Comments on: google_talk_sms pidgin plugin

By: rjb

rjb — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:20:02 +0000

Thank you for this plugin and thanks to all for the help with Windows. Just confirmed working with latest Windows Pidgin 2.10.1 after down-rev'ing Perl to Strawberry 5.10 and then removing " sms-v2" as instructed in the previous comments.

thanks again to all!

By: taylor

taylor — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:27:57 +0000

just like LS said on 05/24/2011 (http://snarfed.org/google_talk_sms_pidgin_plugin#comment-40646)

It works! But I needed to change ” sms-v1 sms-v2″ to ” sms-v1″. Before doing that I kept getting the “sorry we don’t support … through this client…”

My only problem now is that gmail doesnt save these chats- it saves normal ones but not SMS ones. Might be because I do everything through gmail chat and not through googletalk. Oh well. Great plugin thanks!

By: Dale Rodriguez

Dale Rodriguez — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:21:20 +0000

@Nibras thank you, those tips worked for me.

By: Ch333

Ch333 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:53:48 +0000

Thanks @Nibras for the tips on how to make this work with Windows. I got it up and working in 2 minutes with your help.

Now I have another question. I can IM my mobile back and forth, but I can't get it to show up online. I only get the "Not Authorized" message from Pidgin. (I've added my mobile as "+1xxxxxxxxxx@sms.talk.google.com")

Can anyone else tell me what I am doing wrong? I would like my mobile to show up as online (permanently) if at all possible.

Thanks

By: Nibras

Nibras — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:49:58 +0000

A lot of people seem to have trouble with this plugin on Windows.

Here’s the way to do it.

1) You should install Perl 5.10. 5.12 is not compatible with Pidgin. 5.10 is not available for free from ActivePerl. So, you can get Strawberry Perl 5.10 from http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html (download: http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.10.1.4/strawberry-perl-5.10.1.4.msi)

2) You should update environmental variables. You can simply achieve this by restarting. Or, you should go and modify the environment variables. The installer changes relevant variable but changes don’t take effect immediately. But, when you change environment variable manually, changes take effect immediately.

3) Copy your Perl script to Documents and Settings/user_name/Application Data/.purple/plugins

4) Restart Pidgin if it was running. Activate your plugin from Pidgin and restart Pidgin.

That’s it. Now, the plugin works.

Thanks again for your work, Ryan.

By: Ch333

Ch333 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:16:59 +0000

Thanks for the great plug-in.

Where do I put this in Win7? I'm running ActivePerl (x86) and version 2.10.0. I've put it everywhere and can't get it to show up in my plugin directory.

Anyone else know?

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:34:46 +0000

@binki, packaging it sounds great, thanks!

embedding the version number in an individual filename would be problematic for a few different reasons, which is why you don't see many projects do it.

for this file, the version is in the %PLUGIN_INFO structure near the top. i can also add it to the file comment, along with a changelog, in the future. hopefully that will help!

By: binki

binki — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:34:27 +0000

ryan, may you please version the script download (like sms_pidgin_plugin-0.2.pl) so that it may be more easily packaged?

Thanks.

By: nutty

nutty — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:35:25 +0000

All,

I'm new to linux and I don't know if my question is dumb one.

Can someone shows how to put the .pl file to plugin directory? I'm using mint 11. I can't seem to find the folder.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:59:44 +0000

Confirmed, this still works on 11.04 with Pidgin 2.7.11 as LS says.