Originally Posted by masonos

Ah now i understand what you mean. Don't think this is the function of autodl-irssi. It's job is to join the announce channel. For idling on other channels you might use an IRC client

I think I have already tried that and when I log into my mirc client it tells me the nick is already in use. So can't be logged in autodl-irssi and my irc client at the sametime unless you know another option.