source: skype/README @ f78f949

= Skype plugin for BitlBee
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>

== How to set it up

Before you start. The setup is the following: BitlBee can't connect directly to
Skype servers (the company's ones). It needs a running Skype client to do so.
In fact BitlBee will connect to `skyped` (a tcp server, provided in this
package) and `skyped` will connecto to your Skype client.

NOTE: The order is important. First you have to start Skype. Then `skyped` can
connect to it, finally BitlBee can connect to `skyped`.

- You need the BitlBee bzr branch:

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bzr branch http://code.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/
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- You need to enable plugin support:

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http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-configure-plugins.patch
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- To be able to do an install-dev:

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http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-makefile-headers.patch
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- Now compile and install it:

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./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install install-dev
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- Get the plugin code:

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git clone http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/bitlbee-skype
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- Compile and install it:

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make
cp skype.so /usr/lib/bitlbee
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- Start skyped (the tcp server):

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python skyped.py
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NOTE: It's important to start skyped on the same machine and using the same
user as you run Skype as it uses the session DBus for communication!

- Start your IRC client, connect to BitlBee and add your account:

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account add skype <user> <pass>
account set 0/server localhost
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IMPORTANT: <user> should be your skype account name. This way you won't see
yourself joining to `&bitlbee`.

NOTE: the <pass> option is not used currently.

== What works

- Download nicks and away statuses from Skype

- Noticing joins / parts while we're connected

- Sending messages

- Receiving messages

- Receiving away status changes

- `skyped` (the tcp daemon that is a gateway between Skype and tcp)

- Error handling when `skyped` is not running and when it exits

- Marking received messages as seen so that Skype won't say there are unread messages

- Adding / removing contacts

== What needs to be done (aka. TODO)

- detect when somebody wants to add us (confirm callback)

- Due to some API limitations, I have no idea how to change status. This affects:
  * When you `/away`, Skype will be still show `Online`
  * When you `account off`, Skype will not set status to `Offline`
  * When you `account on`, Skype will not set status to `Online`

== I would like to have support for ...

If something does not work and it's not in the TODO section, then please contact me!

== Known bugs

- Sometimes when you get a lot of messages in a short time, some of the
  messages are dropped. This is a known bug in Skype itself as of version
  1.4.0.99
  (http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=94545&view=findpost&p=431710[link]).

== Screenshots

You can reach some screenshots http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/shots/bitlbee-skype/[here].

== Changelog

You can reach the Changelog link:Changelog[here].

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