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Pidgin - Facebook chat plugin
I'm a proud new owner of an N900, installed Pidgin from extras and enabled extras-testing and extras-devel
Searched for facebookchat-plugin for pidgin and its nowhere to be found? I tried downloading from the google code page and putting it in /usr/lib/pidgin and ~/.purple/plugins and it still doesn't appear - any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? Cheers |
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Found this:
http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...1.60-1.1maemo0 But can't seem to get the deb file to install via x-term or in red pill mode. also tried getting it from google code page and no luck. would love to try and get this working cause can't seem to chat using the browser when connected to 3.5g |
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I don't have a N900 so i can't try it but I know it needs json-glib 0.7.6 or above. Its in extras-devel.
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...emo1_armel.deb Install it and see if it works now. |
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Still no luck can't get it to install. Says incompatible package or something like that. I'll just have to wait till someone hopefully get round to making an app or something easier to install
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You would need to install json-glib in xterm using dpkg -i. Once you have done that download latest plugin from
http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecod...ookarm-1.64.so and place in /usr/lib/purple-2/ should work after that. |
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yep it works cheers!
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Any novice-friendly step-by-step instructions for this utility?
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Installed json-glib and it works like a charm, thanks!
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yeah noob friendly step by step guide to installing this would be great
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oh yeah just a quick one
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I will try my best but I don't have a N900 so might not get it right.
Download file from following link http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...emo1_armel.deb Go into xterm, change directory to the directory you saved above file to. You now need to become root (not sure how on a N900 but search on this forum and you should be able to find it). Type dpkg -i libjson-glib-1.0-0_0.8.0-1maemo1_armel.deb Now download following file http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecod...ookarm-1.64.so and place in /usr/lib/purple-2/. Thats it. You can also add the Facebook icon to make it all look pretty. Download following file http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecod...book_icons.zip Unzip and place icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols |
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Darren, the file you've linked to isn't the correct one (at least it didn't work for me) I downloaded this one
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...emo1_armel.deb and installed using dpkg |
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Yikes. Kind of scared of messing around in/as Root.
I guess i will wait for a simplex installer. Does this intergrate neatly into the contacts and convos apps? |
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+ 1 for query about intergration into conversations, or is this a port for the plug in TO pidgin? Just curious before I go messing :)
EDIT: sorry guys, should've done more googling. didn't realise it was solely for pidgin. would love to see some facebook chat intergration into contacts though! :) |
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I am new to maemo and linux ... im ok with computers though so i would like to learn some of the stuff i can do like this as i would like to have facebook chat linked into pidgeon chat as all my friends use facebook.
can anyone help me out on a couple of points with this tutorial darren has done??? Go into xterm, change directory to the directory you saved above file to. HOW DO I CHANGE DIRECTORY? You now need to become root (not sure how on a N900 but search on this forum and you should be able to find it). WHAT DOES 'BECOME ROOT MEAN AND HOW DO I DO IT? and place in /usr/lib/purple-2/. I HAVE LOOKED AT THE STORAGE ON MY N900 (THROUGH CONNECTING TO MY PC AND EXPLORING FOLDERS ON N900 THROUGH MY PC) AND CANT FIND A FOLDER NAMED USR? |
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hmmmm
sounds a bit scary ..... i might wait for someone to create an app or addon for pidgin Thanks TNiga |
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Hello there, Maemo community!
As a Communicator user since the dawn of time, I've now replaced my E90 with a N900. I miss the keyboard and the raisable display, but otherwise N900 is a nice little piece. This is my debute in the Maemo community. Say hi. Anyway, now I've finally managed to get Facebook Chat to work as a plugin to the built-in Contacts/Conversations. As a bonus, I also got MySpace IM to work. I did it without any coding, just editing or adding configuration entries and files (using other haze plugins as templates). Below is how I did it. The summary does not include basic Linux things like how to traverse the filesystem, how to edit files, how to gain root on N900 and similar. If you don't already know how to do those things, you're probably better off waiting for the protocols to be packaged and added to a repository. And if you know how to do those things, I'm sure that you also know how to make a backup (and how to reflash your phone). You've been warned. There seems to be a lot of text below, but most of it is cut'n'paste, so use scp or ftp to transfer the files to a computer (with a real keyboard) for easier editing. 1. Download and install the Json package .deb required by the Facebook plugin (couldn't find it in any repository) as mentioned earlier in this thread. 2. Download the Facebook plugin from http://pidgin-facebookchat.googlecod...ookarm-1.64.so and put it in /opt/maemo/usr/lib/purple-2/ (Files for MySpace is already in place, but not enabled in the config files for some reason.) 3. Put a symlink to /opt/maemo/usr/lib/purple-2/libfacebookarm-1.64.so in /usr/lib/purple-2/ 4. Edit the file /usr/share/telepathy/managers/haze.manager and add the following sections: Code:
[Protocol facebook] Code:
[Profile] Code:
[Profile] Code:
[haze/facebook/yourname_40yourdomain_2eyourtld0] 8. Create the following directories, make them all owned by user:users and chmod them all to drwx------: Code:
/home/user/.rtcom-accounts/haze/facebook 9. Reboot Notes: 1. §7 and §8 might not be needed. After §6, the GUI for adding accounts recognized Facebook and MySpace, but the sign in button didn't work (it got grey and nothing happened). So I added the accounts the hard way. It still didn't work. So I rebooted, and then it worked. It might be that the reboot is enough, and after that you might be able to add accounts using the GUI. 2. I'm not sure that all the configuration entries above are actually doing what they seem to be doing. But I know that they all combined made the plugins work. Issues: 1. The Facebook plugin only see online friends. But when your friends go offline, at least they stay in your address book (marked as offline). So after you and your friend have been online simultaneously once, they're in there (at least if you merge them or give them a firstname/lastname). Which, by the way, is the same behavior as in Pidgin on a PC, and I believe it's a Facebook Chat limitation. 2. I have 14 MySpace friends, but I only see 8 of them. They're all offline, so it's not for online/offline reasons. It might be due to the other 6 having IM disabled or something? 3. There are no advanced settings for the MySpace account The server and port settings in the configuration entries above aren't there (the view is empty after tapping the advanced settings button). I don't know where I found those two settings, but I remember that it was in some already existing file on the N900. The Facebook advanced settings configuration entries above are taken from the GUI after I got that part working (I just replaced spaces with dashes and made them all lowercase), so no promises that they do what they say.. 4. Avatars don't work for MySpace (Facebook avatars and statuses work fine). I have not tested chatting yet (no, it's true!), so all I know is that the above made my friends appear in the address book, and I can merge them with their existing address book entries. At least that means my N900 address book and Facebook/MySpace can understand eachother to some degree. The above is taken from my memory. I don't trust my memory, so you should neither. I might have forgot something, or got something wrong. But if you like screwing things up (like me), go ahead and try the above. Regards /P |
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Oh. forgot:
10. Put icons (48x48 pixels PNG files) in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/ and name them im-facebook.png and im-myspace.png /P |
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Now I've tested to actually use the stuff. Someone sent me a message. I got the message. I replied to the message. I got disconnected. It reconnected automatically. I got the same message again. I replied again. I got disconnected.
The above happened about ten times, but then suddenly it started to work. We talked for a while, and everything worked fine. But now I have trouble using the ordinary Facebook chat and some other Facebook features in Firefox on my laptop. Going offline on the phone makes it work on the laptop again. I've seen the same behavior using the same plugin in Pidgin on a PC (or it might've been some other IM client with some other Facebook plugin). |
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According to http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-face...ki/FuturePlans, their thingy supports grabbing birthdays from Facebook. Anyone know how to get that into their birthday fields in the address book? I guess it should be added to capabilities in the profile file, but what is the name of the capability?
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apt-get install libjson-glib-1.0-0 http://maemo.org/packages/ is a good place to see what's available in the repositories. |
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Lord Awesome: Maybe I installed it that way. It wasn't to be found in App Manager, however.
B10: Yup, Hermes does that (although it mixes up people with identical names), but with working Facebook and Twitter plugins to Contacts that can fill in the details, Hermes becomes obsolete. |
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Also, after rebooting, already merged contacts showed up as independent contacts again (with "availability dots"). The merged contacts still had their Facebook IM accounts in their info (but without the "availability dots"). Remerging them did not create duplicate Facebook IM fields, and the "availability dot" returned to the merged contact (i.e. everything looked fine again). I will return with what happens with the remerged contacts after my next reboot. |
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I merged a bunch of new ones, and remerged a bunch of the reappeared ones. When some of the former remergers gets online, I'll reremerge a couple of them too. Then I'll reboot, and see what happens with the different iterations. Merging the MySpacers seems to work fine (they don't reappear as independent MySpace contacts, and the MySpace IM fields of the merged contacts keep their "availability dots" (do those dots have a common accepted name?). I haven't seen any of my 8 MySpace IM friends online since I got it working. In fact, I think I've never seen any of them online in any IM client on any platform ever. Maybe we've got some daring musicians here, with hundreds of active MySpace friends, that can do some MySpace testing? /P |
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this works great I needed this.
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A few days ago, a new version of pidgin-facebookchat was packaged for Maemo. Anybody tried that one? http://maemo.org/packages/view/pidgin-facebookchat/
/P |
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I installed it, and checked it out in Packageview. Apparently it only installed libfacebook.so in /usr/lib/purple-2/ and some docs/icons, nothing more. No manager or profile stuff.
Now, I have both 1.63 and 1.64 versions in /usr/lib/purple-2/. Since I nowhere in the config files tell it which one to use, I don't know which version it is using now. Anyway, I doubt that it matter regarding the merging problem, but I'll move 1.64 out of there and see if it makes any difference. |
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@Palleman if you could get this in a working package up on the repo. you'd get a lot of attention :P lots of help I'd bet too. I'm useless though, I'm happy to use unstable software, report bugs and flash my device if necessary but I don't have any coding skills. my fault I guess.
anywho I'm backing this 100% of the way! |
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I removed the libfacebook.so (i.e. the 1.63 version from the devel repository), since it made the Facebook contacts appear as their Facebook ID's and not their names. So, I'm using the 1.64 version downloaded from the pidgin-facebookchat web site. I also did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, which updated a bunch of packages (although App Manager told me there was nothing to upgrade). Among the packages were a couple of Telepathy and Haze related ones. After a reboot, I rerereremerged a couple of Facebook contacts, and rebooted again. They're still merged. So hopefully the merging problem is solved.
The apt-get upgrade also solved ICQ (haven't been online for a couple of weeks) and YIM/AIM problems ("network error", requiring reboot to get online). There's still some problem. Going Availability -> Facebook -> Advanced settings show up an empty tab. To get to the advanced settings, I have to disable the account and then go Availability -> Accounts -> Facebook -> Advanced settings. And if I change anything, the changes don't stick when I save them. Going there again, even if going all the way out first, shows the same settings as before I changed something. I think it's because my guess about the settings syntax was wrong (see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39331&page=3#26 ). I'll change that, and see if it makes any difference. MySpace: Still noone to talk to. Anyone here having a MySpace account, so I can test it? Nathanielsametz: I don't know how to make packages and upload them to the repository. I might look into it though, or ask the pidgin-facebookchat-packager to package a conversation/contacts version too. |
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Once you're confident with that process it's a case of setting up a garage account, requesting upload access and waiting. Although asking the pidgin-facebookchat maintainer to merge your work with their efforts is probably easier. Keep at it. :) |
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Lord Awesome: I sent an email to Jonny Lamb. |
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i hope to c this so soon as i am so new to Linux and for me it is kinda complicated to do all this commands and as fb chat is so important 2 me and i luv how it can be integrated into the conversations contacts i hope to c it at the respo soon
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Managed to get facebook set up in contacts, manged to get online, see other people online, and merge contacts seems fine, but having problems chatting. My friends don't seem to receive messages, and any messages i receive seem to getting received over and over agian.
I also find that when using the facebook plugin with pidgin there seems to be like a 50/50 chance that the message will b sent or received. |
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TonyUK99: I had the same problem (see earlier post), but suddenly it started to work. After that, it has happened a couple of more times, but always temporary. Facebook Chat on N900 also keeps logging me out of the browser Facebook on whatever computer I'm at for the moment, and sometimes the other way around.
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Update your IM plugins, people. Facebook Chat is now included in v0.8 of the IM protocol plugins! Congrats to Collabora!
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