step 1:
Now to start Irssi Chat you just have to type irssi on your terminal and your IRC chat cline will open.

 irssi

Now, You will see this screen, which means Irssi chat is successfully installed in your Termux.

Step 2:
Now, You have to connect to a server in order to join a channel on IRC, Here I am joining Freenode but you can join other Servers too. Just type below command to join a Free node server.

 /connect Freenode

Step 3:
Now Your user name will look like u0_a234 Now If you join any Channel Now one will going to remember your name because it is gibberish. To Change Your Nickname to something Human Understandable You have to use this command

 /nick HaCk3r404

You can change any name you want, Just  Enter Your name After /nick.



Step 4:
Now everything is set you just have to join a channel if you want to chat with your friends you and your friends have to join the same channel if you want to create your own channel you can create it by just typing your channel name in the below command. You can chat with me by joining my channel on Freenode.

 /join #LearnTermux.tech

You can also Join random channels to talk with new people.
You can Type Exit to get back to your Terminal window and too Quit the irssi.



Step 5:
Now you can chat in your group and if you want your other friend to join your Group, Just let them know your channel name and they will easily able to join your channel.
just type your message and press Enter to send your text like you do in other Messaging app.

Send Colored Text in Irssi Chat in Termux:

Now you know how you can chat on irssi using termux but the problem you will face while texting on IRSSI is that you will see everyones text in the same colour which is white but what if you want to send some important text and you want everyone to you read it. Or what if you want to send some warning to everywhere in the channel. To highlight your message in some different colour you can use some command in IRSSI.

Send Blue Coloured Text In IRSSI:

You can use below command to send Blue colored message in IRSSI.

 CTRL+C2 Your-Messege-Here

You have To press CTRL+c and Then You have to press 2 without Giving Space and then type anything You want and it will be in Blue colour.

Send Diffrent Coloured Text In IRSSI:

Now in the above Example You can see that with just one single command You can Send Blue colored Text but what if you want to send red or green or any other color?so to change other colors after pressing control you just have to change the number like,

 CTRL+c3 Your-text-here

So in the Above code you just have to change the green part which is the number, if you type 3 you will se Green color and if you Type 4 You will se Red color ,Just keep increasing the numbers and you will se New colours.

Conclusion :

If you want to chat like a hacker or you want to use termux as your group chatting app you can use Irssi. It is fun to chat using CLI and no one will recognize what you are doing as compared to using WhatsApp because everyone knows you are texting when you open Whatsapp. If you want to chat with me you can connect to my channel #LearnTermux.Tech and maybe you can meet some termux users like you. If you have any questions just comment down below and as always thanks for reading, Stay Ethical.