Hi Eion,
Thanks, the hangouts plugin worked. I had a bit
of trouble with the auth, because the dialog from
Pidgin took me to a page Google said I didn't
have access to. But it did eventually work - I
think I needed to be signed into my Google account in the browser first.
Thanks again,
Cheers,
Adrian.
At 08:57 AM 22/08/2016, Eion Robb wrote:
Hi Adrian,
If you want to use Hangouts over XMPP, you'll
need to enable "less-secure apps" settings in
your Google security settings, otherwise you can
switch to the Hangouts plugin atÂ
<https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts>https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts
which uses OAuth to login.
Cheers,
Eion
On 22 August 2016 at 08:58, Adrian Ball
<<mailto:adr...@perkinstechnologies.com.au>adr...@perkinstechnologies.com.au>
wrote:
Hi Shlomi,
I did try using XMPP to connect to my Google
account, but Pidgin tells me 'Authorization
failed' and I get an email from Google telling
me 'Someone just tried to sign in to your Google
Account
<mailto:adrian...@gmail.com>adrian...@gmail.com
from an app that doesn't meet modern security
standards.' Is there a trick to getting it to
work? Or any advanced settings needed? I tried
selecting both the 'XMPP' and 'Google Talk'
options in the Pidgin account setup, but Google
Talk appeared to revert to XMPP anyway, and
neither would connect. I do have 'Require
Encryption' set on the advanced tab, and did try
changing that to SSL but then I got 'SSL connection failed'. Any ideas?
Also, you recommend using XMPP as an
alternative. But I assume that needs a server
somewhere? Which one would you recommend? Maybe <http://jabber.org>jabber.org?
Regards,
Adrian.
At 10:01 PM 20/08/2016, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Adrian,
On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:16:59 +1000
Adrian Ball
<<mailto:adr...@perkinstechnologies.com.au>adr...@perkinstechnologies.com.au>
wrote:
> Hi Eion,
> Excellent! Thanks for that. It looks like the new
> protocol is a bit short on functionality so far
> though. No buddy list or buddy status will be
> painful, the way I use Messenger. :-( Might have
> to look for a new protocol to use. Even Google Talk is dead now too!
Well, Google Talk/Google Chat was recently rebranded as "Google Hangouts" and
I'm using Pidgin to speak using it without any major problems using Google's
XMPP interface.
Some other alternatives are:
1. XMPP - open source and standard and distributed.
2. Facebook - see
<https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook>https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook
. Works pretty well
in Pidgin.
Regards,
    Shlomi Fish
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