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1= Skype plugin for BitlBee
2Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
3
4== Status
5
6One day I browsed the BitlBee bugtracker and found
7http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/ticket/82[this] ticket. Then after a while I
8returned and saw that it's still open. So I wrote it. Not a big deal, I wrote
9it in two days or so (and not because I'm a genius or anything ;-) ). I think
10it's pretty stable, but it needs wider testing. Also see the 'Known bugs'
11section, I really hope those random hangups will be fixed soon by Skype.
12
13== How to set it up
14
15Before you start. The setup is the following: BitlBee can't connect directly to
16Skype servers (the company's ones). It needs a running Skype client to do so.
17In fact BitlBee will connect to `skyped` (a tcp server, provided in this
18package) and `skyped` will connecto to your Skype client.
19
20NOTE: The order is important. First you have to start Skype. Then `skyped` can
21connect to it, finally BitlBee can connect to `skyped`.
22
23- You need the BitlBee bzr branch:
24
25----
26bzr branch http://code.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/
27----
28
29- You need some additional patches:
30
31----
32http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-configure-plugins.patch
33http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-global-conf-may-be-null.patch
34http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-makefile-headers.patch
35http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-more-verbose-on-plugin-errors.patch
36----
37
38(Yes, I submitted all of them to the
39http://bugs.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/[bugtracker] already.)
40
41- Now compile and install it:
42
43----
44./configure --prefix=/usr
45make
46make install install-dev
47----
48
49- Get the plugin code:
50
51----
52git clone http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/bitlbee-skype
53----
54
55- Compile and install it:
56
57----
58make
59cp skype.so /usr/lib/bitlbee
60----
61
62- Start skyped (the tcp server):
63
64----
65python skyped.py
66----
67
68NOTE: It's important to start skyped on the same machine and using the same
69user as you run Skype as it uses the session DBus for communication!
70
71- Start your IRC client, connect to BitlBee and add your account:
72
73----
74account add skype <user> <pass>
75account set 0/server localhost
76----
77
78IMPORTANT: <user> should be your skype account name. This way you won't see
79yourself joining to `&bitlbee`.
80
81NOTE: the <pass> option is not used currently.
82
83== What works
84
85- Download nicks and away statuses from Skype
86
87- Noticing joins / parts while we're connected
88
89- Sending messages
90
91- Receiving messages
92
93- Receiving away status changes
94
95- `skyped` (the tcp daemon that is a gateway between Skype and tcp)
96
97- Error handling when `skyped` is not running and when it exits
98
99- Marking received messages as seen so that Skype won't say there are unread messages
100
101- Adding / removing contacts
102
103- Set away state when you do a `/away`.
104
105- When you `account off`, Skype will set status to `Offline`
106
107- When you `account on`, Skype will set status to `Online`
108
109- Detect when somebody wants to add you and ask for confirmation
110
111== What needs to be done (aka. TODO)
112
113== I would like to have support for ...
114
115If something does not work and it's not in the TODO section, then please contact me!
116
117== Known bugs
118
119- Sometimes when you get a lot of messages in a short time, some of the
120  messages are dropped. This is a known bug in Skype itself as of version
121  1.4.0.99
122  (http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=94545&view=findpost&p=431710[link]).
123
124== Screenshots
125
126You can reach some screenshots http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/shots/bitlbee-skype/[here].
127
128== Changelog
129
130You can reach the Changelog link:Changelog[here].
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